Good answers, but I have to fundamentally disagree.

Perhaps you should disregard TL:DR as an excuse and actually read.

Sometimes, death is preferable to being kept alive via artificial means. That holds true for car brands. Packard got caught with its’ pants down post WWII, and never caught up to the competition, and died as a Studebaker in drag. Not a really noble death, now is it? Rover died from an infection of British Leyland,…

At the risk of being a complete smart-ass, why would they want the advice of someone who has not purchased their product for 11 years?

Agreed. The last T-Bird was, at best, half-assed. They either should have gone full retro, aping either the 55 like they did on the front and roof, or the 62 bullet birds with the huge round taillights. But not both. They also could have just imagined something completely new, and that might have worked.

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Depends, but in Florida, you can ask the court to rescind the adoption.

Maybe I have been looking at this all wrong.

Well, there is a company in the UK building replica Speedsters (Chesil), and they have had at least one electrified. It was on a show on MotorTrend, Vintage Voltage (Electric Classic Cars is the shop), they showed the entire process, and it ended up around 40K pounds for the conversion on top of the speedster. Not…

Exactly, and exactly my point. Globalization is great in theory, but not in practical use. The markets all have different demands, and each home market for the separate companies will have issues in selling something that they did not design or manufacture directly.

Yes, VAG does that very well. But they have the luxury of spreading one platform across at least 4 brands, and all brands answer to one master, VAG. The alliance does not have that luxury. They could have (and should have) been sharing the oily bits already, but they don’t now and probably never really will. The…

But that shows how the alliance really never worked, and probably never truly will. The cars you mention were never going to be the best sellers, and the management team at Renault used Samsung for those models, not just either bringing over the equivalent Nissan or adapting it to be built in Europe. The Koleos was…

Neutral: How Bad Does Anyone Really Want A Renault?

If you are willing to shed a tear over this one, why not over another version of the story, but this time de Tomaso flirts with his old friend Iacocca and the bastard love child ends up being:

Good point, as saving a brand is not the same as saving the company.

I get what you are saying, but still, the idea that experts make decisions is better than goobers and idiots have the same say in the process, because here in America we think our stupid is equal to someone’s smart. A consensus based on intelligent people, schooled in the subject at hand, is worth a lot more than…

While I don’t think it the right decision, I get it. This is not the first successful model that underwent a name change from Kia. The Spectra became the Forte, and nobody really seemed to care, and sales stayed steady or increased. What I don’t want to see is the K5 name for our market, but rather another name that…

I think that is the problem with the truck guys. They seem to take it a lot more personally when anger towards them happens. A lot of the vitriol is towards the owner/driver of the truck, not the truck itself. Maybe it is due to privileged white guy syndrome, who knows. We can’t seem to separate the two like people do…

Fair enough, I also read your other response. My apologies for dumping you fully into the cesspit containing others who have no issue with complaining that trucks get a raw deal here but never say a peep about anyone bashing stuff they don’t like.

So a Miata is not a chick car? A small car is not just for weenies and losers? Really? And you don’t go online and chastise those people who say shit like that?