Wrangle out of the clutching, greedy hands of marketing departements the names “Abarth” and “Cooper”, then give them to actual performance workshops working on bettering affordable cars.
SAAB, great looking cars with futuristic features!
I had a Saturn which was a really nice car except for all that stuff under the hood.
Maybe have an EV company buy the branding from it.
I asked a manufacturer how long it would take them to design and build one of my favorite cars and they said 6 months. I was surprised and asked, “Dat soon”. (Old Datsun joke)
Auburn
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.
Still don’t know why, but the 240 series will always have a special place in my heart.
(fun detail: Ask any kid around the world to draw a car, and they draw a volvo 240)
they still make trucks, but their “regular” where one of a kind with it’s variomatic
Gilbern, great lightweight fibreglass bodied “sports” cars from Wales…
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.
