Drove My Chevrolet to the Levee

Now some GM spokesperson was 'apologizing' on the radio for ruffling feathers, with the memo.

No need to apologize. I think we'd be disappointed without at least one weekly piece of goofy GM news.
 
Well, even the best corporate ideas have to start from somewhere/someone. I'm sure this was the brainchild of one very high powered exec and all his yes men agreed with it. I'd like to know who the bonehead was?
 
Part of the wonder of corporate decision-making is that the boneheads get to remain largely anonymous.

Until it's time to find a scapegoat.
 
And now the rocket-scientist who made this campaign his baby will fire his assistant, who likely tried to discourage the "no-Chevy" concept in the first place.
 
Sorry, it's Beemer, to me.

When I was a little kid I thought it stood for 'British Motor Works...'

This is of course before I learned about the horrors that the British auto industry gained fame, for producing...
 
Ahrghhh! OLDS! an other abbreviation.

No wonder they went belly up when people show no respect and only use those shortcuts. :laugh:

Frank
 
I'd say that in the specific case of Oldsmobile, the product received just about exactly the right amount of respect...
 
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