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Brands like Saab and Volvo are hard to sell off when to get them profitable, GM and Ford have had to get them either running badge engineered cars or cars built off their platforms. Any prospective buyer would either need to continue an alliance with GM or Ford, or spend the considerable investment in producing stand alone models again.

With brands like Buick, Pontiac, GMC and Mercury, theyve been tainted by mis-management. GM for instance could have Chev for their baseline range, Pontiac sell performance biased, Buick sell semi luxury and Cadillac keep seeling luxury. I wouldnt be sure where GMC fits in, as i understand it theyre mostly known for pickups/SUV's and perhaps could take that over from Chev. Even then, if GM wanted to have products for all of those brands on the same platform whilst still having unique styling for all theyre not quite in the right financial situation to afford it. That means between Buick and Cadillac a model might get scrapped, and the same between Chev and Pontiac.