Does one need to serve every category?

More and more car manufacturers are entering SUV and Minivan categories……highly profitable they are. Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac, GMC, Saturn, SAAB, Cadillac - all GM US brands offer multiple choices in SUV and Minivan categories. I wonder if GM could have benefited by a couple of brands serving these categories, instead of all competing.

Even Porsche could not resist……..

Inspiration!!

The top one is Toyota Solara and the bottom one is Pontiac G6. I wonder which one inspired the other..............

I came upon this car, which is currently in production. The looks of this car date back by a couple of decades!! but still can't beat Aztek below.

I don't believe this, do you??

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3158452/

There is a very good reason the nation’s auto showrooms are filling up with models that strike a lot of would-be buyers as just plain ugly. As it turns out, ugly sells.
Vehicles that make a mark with “extreme” styling — like the Chrysler PT Cruiser and Chevrolet Avalanche — move off the lot faster and generate a significantly higher profit margin than their plain-vanilla brethren, according to a study from J.D. Power and Associates...........

This is a Pontiac Aztek (same vehicle as below). It seems that the company gave a pot of money to a bunch of employees to design and manufacture a cross-over!! no objective what-so-ever. What do you say?

What do you think of this design?

It works!! Great. I am sure we gona have lots of fun here. Wait...........

Hi, I am testing this new blog!

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