RIP dead car brands
So farewell, then, Saab. Your Swedish cool, your quirks and quickness couldn't save you. You didn't make the end of 2011, and a 64-year-long career as a much-loved maker of distinctively Scandinavian motors finally conked out.
Sadly Saab is not alone. Many other brands have fallen by the wayside in recent times, whether the result of economic meltdown, changing fashions, or sheer mismanagement.
The last 15 years have been a particularly torrid time for American brands. No less than seven of them - Plymouth, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Mercury, Eagle, Saturn, Hummer - have been axed in that time.
So here are the 12 biggest brand casualties of the last 15 years. But be warned: with the world economy as it is, these may well not be the last...
I now drive for National Express who are Spanish owned and unfortunately go down the "Much Cheapness " route!
So the simplistic and dismissive explanation is to blame the person in office at that time and naively expect the next incumbent to behave differently instead of seeing the whole picture. This is exactly how the power behind those offices operates and perpetuates it's asset stripping of many nations.
There is only one solution that will deal with this issue and that is the prevention of that power from choosing the election candidates. It should be our choice but under the present system it is only a choice of those who are already chosen for us. The outcome is always the same.
So tell me george paley do you stll believe that such people have no control over our financial wellbeing
Yes I do!
The only thing they all do is act as puppets for the real power that controls the money. Anyone who tries to buck the system is quickly disposed of. Look at your true history not the propaganda that excuses their cowardice and traitorous behaviour - and I am talking about all parties and their leaders.
Thatcher, under orders, sold off a thousand times more national worth than mere gold.
Cameron is about to sell off our NHS and our road systems and if you calculate the profit margin that they will yeild it makes the gold sell-off pale into insignificance.
Watch carefully what is happening to Greece...it happened to us a long time ago.
Gordon Brown didn't give our gold away he sold it and the person who bought it set up the sale and crashed the price of gold just before it was auctioned. We were robbed by the same person who is robbing us at this very minute.
Gordon Brown, just like Cameron, had /has no control over our financial wellbeing.
Richard, If you have a degree in the subject then tell me who was responsible for the unreliable rust buckets that were the worst output that ever was produced from the motor industry? Who designed them and who overseered their production.
It certainly wasn't the shop floor nor was it the unions.
@goerge paly
I Do Know what I am On about I have a Degree in the Subject I read all the Left Wing Communist and General Idiot comments written on these pages often enough.
Whilst we are Still Allowed to have an Opinion, I feel Justified in putting it in writing, it is Not Libellous Salacious or in an way Misleading,
You Might Not Like IT but I do not like a lot of what is written Either.
THE REASON FOR THE DEMISE OF THE BRITISH CAR INDUSTRY WAS NOT THE FACT THAT WE ARE BAD AT RUNNING LARGE BUSINESSES IT WAS LARGELY DOWN TO THE LEFT WING /COMMUNIST UNIONS WHO DESTROYED THE INDUSTRIAL BASE OF THIS COUNTRY
GUESS WHAT THEY ARE STILL IN BUSINESS OF DOING THERE UPMOST TO RUIN THE REST OF THE UK
THEY AND THERE PUPPETS IN THE LIEBOUR PARTY WHO WANT MORE DOMINATION BY THE CORRUPT E.U WHO WANT TO COMPLETELY RUIN THIS COUNTRY





























