Thread Proposal: Another Car Company to save

Which Car Company Do You Want Saved?

  • Ford

    Votes: 2 10.5%
  • AMC

    Votes: 10 52.6%
  • British Leyland

    Votes: 7 36.8%

  • Total voters
    19

kernals12

Banned
I've done a nice thread here where I stop GM's implosion through rational decisionmaking. So I thought, which car company should I do next?
 
AMC. Got to somehow keep Nash and Hudson alive. Ford, on the other hand, is home to derivative / copycat styling and engineering and hanging on to obsolete technology too long: see, for example, the retention of strictly mechanical brakes until 1938, long after everyone else, even the dying marques, had gone hydraulic, or the retention of pre-war styling through 1948. That was largely a legacy of the old man letting everyone else do the heavy lifting for him, which he copied in knockoff form. To be sure, Ford got it right once in a while (Thunderbirds in the '50s; Mustang) but for the most part their offerings are dime-a-dozen fodder for rodding/modifiying.
 

kernals12

Banned
How about Mitsubishi? Considering how sad they are right now, I'd say that they desperately need help.
Maybe they could go the Subaru route. If you're hoping that the 3000GT, Eclipse, and Lancer Evolution can come back, you'll be sadly disappointed.
 

kernals12

Banned
AMC. Got to somehow keep Nash and Hudson alive. Ford, on the other hand, is home to derivative / copycat styling and engineering and hanging on to obsolete technology too long: see, for example, the retention of strictly mechanical brakes until 1938, long after everyone else, even the dying marques, had gone hydraulic, or the retention of pre-war styling through 1948. That was largely a legacy of the old man letting everyone else do the heavy lifting for him, which he copied in knockoff form. To be sure, Ford got it right once in a while (Thunderbirds in the '50s; Mustang) but for the most part their offerings are dime-a-dozen fodder for rodding/modifiying.
My POD of AMC was going to be 1970, I would kill off the Pacer, the costs of which, due to an inability to share parts with other AMC models, swallowed the company whole. I would also kill off all passenger car production and focus solely on Jeeps. There's no way to save Nash and Hudson, not with extensive competition from the Big 3. As for Ford, how could you ignore stuff like the Focus, Falcon, Taurus, Explorer, Fusion, F-Series, and Lincoln Continental?
 
Went BL but no for Austin, Morris or Rover, but i’d go for Triumph.
2018,
Spitfire - nice wee two litre twin-cam, 4x4 two seater roadster. Mid 70’s the 2.0 DOHC gave 125bhp, possible modern hybrid 160 horse, good for 0-60 is 6.5-7 sec, top end 135mph.
Stag 2+2 three litre quad-cam V8, 4x4 with 265 horse hybrid 0-60 in about 6 sec top end of 140-150MPH. Or a supercharged version with 345 bhp 5 sec to 60 & max speed 155MPH.
 

kernals12

Banned
Went BL but no for Austin, Morris or Rover, but i’d go for Triumph.
2018,
Spitfire - nice wee two litre twin-cam, 4x4 two seater roadster. Mid 70’s the 2.0 DOHC gave 125bhp, possible modern hybrid 160 horse, good for 0-60 is 6.5-7 sec, top end 135mph.
Stag 2+2 three litre quad-cam V8, 4x4 with 265 horse hybrid 0-60 in about 6 sec top end of 140-150MPH. Or a supercharged version with 345 bhp 5 sec to 60 & max speed 155MPH.
The market for affordable sports cars has been drying up for years. Triumph probably would probably be selling sports sedans and SUVs.
 

kernals12

Banned
One AMC concept I like is the 1967 Cavalier concept. The cool thing is that the fenders and doors are diagonally interchangeable as are the hood and trunklid. This reduces tooling costs.
1966-AMC-Cavalier-LR-colot.jpg
 

Kaze

Banned
How about Duesenberg Motors Company?

Duzenberg Company died because of the Great Depression - they spent too much on luxury cars.
How to save it? It would not be during the revival post-World War Two. The best way is the government in their infinite wisdom awards the Jeep contract to Duesenburg in 1928. With the Jeeps at the low end and the Doozy at the high-end - in theory it would save the company.
 

kernals12

Banned
How about Duesenberg Motors Company?

Duzenberg Company died because of the Great Depression - they spent too much on luxury cars.
How to save it? It would not be during the revival post-World War Two. The best way is the government in their infinite wisdom awards the Jeep contract to Duesenburg in 1928. With the Jeeps at the low end and the Doozy at the high-end - in theory it would save the company.
Did Duesenberg produce a Jeep prototype?
 
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