[DemforBush]

Kind of an interesting story. Of the four discontinued brands, I'll miss Mercury the most (I come from a Ford family, what can I say?).

[Carl LaFong]

I’m still cheesed off that they discontinued the DeSoto.

[TruthHound]

Among the pile of corporate corpses since Øbama was inaugurated:
B Dalton
Checker Motors
Circuit City
Continental Airlines
Hollywood Video (Blockbuster bankrupt)
KB Toys
Pioneer Chicken
Earl Scheib
Woolworths

[max americana]

The Aztec...I’m confident to say that the guy who designed it and the guy who approved it for manufacture were both high on crack. It was damn ugly.

[Old Flat Toad]

Don’t forget Buell motorcycles.

[Secret Agent Man]

I like Ford trucks. They finally got their electronics right in the 1990s when they started partnering with Mazda. The one thing Ford should come out and admit however is the design problem in the F-150 engine that kept blowing out one of the spary plugs due to the metal being too thin in the engine casing.

I never liked Mercury. They always looked like Ford but often with minor (and in my opinion, almost always uglier/worse) cosmetic changes you paid a lot more for. It never made sense to me to have essentially the same vehicles but just have a few trim differences, yet pay a lot more for one than the other.

[KarlInOhio]

3. Saturn

I had one. The first five years it lived up to its motto “a different kind of car company.” After that its time in the shop showed that it was still a GM. (Also those commercials showing things bouncing off the plastic door panels weren't shot when it was well below zero. At that temperature they just shatter when hit.)

[Born Conservative]

I’ll miss Pontiac; loved my Grand Prix.

[MV=PY]

My son still drives a loaded Grand Marquis he “inherited” from me. I figure it could go another few 100k miles.

Amazing road vehicle. I’ll miss them.

[Prussianone]

I still wonder if the car companies have that “carry parts for ten years only” rule, any more.

[pacific_waters]

Tis may be a small thing but the inaccuracy in this article is seen in article after article in reporting today. I don’t know if the “reporters” are just plain ignorant or they deliberately conjure up myths to embellish their stories. This oen comes straight out of GM pr.

“The original Hummer H1 (or Hum-Vee) was a celebrity of the Persian Gulf War. In 2002 came a smaller and (slightly) more manageable version, the Hummer H2.”

The Hummvee bears nothing more than a slight sheet metal resemblance to the hummer. They are 2 totally different vehicles and have absolutely no historical connection other than GM’s desire to capitalize on the performance of the Humvee.