Car Manufacturers in Trouble

Well, as everyone has heard, the big three car manufacturers are in deep financial trouble like everyone else and now looking for a bailout. Many say they did it themselves and there should be no bailout. Others say the impact would be so great and filter down to so many people they have to have a bailout. What went wrong with the industry?

I think there are just too many models of vehicles and too many look the same. Take a look at the minivan's. Chrysler started with them and then the other companies followed suit. Have you noticed they all look the same? The same goes for other vehicles. Ford and Mercury have the same cars with just a slight difference to make them unique and Mercury's cost more. And the looks even cross manufacturers where it is hard to tell who made them as they all seem to look alike.

What ever happened to the unique models. Take a look at the 55, 56 and 57 Chevy's and the Dodges and Plymouth models that had the different fins on the back and of course those different shaped steering wheels and those wonderful two tone models. Why can't they be different now? Doesn't looking the same and having the same options mean that consumers are just Blah about the new vehicles. And who really needs all those fancy gizmo's. Just more to break down and pay a fortune to fix and of course pay an huge price for.

My first car was a 1955 Ford two tone white and red two door. I never got to drive that car as I was only 15. My actual car when I was 16 was a 1959 two tone Plymouth Belvedere. I had that weird shaped steering wheel and push button automatic transmission. No power steering, power brakes, power windows, air conditioning or radio. I had a small portable radio I carried with me. You would have thought I was king of the world with that car. My favorite was a 1956 Oldsmobile two tone cream and titty pink. Was it every boy's dream to drive a two tone with one of the color's always being titty pink? Must have been as that is how you hear us "Older" guys always describing our cars growing up and two tone titty pink.