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   AshburnStadium said, 4 months ago

   Let’s see – in my lifetime (I will turn 49 on Jan. 28, 2013), we’ve lost:
   Studebaker (1966)
   Rambler (1969)
   AMC (1987)
   Eagle (1999)
   Plymouth (2001)
   Oldsmobile (2004)
   Saturn (2009)
   Pontiac (2010)
   Hummer (2010)
   Mercury (2011).
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   AshburnStadium said, 4 months ago

   @AshburnStadium

   I forgot: Geo (1997), which was the import brand of Chevy. Since Chevrolet’s slogan at the time was “Genuine Chevrolet,” I called Geo cars “fake Chevrolets”!
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   msowards said, 4 months ago

   @AshburnStadium

   …and a bit before your life time The Ford Edsel (1959)
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   Bob said, 4 months ago

   DeSoto
   There was one my old scoutmaster drove. Can’t remember the name
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   ellisaana said, 4 months ago

   @msowards

   Also:
   - Crosley – the first company to call one their vehicles a “sport utility” went defunct in 1952.

   Willeys – made cars and “jeeps” until absorbered in Jeep, then Chrysler.

   and Kaiser-Frazier cars made until 1952.

   Those were just a few of the American made cars.

   In our neighborhood in NOVa in the 50’s and 60’s there were a lot of European cars brought back by servicemen:

   In addition to MGs, VWs Volvos, Saabs, Fiats and BMWs, there were Mini Coopers, Austins (Minors and Healeys), Alfa Romeos, a Morgan or two, several DKWs, a Daimler Princess, an Isetta, one Osca, several Elva Couriers, a Lotus Elan and a Siata Spring.
   Funny, I don’t remember anyone owning a Mercades.

   In the 70’s most of the European cars were surplanted by Datsuns, then Toyotas and the rest.
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   ellisaana said, 4 months ago

   So, I still live in NOVa, only a little farther from DC in Loudoun Co.

   The other day I was walking through a parking lot when I spied a Hummer with a Hybrid nameplate attached to it!
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