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Why did these 5 American car brands die?
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<blockquote data-quote="MP43" data-source="post: 3693242" data-attributes="member: 1631"><p>But buying a used car wouldn't have helped Oldsmobile survive. The point is, there were potential buyers out there that spent their money on something else because Oldsmobile was no longer making cars that appealed to them. I did the same thing. In 1985 I was smitten by a blue ASC McLaren Capri that was in the Fred Jones showroom in downtown OKC. But I was in school and had no money. I really loved those bubble back Capris, and would have bought one in a heartbeat when I finally got out of school and had some money coming in, but Mercury had dropped them by them. I didn't want a used car, I wanted something new, so I bought a Mustang instead. Just one small data point in the brand's slow slide into irrelevance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MP43, post: 3693242, member: 1631"] But buying a used car wouldn't have helped Oldsmobile survive. The point is, there were potential buyers out there that spent their money on something else because Oldsmobile was no longer making cars that appealed to them. I did the same thing. In 1985 I was smitten by a blue ASC McLaren Capri that was in the Fred Jones showroom in downtown OKC. But I was in school and had no money. I really loved those bubble back Capris, and would have bought one in a heartbeat when I finally got out of school and had some money coming in, but Mercury had dropped them by them. I didn't want a used car, I wanted something new, so I bought a Mustang instead. Just one small data point in the brand's slow slide into irrelevance. [/QUOTE]
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