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Originally Posted by WildBillyT
Yeah, but I'm trying to be as objective as I can in this thread. It's easy to spout personal preference stuff about what they should have done in your opinion, or speculate sales numbers, or what cars were a cool idea, or what cars are fun to drive.
For example, the SSR was not a great seller and did nothing like it should well, but at least it got people looking into GM products because it was a cool idea.
I'm talking fall-flat-on-your-face stuff. Like didn't/barely worked properly, a royal pain to maintain, missed the target market by a mile, etc.
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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
SSR was neither a bad design or idea.
The term you are looking for is rebadging. Multi-platforming is a fantastic idea and something that GM lacked for a long time.
What 40k hybrid car?
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Originally Posted by Blacdout96
Can we please keep GM sympathiser's out of the thread?
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Cool, I get to quote myself.
SSR was around the same time as the Prowler (also a poor seller with retro styling) and the Thunderbird (same). They were all pushing the retro angle to see what people like. There was a purpose. Whether or not it accomplished what it needed to do can be debated. But it wasn't without some form of success.