Asklemmy

Spyker.

International Harvester.

My dad had a Scout before I was born. I knew a guy with an international pickup truck that was indestructible.

I know the scout is coming back as an EV. But it seems to be a VW offshoot. So not really excited about that.

tram.

Delorean Motor Company.

I'd love to see a modern take on the classic Delorean. Something that isn't a fugly ass cybertruck dorkmobile.

De Tomaso

Studebaker so we can bring back the jet engine nose style.

Tucker! They never really got their footing but had some really innovative features that took decades for the industry to fully adopt. I’d be interested to see what they would be producing if they were around today.

Geo.

My Dad had a Geo Metro 5-speed that was getting 49 MPG in the 90's. Bought it brand new for like 10k. Sure it was a 3 cylinder that went 0-60 in ... eventually, but it'd be nice to be able to get that kind of mileage without paying out the nose for a hybrid.

I feel like amc was pretty innovative for its time. Most brands I can think of would probably succumb to the blob crossover trend because of how the us markets are set up for cars, but I feel like amc could still put an interesting twist on things.

I wish Ford had more regular cars in North America, they got rid of all except the Mustang

I feel like the answer is different if I am just resurrecting them as they were when they died, vs if I am magically in charge of the brand with funding to start "fresh"....

I’d bring back Reliant to make an electric version of the three wheel Robin purely for meme purposes.

SAAB, great looking cars with futuristic features!

Holden and Ford Australia. Partly for personal nostalgic reasons but also because of local engineering and manufacturing. A bit of our national identity disappeared when they shut down, although they were owned by US companies they were still a source of Aussie pride. Nowadays we have no local industry and it all just feels a bit hollow. Like watching sports when you have no local team.

I doubt they'd be able to make them these days but seeing as we're talking hypotheticals, there's something about a big cube V8 or turbo 6 that’s missing from everything since. Yes I know on here the hive mind demands we boo ands hiss if someone dares to like anything ICE, and when our current runabout goes it'll likely be replaced by an EV of some sort. But for us, cars are a hobby and a source of enjoyment too, and I dare say we'll have at least one ICE vehicle for a long as it's feasible for us to do so. And if I can get a semi-modern nod to the past that would be perfect.

And if the Japanese car industry could go back to the 90s I'd be pretty stoked about that too!

Pontiac

The Swedish Volvo and not the chinese Volvo. I feel like we would have had a power house for electric vhicles with Volvo. Now we are stuck with the French cars. Renault is doing really great. But isn't Volvo. I feel like Saab would had gone Volkswagen as well, and come too late for the party and die out anyways. But they made good cars as well.

Duesenberg. They made incredibly stylish and well engineered cars that were ahead of their time. I'd love to see a true competitor to Rolls Royce (Bentley doesn't really compete with Rolls anymore. Sure they're expensive luxury cars, but they aren't anywhere near as bespoke as Rolls Royce cars are).

I had a Saturn which was a really nice car except for all that stuff under the hood.

Maybe have an EV company buy the branding from it.

Someone already said SAAB so Mitsubishi

RIP Lancer Evo