The Top Ten Defunct American Car Brands and Why they Failed

[@King-Ghidora]

This video should be titled "top 15...", because if you included DeLorean, Hummer and Saturn, the you have to include Bricklin, Avanti, AMC, Kaiser (they survived into the late 60s in South America), Stutz and perhaps Rambler, Valiant, Eagle, VAM, King Midget and Crosley. Rambler was how AMC was know before they became AMC, but it remained Rambler in other markets. VAM was how Rambler came to be known in México and was a joint venture between AMC and a Mexican corporation. Valiant was how Plymouth was known in South America. Some of those are a stretch I know, but they existed as separate entities for a while.

[@CJColvin]

Packard would've been around to this day competing with Cadillac, Lincoln, and Rolls-Royce had both Studebaker and Packard merged together with Hudson and Nash to create AMC in 1954.

[@IAmAnAdowablePanto2190]

Then Packard would save three more brands. Or what if Studebaker owned Packard, Hudson, and Nash. I wanna see how Packard, Studebaker, Hudson, and Nash look like nowadays.

[@CJColvin]

@I Am A Car Or better yet what if Ford bought both Studebaker and Packard and used em as divisions like Studebaker would be above Ford but below Mercury and Packard would be above Mercury but below Lincoln.

[@IAmAnAdowablePanto2190]

@@CJColvin Ford could definitely kick GM off of the USA border, but Roy Brown Jr., the Rolls-Royce wannabe who designed the Edsel might design Studebaker, Hudson, and Nash badly. Packard would be fine, because he has his own grille.

[@5610winston]

What about DeSoto? Imperial? Nash? Hudson? Graham-Paige? Hupp? Willys?

[@neildickson5394]

Left out: AMC, Hudson, Nash. Checker. However, most of these brands are a hell of lot more exciting than what is leftover.

[@timothyokane9710]

In your Top 10 you didn't include AMC which was bought out by Chrysler Corporation, to put Jeep in their lineup, also Eagle which started with Renault and Mitsubishi.

[@KumarKM1]

Excellent video.

[@TheTopTen10]

Thanks for watching.

[@jerrygarvin3119]

No mention of AMC, Nash, Hudson, DeSoto, Kaiser-Frazer, etc. Glaring omissions.

[@NEUROSURGEONMEDICNAINTERNALIFE]

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[@drybones9807]

Scion was another car company that went out of business as well.

[@5610winston]

But not US-based.

[@johnmozug5252]

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[@5610winston]

4:30 Edsel was not only the wrong car at the wrong time, it was the wrong car for any time. Ford trotted out four sedan models plus three wagons with prices ranging from the mid-range Ford level to knocking on the door of the entry-model Lincolns. The wise crack post-mortem was "The aim was right, but the target moved." The fact was, by aiming at Dodge, DeSoto, Chrysler Windsor, Pontiac, Olds, and Buick, they \were also aiming at the Mercury division that already had the competition covered. Add to that the 1958 recession and the face not even a mother could love, and the Edsel was dead on arrival.

[@justiceiscomingsoon]

where these cars can be bought ?

[@Steven-xk3nw]

What about DeSoto

[@galenhof3371]

Hudson, Nash, AMC?????

[@5610winston]

George Mason of Nash-Kelvinator proposed the merger with Hudson and a grand plan for Packard to buy Studebaker, the merged pairs to be merged into a full-line auto company spanning the low-priced Studebaker to compete with the likes of Plymouth and Chevrolet, mid-priced Nash against Dodge and Pontiac, Hudson against Buick and DeSoto and Mercury, and Packard as overlord competing with Imperial and Cadillac. George Mason died about the time Packard bought Studebaker, Packard management found out Studebaker was hemorrhaging red ink and had been for years. Without George Mason, and with the revelations of Studebaker's true condition, and other frictions, the final merger fell through. George Romney, the new head of AMC, decided to do away with the Nash and Hudson names, eventually consolidating what was left of Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson under the _RAMBLER_ name. Romney's plan proved pretty successful, the only independent to last into the 1980s. Meanwhile, Henry J. Kaiser had gotten hold of what was left of Graham-Paige which came with Joseph Washington Frazer, forming Kaiser-Frazer which eventually shed the Frazer name as well as Joe Frazer, and picked up Willys-Overland to become Kaiser-Jeep. Eventually Chrysler bought Kaiser to get hold of the Jeep brand, and Chrysler stood around hiking its metaphorical skirts on seedy street corners "Buy me a drink Sailor?" style, getting passed from investment group to investment group, now under protection of and in the cribs of Stellantis and that's where Hudson, Nash, Graham-Paige and Willys-Overland are today. One aside here, Dodge has recently introduced a new model carrying a fifties-era Hudson model name, the _HORNET_

[@Steven-xk3nw]

What about😮 AMC

[@srr1887]

0:20 deluxo lol

[@joeduca6071]

AMC??????