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....
[email protected] 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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