Don Vito Corleone
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The Aztek is undergoing a drastic redesign for its second year of production (this is monstrously expensive for GM and almost without precedent).
Apparently GM's sales goal for the first year of production was 70,000 units, and to date there are about 7,300 on the open road. This would be bad enough, but consider that roughly 2,500 of these are being driven by GM executives who are forced to drive them to generate public interest in the car! Essentially GM has sold roughly 7% of their annual targeted sales for the vehicle to date!
The Aztek is, to me, not that much less appealing than any other Pontiac (I know some people like raw performance wrapped in weird ribbed cladding with a rattly, plasticky interior full of light-grey knobs and switches, but not me), but it is really sad to see GM losing its shirt on this monstrosity. I imagine, on the bright side, it is basically mechanically sound, and one could probably pick one up for a song. The black ones actually do not look as horrid as the rest of the colors, because the cladding does not contrast as much.
Apparently GM's sales goal for the first year of production was 70,000 units, and to date there are about 7,300 on the open road. This would be bad enough, but consider that roughly 2,500 of these are being driven by GM executives who are forced to drive them to generate public interest in the car! Essentially GM has sold roughly 7% of their annual targeted sales for the vehicle to date!
The Aztek is, to me, not that much less appealing than any other Pontiac (I know some people like raw performance wrapped in weird ribbed cladding with a rattly, plasticky interior full of light-grey knobs and switches, but not me), but it is really sad to see GM losing its shirt on this monstrosity. I imagine, on the bright side, it is basically mechanically sound, and one could probably pick one up for a song. The black ones actually do not look as horrid as the rest of the colors, because the cladding does not contrast as much.
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