Comments on: Autoblog and TS – a love-in

By: MJP99

MJP99 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:26:50 +0000

Why don’t they pay any attention to those other communities support for their marques? Because others weren’t so loyal for their marques as we?

By: Swade

Swade — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:35:42 +0000

I totally agree about why the Saab won. No problem. My main beef was with the post that introduced the result, which mentioned the nature of the vote, but failed to mention how good the car was, which I thought was a bit ungracious.

When it comes down to it, the online Saab community is very active and in this case they responded when their attention was drawn to the poll. Other marques also had their support (saw some posts on a Jag forum for the E-type) but numbers ruled the day.

Like they mention, the Jag would have likely been the winner if the vote was restricted to regular Autoblog readers only, but it wasn’t. And if doesn’t go that way then I think as the poll host they had a duty to not only explain the vote (which they did) but also pay some respect to the car that won if it was worthy of such respect (which it was).

I don’t think a beat up 1986 Saab 9000 would have garnered the same vote.

The one thing I’ve learned from all this is to post once about such polls and leave updates well enough alone.

Like I said, all water under the bridge now.

By: Erek

Erek — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:26:29 +0000

I don’t know, I kind of think the voting was unfair, because in the comments of posts during the whole affair, people kept on writing stuff like “I really really dig car X, but I voted for the saab (because it’s the saab and that’s what we are doing, trying to get it in first”. IMO, that is totally not cool.

By: MJL

MJL — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:44:38 +0000

I’ve got to say, Swade, I think autoblog’s comments are right on. The Saab won because of the support of the Saab community. But stop — isn’t that part of what’s so wonderful about driving a Saab? There’s a Sarah Silverman sketch where this guy in a Ford Focus pulls up next to her car and he goes “Hey! Same car!” Silverman contorts her face, sticks out her tongue, and mimicks him to point out what an idiot he’s being. With Saab, that “Hey, same car!” feeling is not only an integral part of owning a Saab, but even could draw you to the marque in the first place. It’s who we are!
That said, many people seem to believe that this means Saab could slap a griffin on jugged lutefisk and we’d pay twice as much as it’s worth. The 9-2X and 9-7X’s sales have proven that that’s not true. We love our cars not because they’re Saabs, but because they’re great.