Which one should go out of business, Ford, GM or Dodge?

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I would say it's a coin toss between Chrysler & GM, but I would say Chrysler would go bust first. The problem with american auto's since the start of the 1980's is there is no distinction or uniqueness between model lines, so all their autos look identical between the three automakers. I refer to these as cookie cutter cars. The only models that can potentially save each brand is Dodge's new Challenger, Chevy's new Camaro, and of course Ford has the Mustang/Shelby.
 
GM, its the biggest company that had all the money in the world to be leaders and innovators, instead of building better and more efficient cars, hybrids, they abandoned the small car market and pushed dead end Hummers and Escalades. Virtually all their small sedans are re badged imports.
Take a look at some of the reliability charts, GM at the very bottom, of the big 3 Ford fares the best but its still well behind Honda and Toyota.
The interesting chart is the one showing percentage of worse than average cars that GM makes is actually increasing. As time goes on other manufactures are improving their quality at a faster rate than GM.
 
GM, I remember when they announced that because they were not selling enough cars, that the prices had to go up!
They were so big that they thought that the laws of economics did not apply to them.
They sell cars that are only skin deep and appeal to the eye and not logic. Unreliable and in most cases gutless!
As for reaction time to the problem, Ford was and is still ahead in this case. Moving the manufacturing of small cars for the US market from Mexico to the US (read the Wikipedia entry for the Focus). They cut design time to market by years (the Taurus is a prime example of this). The US Operations manger started taking commercial flights long before the CEO of Ford did (to cut costs).
As for Chrysler, it is a shame that they are in the mess they are in. But what can you expect from a company that has its roots in GM on one side and the Maxwell on the other?
 
Ford.

Even though its my favorite, it kept mass producing big-useless trucks that a very small percentage wanted to buy.

They reacted slow and cut their losses, and were supposed to be offering way more efficient cars by now. now their paying the price.
 
I would say Dodge. I have had three Dodges and only one of the three was worth anything and that was a 1987 Plymouth Horizon. Other two pieces of crap! Plus my step parents cars were Dodge and they were junk too.

GM should also flounder as they screwed up BIG time when they destroyed the EV-1's. Biggest blunder in automotive history and GM should fall for this.
 
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