Sometimes you bury pride and sell on price. Remember Ed Rooney, in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? He drove a government issue K-car. During the 1980s, the Plymouth K-car was what the government bought when it needed something basic. If you were lucky, it had a $79 AM radio. We heardMORE HERE
Detroit might get a bailout. But that won’t be any help for American car dealers, who are on their own. What’s a dealer to do in order to not go the way of the Rambler? First, dealers need to get through this crisis. But after that, they need to rethinkMORE HERE
Yes, they are talking about it. Read about the implosion at GM on our main blog. Meanwhile, a stunning Pontiac. Thank goodness for the car collectors. Visit our main site www.brandlandusa.com/ for in depth stories, including a discussion of the Tiger Woods/Buick divorce.MORE HERE
You read it here first. Not that we had that much to do with it. On our November 1, 2008 story What’s Wrong With Buick, we suggested that it was time that General Motors get rid of Tiger Woods as spokesman. General Motors and Woods came to a decision toMORE HERE
Looking at a 1950s Pontiac logo, we learned that the Indian theme disappeared in the 1950s. Perhaps it is time to bring it back, at least on some special editions, and honor Chief Pontiac. Visit our main site www.brandlandusa.com for in depth stories.MORE HERE
We hope Chrysler won’t go the way of the Rambler, but we fear it might be so. Rambler was, of course, a predecessor line of cars that was part of American Motors, and eventually dropped. They were ahead of their time because they were small. Read our diagnosis of problemsMORE HERE
Another disappeared brand of General Motors, the Oakland, seen here in an auto show in Sarasota. Oakland was one of the brands that was above Chevrolet in price, but below Oldsmobile and Buick. The company was a full division of GM; Oakland’s founder was Edward P. Murphy, who sold halfMORE HERE
Buick unveiled its Invicta concept car earlier this year. And now, GM is advertising the car in major magazines, along with its model lineup of Buick Lacrosse, Enclave and Lucerne. We wonder. Is it good? Is it Buick? Most importantly, we are wondering why are they advertising a car theyMORE HERE
Everyone in the whole entire world, except the pitiful board at General Motors, has been wondering for at least the last year or two how Rick Wagoner still has a job. But we were completely stunned at another figure connected to the Wagoner tenure. The Wall Street Journal reported todayMORE HERE
HOUSTON – Citgo is one of the great American gasoline brands. We get a hefty bit of nostalgia every time we see these any of the old brands. Here, a Citgo ad that ran in a recent national magazine here in Florida.Citgo, as everyone knows, was purchased by the stateMORE HERE