[Seven plus One]

Sounds like the story of Harley-Davidson right up to the eighties. But Studebaker, now there's a badge that shouldn't have croaked. Not troll-related, I know, but the '53 and up Hawks were some gorgeous cars.

[RegulatorCountry]

Good design wears well. That original Raymond Loewy ‘53 Starlight Coupe was very good design. Widely imitated around the world. It held up through getting a Mercedes-Benz grille grafted onto it (they partnered with MB for a while), into tailfins and back out again, finally with a squared off formal roofline, not a bad looking one in the bunch if you’re talking hardtop coupes, all the way to Studebaker’s sad demise in ‘66.