Mercury, Saturn, Pontiac, Plymouth, Mitsubishi. Plenty more, but those are off the top of my head.
Fun fact: GM will buy out a company, and to no surprise, it gets ruined. 😂
Delorean Motor Company.
I’d love to see a modern take on the classic Delorean. Something that isn’t a fugly ass cybertruck dorkmobile.
The Swedish Volvo and not the chinese Volvo. I feel like we would have had a power house for electric vhicles with Volvo. Now we are stuck with the French cars. Renault is doing really great. But isn’t Volvo. I feel like Saab would had gone Volkswagen as well, and come too late for the party and die out anyways. But they made good cars as well.
The Swedish Volvo died the day Ford took over, Geely is just there to trot around the remains.
Although, let’s be honest - Volvo had been on the verge of bankruptcy like three times before Ford bought them so it’s likely they would’ve died on their own too. Turns out making cars that are incredibly reliable is not a sustainable business model.
In Chinese Volvo’s defense they have built an entire manufacturing plant in South Carolina to build nothing but EVs, but the whole place is stuck in second gear.
International Harvester.
My dad had a Scout before I was born. I knew a guy with an international pickup truck that was indestructible.
I know the scout is coming back as an EV. But it seems to be a VW offshoot. So not really excited about that.
tram.
This is the way
I wish Ford had more regular cars in North America, they got rid of all except the Mustang
Bring back the crown Victoria!
SAAB, great looking cars with futuristic features!
SAAB is dead?? Damn
SAAB Automotive got killed by GM, resurrected by Spyker, subsequently killed again by debtors, resurrected again by Chinese investors who lost the rights to the brand, turned into NEVS (National Electric Vehicles Sweden), ran out of money again due to COVID, and has since been in “hibernation”/limbo. Most recently Stenhaga bought the remainder of the factory in Trollhättan, and EV Electra were considering to buy what’s left of the production models. That deal fell through and, last I heard of it, whatever is left of the NEVS were like 20 folks who got fired in 2024.
So yeah, to quote McCoy “He’s dead Jim”.
SAAB, the car you buy, because, um… …?
They would just last forever
Studebaker so we can bring back the jet engine nose style.
De Tomaso
Geo.
My Dad had a Geo Metro 5-speed that was getting 49 MPG in the 90’s. Bought it brand new for like 10k. Sure it was a 3 cylinder that went 0-60 in … eventually, but it’d be nice to be able to get that kind of mileage without paying out the nose for a hybrid.
My first car was a Geo Metro that I learned to drive in. One time I got pulled over and the cop claimed I was going 80mph and I told him I didn’t even think it could hit 80mph if you dropped it out of a plane. He decided against writing a ticket.
Volkswagen. Pre-2000s Volkswagen. In the 90s and earlier, their aircooled and watercooled cars were amazing junkyard tuners, that just wouldn’t die.
Pontiac
I always tell my wife that if they found a secret warehouse full of old Aztek parts and pumped some new ones out, I’d get one on the spot. I loved that car.
The tent add on would fly these days
I’m honestly kind of surprised Ford hasn’t re-released the Mercury or rebranded some cars as Mercury brand.
They weren’t good cars, but they had songs and brand appeal. And who knows, maybe somebody would think well of them.
That was one of the last old people brands, especially with the vinyl top.
Spyker.
Wilde het net zeggen
Someone already said SAAB so Mitsubishi
RIP Lancer Evo
only SUVs for you now
