What's Your Favorite Car From A Dead Brand?

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Nothing lasts forever, and that includes brands successful nan automotive marketplace. Unless you're talking about, like, nan Fords aliases Chevrolets of nan world, manufacturers travel and spell (and someday those will too). Case successful point; Packard, which was erstwhile truthful solidly spot successful nan automotive world it boasted one of nan largest manufacturing centers successful nan world, went belly up successful 1958 aft a disastrous merger pinch different dormant company, Studebaker. 

But we don't request to spell moreover that acold backmost successful nan past. It wasn't each that agelong agone that you could bargain a marque caller Saturn aliases Fisker, for instance. The past is littered pinch specified dormant companies, but that doesn't mean they didn't make awesome cars. Some were up of their time, immoderate faced and uphill economical conflict and immoderate conscionable didn't activity out. So what I want to cognize is, of these dormant car companies, which orphaned automobile is your favorite? 

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Look, I ne'er claimed to beryllium God's astir original girl; I'm conscionable a recovering hipster who loves a Saab 900 Turbo arsenic overmuch arsenic nan adjacent red-blooded car loving American of Swedish persuasion. (I'm not Swedish, but I do respect their activity successful nan mean of gummy.) It's thing to beryllium ashamed of. Was its 158-horsepower four-banger quick? No. Was it sporty pinch that 3-speed automatic? Lord, no. But it was undeniably beautiful and afloat of characteristic consecutive from nan factory. 

Saab had a agelong history of being bought and sold by companies that didn't really cognize what to do pinch it, which gave america immoderate of nan astir eclectic designs successful automotive history. While nan institution was founded to build combatant jets for nan Swedish Air Force, nan now defunct marque claims a overmuch broader history, reaching backmost to the Swedish shipyards of nan 1600s. Seems for illustration a agelong to me, but I excavation it anyway. Saab went distant acknowledgment to being owned by GM (a straight up serial slayer of brands) and sold to moreover shakier companies that fto nan marque dice out, but nan representation of these handsome vehicles lives connected successful our hearts. So let's perceive your favourite cars from long-gone brands.