I'm going down tomorrow morning and buy a new '00 Hudson and a Nash since they did such a good job in investing in their cars.... PlymouthV8@AOL.COM wrote: > > >>>Look back at the other fine makes that have bit the dust - > Studebaker, Packard, Nash and we all know the others. It has > been a lack of sales plain and simple - no mysterious plots, > no destruction campaigns, no sabotage, and in this instance, > no purposeful diminishing of the Chrysler name. > >>>>>> > > Even more so then direct sales, what killed Studebaker and Packard was poor > corparate decisions. Nash had approached both companies in the early fifties > when the market was good and offered to merge into American Motor.. They both > laughed at Nash... Nash later went on to merge with Hudson and did VERY well > in the late fifties thru the sixties and even parts of the 70's. Even > becoming number 3 once... > A company can usually do something about sales if they have the drive to. > Even if they fail, they can at least make an attempt. Nash and Hudson made > seriouse changes and improved sales... Chrysler could have done this instead > they choose to invest almost nothing into making Plymouth its own brand. I am > not saying it is easy, but I am saying that Chrysler Did not even try to make > plymouth its own brand... It is a shame to see it go like this, but this is > the way marques always seem to die... It is not that the buying public didnt > want a Plymouth, It is that the buying public didnt want an off-brand Dodge. > > Josh
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