Thread: 10 Car Brands That No Longer Exist

Hillman ...

British automobilemarque created by the Hillman Motor Car Company, founded in 1907. The company was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England. Before 1907 the company had built bicycles. Newly under the control of the Rootes brothers, the Hillman company was acquired by Humber in 1928. Hillman was used as the small car marque of Humber Limited from 1931, but until 1937 Hillman did continue to sell large cars. The Rootes brothers reached a sixty per cent holding of Humber in 1932 which they retained until 1967, when Chrysler bought Rootes and bought out the other forty per cent of shareholders in Humber. The marque continued to be used under Chrysler until 1976.

^^From your link...Don't even remember the Eagle brand.


This was surprising:

The most successful Plymouth model was the Duster, which was produced from 1969 to 1976

I would have thought it was the 'Cuda aka Barracuda.


How about the Yugo? It's a goner isn't it?

I had one just like this. Crashed and burned.

Chrysler Australia sadly shut-up shop manufacturing wise in 1980 which was the demise of Valiant.

Falcons and Commodores are effectively gone also.

Traban, and LADA

reaching 100K EUR in vintage automobiles market

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

British automobilemarque created by the Hillman Motor Car Company, founded in 1907. The company was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England.

Peugeot Citroen had a plant in Ryton. Wonder if it was the same factory.

Austin Rover was the biggest British casualty.

Australian-made Goggomobil



The ads called it the "Amazing new 4-seat, 60 m.p.g. Wonder Car" with the "miraculous, tougher-than-steel, DENT-PROOF body!"


The biggest hook though was the price.

In 1958 the tiny Australian-made Goggomobil sedan cost about half as much as the basic Holden (£622 versus £1110), and was well below any other new car in Australia.




It sold up a storm. By 1961 about 5000 Goggos had found owners.


https://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/...0141125-11tfrd

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Austin Rover was the biggest British casualty.

Who owns Jaguar now after Ford sold it off?

SAAB,

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Austin Rover was the biggest British casualty.

Some of the Brit manufacturers of the '60's - 80's really ought to be tried for crimes against humanity for the mobile monstrosities-slash-turds they set loose.

Originally Posted by SKkin

Who owns Jaguar now after Ford sold it off?

TATA, the indian steel company

Did anyone buy Leyland?

I'm fairly sure BMW make the Mini now?



That Triumph Acclaim has to be a Honda Civic?

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Some of the Brit manufacturers of the '60's - 80's really ought to be tried for crimes against humanity for the mobile monstrosities-slash-turds they set loose.

not as ugly as certain 1970s style Australian muscle cars

some people should be shot for collecting them, let alone posting pics of them on online forums and remind us all how ugly they were

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

not as ugly as certain 1970s style Australian muscle cars

You are French... You have no taste or class and drive cars that only go backwards.

Erm, its worse he's Belgian and they don't have a car manufacturer. They make bird cages though.

Peugeot best selling cars in England and the rest of Europe,

DS new iconic car in China,

Ant in Chiang Mai, ugly ass cars with ugly ass colors

Gents, the topic is 'Car Brands that no longer exist' not Members you wish didn't.

Focus on the cars please ...

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

TATA, the indian steel company

Does that qualify as a casualty?

Pontiac, Oldsmobile And Mercury come to mind.

Peugeot best selling cars in England and the rest of Europe,

peugeot, like audi, bmw, toyota etc.etc. produce dull bland beige cars as white goods, nothing wrong with that really, cars have now become bloated blobby appliances to carry us in convoy at regulated speeds along congested roads.

they all look the same and do the same things, they are only differentiated by the jewellery they wear in the form of lights and grilles.


the germans may whack a big fuck off engine into some of their saloons and suvs to satisfy the immature money no object raghead market and the euro/us micro penised chest wig chariot brigade, but basically they are nonsense machines. fun on the empty unregulated roads of the past, but impractical for the past 25 years anywhere other than a racetrack.

its fun to fantasise over ones money no object dream garage, or to undertake a restoration project to satisfy ones nostalgic longings, but for everyday use those horrible peugeots make a lot of sense.

Originally Posted by SKkin

Does that qualify as a casualty?

Well, it will once they remove all manufacturing to India and change the name to Maruti or Gupta.

Did they mention wolsley?

Originally Posted by Cujo

Did they mention wolsley?

As of 2012 the Wolseley marque is owned by SAIC Motor, having been acquired by its subsidiary Nanjing Automobile following the break-up of the MG Rover Group. The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machinery Company continued trading and is now Ferguson plc.

WIKI

Sunbeam and Triumph gone as well.