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It's easy to live here.
It's easy to live anywhere as long as you have those dependencies covered. Otherwise life can get real hard, real fast.
As long as you're not a pussy, you can easily live here, like most places.
This story won’t mention Walter White. Nor will it give glory to the pile-on that has declared the Pontiac Aztek the ugliest vehicle ever built. And it certainly won’t try to change anybody’s love/hatred of the Aztek; taste is subjective, after all. It will, however, attempt to explain how the Aztek came to stand out in the automotive marketplace and in subsequent automotive culture, for better or worse.
By the mid-1990s, GM had fallen into a torpor. The Roger Smith era, which ended with his retirement in 1990, left the company inflexible and ill-prepared to handle an increasingly dynamic automotive marketplace. Smith’s successor, Robert Stempel, rose through the ranks of GM from its engineering team and seemed to understand the product side of the business, but not the business side of the business, which left the company in the hands of John G. Smale and Jack Smith, both accomplished businessmen who came from Procter & Gamble and from GM’s planning and operations side, respectively.
Smale and Jack Smith, ready to turn GM around, turned their eye toward product in 1994. “Smale decided to bring the world’s biggest automaker a dose of the give-the-people-what-they-want ethic that had animated Smale’s old company, Procter & Gamble Co.,” Jonathan Weisman wrote for the Washington Post. “And what the people wanted was sexy, edgy and a bit off-key; in short, a head-turner.”
Specifically, as Bloomberg’s David Welch wrote, “GM wanted to prove it could transcend its engineering-dominated culture and design a hip, affordable vehicle for young buyers and move it quickly through a traditionally slow-moving bureaucracy.”
Out at GM’s West Coast Advanced Concept Center in Thousand Oaks, California, Tom Peters, then the director of the ACC, took Smale’s directive to his team, which was already investigating “active outdoor lifestyle” vehicles much like the Pontiac Stinger from a few years prior. As he told TFL, he asked his team, “What if you took a Camaro and a Blazer and put it in a blender?” and called the resulting The North Face jacket-inspired sporty all-wheel-drive people and gear hauler – based on drawings by Brigid O’Kane – the Bear Claw.
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