[CleanNeon98]

Ford is ford..they make the F150 which has always sold well and have a few other trademark models. GM as a whole will not be allowed to fail because it will greatly reduce competition on the market, and other companies will be allowed to raise their prices and people will have to pay them because the GM alternative won't be around. Chrysler is Dodge, and there really is no need for both to be around considering they make pretty similar cars, and I think it will play out like it did when they got rid of the Plymouth brand.

GM however has been talking about possibly cutting the Pontiac, Cadillac, and Saturn from their line. There were talks from Ford before about getting rid of Mercury because between Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln, the cars and trucks are fairly similar, and again there is no need to have 3 companies making fairly identical cars but there were no moves made with that.

Ford has already recently sold some of it's share of Mazda (down from 34% to 13% I think) to ease the pains, they really need to get rid of Mercury, seeing as it's kind of the in-between brand of their production.

The only thing I can't figure out is what will happen to Jeep when/if Chrysler goes out.