Mercury, Saturn, Pontiac, Plymouth, Mitsubishi. Plenty more, but those are off the top of my head.
Fun fact: GM will buy out a company, and to no surprise, it gets ruined. 😂
Delorean Motor Company.
I’d love to see a modern take on the classic Delorean. Something that isn’t a fugly ass cybertruck dorkmobile.
Delorean Motor Company.
They’re (kind of) back. A new company was formed after acquiring the old company’s branding. So far they’re only providing parts to owners of vintage DMC-12s (and I think a few “new old” DMC-12s), but they’re working on a new EV inspired by the classic model.
tram.
This is the way
Studebaker so we can bring back the jet engine nose style.
The pedestrian poker. Still less worse than all the brodozers around now.
De Tomaso
I’d bring back Reliant to make an electric version of the three wheel Robin purely for meme purposes.
Fancy a pick-up truck? I saw this abomination / Chad-Wagon a few years ago:
Isnt this the one that flips over if you look at it too fast? I also pick this one
Only if you weight it wrong on purpose like they did on Top Gear…
I got a lift in a Reliant Robin once, and going round corners was terrifying.
Did you keep an eye out for Mr Bean?
Pontiac
I always tell my wife that if they found a secret warehouse full of old Aztek parts and pumped some new ones out, I’d get one on the spot. I loved that car.
The tent add on would fly these days
My first car. I still want to try out a G8 sometime.
Holden and Ford Australia. Partly for personal nostalgic reasons but also because of local engineering and manufacturing. A bit of our national identity disappeared when they shut down, although they were owned by US companies they were still a source of Aussie pride. Nowadays we have no local industry and it all just feels a bit hollow. Like watching sports when you have no local team.
I doubt they’d be able to make them these days but seeing as we’re talking hypotheticals, there’s something about a big cube V8 or turbo 6 that’s missing from everything since. Yes I know on here the hive mind demands we boo ands hiss if someone dares to like anything ICE, and when our current runabout goes it’ll likely be replaced by an EV of some sort. But for us, cars are a hobby and a source of enjoyment too, and I dare say we’ll have at least one ICE vehicle for a long as it’s feasible for us to do so. And if I can get a semi-modern nod to the past that would be perfect.
And if the Japanese car industry could go back to the 90s I’d be pretty stoked about that too!
100% this.
Another thing that disappeared with Holden and Ford Australia are normal sized utes, nowadays it’s just all gigantic pick-up trucks.
+1 for Holden - the true Aussie car brand. Such a shame that it has been owned by GM for longer than I’ve been alive, and they killed it when it wasn’t profitable enough. Fuck the USA.
At least bring back the Barra! I must swap it into so many things.
Barra the world!
Well said!
International Harvester.
My dad had a Scout before I was born. I knew a guy with an international pickup truck that was indestructible.
I know the scout is coming back as an EV. But it seems to be a VW offshoot. So not really excited about that.
Spyker.
Wilde het net zeggen
Geo.
My Dad had a Geo Metro 5-speed that was getting 49 MPG in the 90’s. Bought it brand new for like 10k. Sure it was a 3 cylinder that went 0-60 in … eventually, but it’d be nice to be able to get that kind of mileage without paying out the nose for a hybrid.
My first car was a Geo Metro that I learned to drive in. One time I got pulled over and the cop claimed I was going 80mph and I told him I didn’t even think it could hit 80mph if you dropped it out of a plane. He decided against writing a ticket.
I wish Ford had more regular cars in North America, they got rid of all except the Mustang
Bring back the crown Victoria!
Based on what it sounds like they’re doing to their trucks in terms of privacy and your ability to actually own your vehicle, I’m not mad that I can no longer get a newer Ford sedan.
Someone already said SAAB so Mitsubishi
RIP Lancer Evo
Isn’t Mitsubishi still around and kicking? I have no idea how that brand solders on with such low volume and price points.
Technically. But they’re a shell of what they were. Man I’d love to see a new take on a GTO VR4. And why’d they use the Eclipse name like that. :( :(
In the OG Grand Turismo I somehow wound up with a red GTO. I was able to upgrade the thing to something silly like 940 horsepower. It was… great.
In very broad brushes, cars seem to be getting both more boring and higher performance. The Evo, Celica, Camaro (again), Sky/Solstice, S2000, MR2, STI (the new one doesn’t really count), etc are all gone. On the other hand, most budget EVs will give the performance cars of yesterday year a good run for their money.
only SUVs for you now
They probably don’t make it anymore but I just saw some oddball Mitsubishi sedan at a buy-here-pay-here lot down the street. I’m not even sure what the hell it was as I’ve never seen another. It was styled like the early 2000s Kia Rio before Hyundai/Kia upped their game.
I think the Eclipse GSX/GST was cool but their build quality was dogshit and that’s why you don’t see them on the road anymore. My wife had a GS and it blew up at 120k miles. Meanwhile my Camry is at 230k miles on just oil changes alone.
maybe the sedan mirage? it looked vaguely like the old lancer and had the unmistakable 2000s nugget look.
I think you might be right based on the photos I see.
Tucker! They never really got their footing but had some really innovative features that took decades for the industry to fully adopt. I’d be interested to see what they would be producing if they were around today.
I feel like amc was pretty innovative for its time. Most brands I can think of would probably succumb to the blob crossover trend because of how the us markets are set up for cars, but I feel like amc could still put an interesting twist on things.
Ugly but dependable.
