Ford finally dropping the Mercury

[Ranger Dave (B25)]

gmc actually stands for 'general motors commercial' and back in the day were the major truck manufacturing branch of gm.these days it has become no more than a different tag on a chev truck.the car and truck manufacturing has become too blended to require a seperate brand,at least for light trucks.

Simply drop all Chevy nomenclature from anything other than cars. It's not THAT blended together. Let GMC live on as the sole SUV/light-truck arm of Government Motors.

Seems a simple solution, which is why they won't get it.

 

[gwaii]

that would work too.don't see the need for two branches making the same thing.

 

[Jason]

Yeah, Acura is sold as Honda's "Luxury" brand, not that I'm overly convinced of that myself.

Acuras seem to me to be more performance than luxury, but then Honda has more or less catered to the tuner/sport crowd almost from the beginning.

There was no tuner crowds at the beginning for Honda. I think it's more that tuners adopted Honda because those civic engines can handle alot of abuse. I do remember the turbo Chryslers were huge with the sport compact guys in the early 90's before the "fast and furious" gayness took over.

 

[gwaii]

so it turns out ford owns the rights to 'mercury blues',think it'll be up for sale now?