Talk:Orphan (car)

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I appreciate your discription of Orhpan cars...but you are mistaken in one regard. If a mother company starts a make and then discontinues it, it may or may not be an Orphan. But if a company is purchased or absorbed into another company and then discontinued, while the new mother company may still be in business, the discontinued make is DEFINITELY an orphan. One huge example of this would be Oldsmobile. This was the oldest car company in America when it was dropped by G.M. It was the first company to use assembly line manufacturing...years ahead of Ford. And it was it's own company. Definitely an orphan.

Thanks.

By that standard, a Plymouth Sundance is an orphan but a Dodge Shadow is not... which makes no sense, as they are the same vehicle with a different grille. I'd suspect that much of the Pontiac/Olds line overlapped mechanical parts which were in Chevrolet or Buick, so are a somewhat different beast (in terms of ability to find replacement parts) from truly-orphaned products like DeLorean or Studebaker where the manufacturer went completely bust (and not just Chapter 11 or some other company creditors arrangement act which restructures them as going concerns). 2001:5C0:1000:A:0:0:0:C5 (talk) 23:16, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]