Where are they now?

At lunch today one of the guys was reminiscing about the cars of his youth - Austin, MG, Triumph, Austin Healy. These are all English cars that have passed on into car heaven. I wonder whether our kids will have a similar conversation about Buick, Lincoln, Mercury, Dodge, etc. Both GM and Ford are in bad shape and Chrysler is no longer really an American company. GM just announced what I think will be the first of many job cuts; 25,000 GM employees will lose their jobs over the next three years. We've come a long way since Engine Charlie Wilson could claim, "What's good for GM is good for the country."