Rise and Shine --- Phillies alive, Saturn dead
Good Morning and welcome to a cool, crisp Thursday!
It really doesn't get old seeing the Phillies celebrate on the field. After all those years of having to watch the likes of Wally Ritchie, Gregg Jefferies and Von Hayes trot out there, seeing the Phillies win another division title is pretty nice. That's third straight and another trip to the playoffs.
Hey, even if they don't win the World Series again this year, the last few years have been pretty sweet.
Not so sweet, though, is GM's decision to kill their Saturn brand. Now, I don't know much about business (you can just ask my wife as I pay the bills), but from this point of view that decision doesn't make much sense.
I've owned enough cars over the years to know which ones are worth the money and which ones, frankly, aren't. While our Saturn wasn't the sleakest looking car on the road, there was never any trouble.
It ran until well over 100,000 miles. Then a window broke and it didn't seem worth it to replace a window on a car with over 100,000 miles.
Still, I've never heard one person with a bad word about their Saturn. What probably happened is they made the cars too good for their own good. If you don't have to keep going back to the dealer for repairs, where is the money being made.
So, once again, consumers are forced to take the brunt of the problem.
Need a quality car? Forget it. Buy our other models so you can keep coming back for repairs.
It's the American way.
Back to the good news, though. Remember this as the baseball playoffs start:
It really doesn't get old seeing the Phillies celebrate on the field. After all those years of having to watch the likes of Wally Ritchie, Gregg Jefferies and Von Hayes trot out there, seeing the Phillies win another division title is pretty nice. That's third straight and another trip to the playoffs.
Hey, even if they don't win the World Series again this year, the last few years have been pretty sweet.
Not so sweet, though, is GM's decision to kill their Saturn brand. Now, I don't know much about business (you can just ask my wife as I pay the bills), but from this point of view that decision doesn't make much sense.
I've owned enough cars over the years to know which ones are worth the money and which ones, frankly, aren't. While our Saturn wasn't the sleakest looking car on the road, there was never any trouble.
It ran until well over 100,000 miles. Then a window broke and it didn't seem worth it to replace a window on a car with over 100,000 miles.
Still, I've never heard one person with a bad word about their Saturn. What probably happened is they made the cars too good for their own good. If you don't have to keep going back to the dealer for repairs, where is the money being made.
So, once again, consumers are forced to take the brunt of the problem.
Need a quality car? Forget it. Buy our other models so you can keep coming back for repairs.
It's the American way.
Back to the good news, though. Remember this as the baseball playoffs start: