Caps94ZODG

I mean just thinking, will it ever ever ever happen??

the market, and the competition...
just throwing it out there cus it looks like Toyota is laughing all the way to the bank....literally..

could the big one toyota make it possible? or would one let the other fold??

WJH'sFormula

Hrrrm....I'd surmise as to oh, never....

I could see it as a faint possibility *IF* the truck/suv market were to collapse, though, I'd imagine the probability of that happening is akin to the probability of ol' Mr. Gates umm, donating his assets into my portfolio.

Brandon_Lutz

Actually this almost happened several decades ago if I remember my history right. I think the government smacked it down though fearing a Monopoly being formed from or that GM didnt have the proper capital at the time to buy out Ford.

SCNGENNFTHGEN

Scary thought, but I too remember hearing something about it awhile back. Let us hope that never, ever happen.

poSSum

Never?

When 2 companies have all the same problems merging would compound rather than reduce those problems.

Eric77TA

I'd actually think Toyota taking over GM could be more likely. Seriously.

Z28x

Never

johnsocal

A Mustang-based Camaro with a Ford V8 sounds like a nightmare.

HAZ-Matt

That was in 1909. The loan for $9.5 million was turned down by the bankers.

guionM

You are right.

GM attempted to buy Ford or vice versa some decades ago (20s or 30s).

I don't think the government was the one to kill it though.

HAZ-Matt

To give that some perspective, at the time GM was Buick, Oldsmobile, Oakland and Cadillac... If the loan went through would they have ever bought Chevrolet?

Z28x

Then people would bitch "Why does GM need both Ford and Chevy brand pickups? Just dump XXX and only sell YYY" Any one notice as more American brands are dropped (olds, plymouth, eagle) or foreign brands intigrated (Saab, Jaguar) other brands pop up and take market share (Kia, Hyundai, Scion, Mini). GM doesn't need to buy more brands, it needs to perfect the ones it has first!!!

91_z28_4me

I think that GM could have bought Ford in the late 80s early 90s but just didn't.

guionM

Actually, it was Ford that could have bought GM in the late 80s to early 90s.

GM was teathering on the edge of bankruptcy after Roger Smith's time at GM, and Ford was awash in cash after a decade of running the long paid off , widely used, and highly successful "fox" body and doing a 180 and drastically improving quality & customer satisfaction over the course of the 80s. Having a car that flattened all competition also helped (Ford Taurus was the best selling car in the US by a massive margin till the late 90s redesign).

Ford also had the resources to at least make a play on GM again in the mid-late 90s. Again, Ford was awash in cash, and they instead went on a buying spree that aquired them Land Rover, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Volvo, and a controlling share of Mazda.

Ford could have easily marshalled their resources and bought the lion's share of General Motors and if not own it outright, most definately own enough of it to run General Motors. Not just in the US, but the whole GM kitty.

AronZ28

NEVER.

I think the two companies would go bankrupt before that ever happened.