Some companies deserved to go out of business but I think Tucker definitely did not. Cars would have been much different today if the other manufacturers didn't kill Tucker off.

Losing carol shelby. Muscle cars would be very very different without his influence over the industry. Racing would be very different as well.

As far as car history itself, definately the loss of Carroll Shelby.

As far as car manufacturer losses, definately Duesenberg, Pierce Arrow, Maybach, and Fiberfab.

I honestly believe it was TVR.

When the 'Russian Business Boy' took over TVR, he had little knowledge of how to run a company. Only coming out with two new models, an updated Tuscan and Sagaris, he quickly had to stop production of his cars. When I heard about Smolenski closing the company, I was astonished. A company that had been making cars since 1947 had just gone bust. TVR has now been brought back by a new buyer, but I really don't have my hopes up.

As Andrew said, Tucker should have had a better life. The story was very captivating, and the car as a whole was very interesting. However, they wouldn't be worth as much today without it's amazing story.

Quite honestly, Vector Aeromotive should have the better light of day. The W8 was like the LaFerrari/P1/918 of today. High-tech, very fast, insane looking, and was attempting to make an impact on the automotive world. Unfortunately, the Indonesians took over, and the company crumbled from the inside out.

~Art

When Mr Ferrari passed

The Acura NSX. I loved that car from the first time I saw one
Or Fisker.. it was such a great idea and such a beautiful car.

Sergio pininfarinas death last year made me sad too, but I can't get the image of the burned furai out of my mind atm :'(

Plus Weisman, mosler and gumpert are now gone, I loved the Apollo and was pretty sad to see them go

The first time Bugatti went under. Obviously, I dont remeber, but it must have been a sad day. Also, the day the Pontiac Aztec, Toyota Prius, and Nissan Cross-Cabrio were invented. And when the Skyline R34 could not come to the U.S.

The most tragic automotive loss by far is the scene in Gone in 60 seconds (Nic Cage version) when they destroy Eleanor at the end of the movie.

I shed a tear every time I see it. ;-)

yes the H1 (especially the Alpha Wagon) is one of my favourite trucks ever made! What Studebaker does he have? :o

The Furai that burned saddened me alot mostly becasue i used to play with it in GT5 and i just found out it that it burned after watching the topgear episode that had it.

Actually I change my opinion. The biggest tragedy of the automotive world was the creation of Mansory.

I hate tuning companies because they completely RUIN the car. Why would anyone buy a ferrari and get it tuned. the beauty of an exotic is for it to be completely stock unless you add an exhaust or something.

This is a picture of the burned furai
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18zrdlg9lj15ejpg/k-bigpic.jpg

just get the image out of my head then I blindly clicked your link, them feels

And mansory are bad but personally id say theve upped their game a little, their f12 is horrible but their mp4-12 looks amazing and so does the carbonado