The Pontiac Aztek killed a car company.
The Pontiac Aztek killed a car company.
I remember the day at NUMMI where they posted the new vehicle that GM would build there. It was the Pontiac Vibe. The photo shown on our screen was in the same yellow and angle as below. Take about negative halo affect. The groans in the audience told everyone all they needed to know about how well that vehicle was going to sell.
When I worked for AT&T in the 1990’s we had a company meeting on the front lawn where the plant manager talked about all of the different challenges we faced from other, mostly foreign, manufacturers. I brought up the point that Microsoft had just come up with a product that let you make calls without using the phone company and asked if they were doing anything to address this. He pooh-poohed it as a gimmick that would never go anywhere because they owned the phone lines the Internet ran on. That plant, which employed over 7000 people at the time, is now closed.