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Originally Posted by a_Username
If the speculation is true and they denied buying GM after their bankruptcy, then wouldn't it have been smart for them to buy it up to decrease competition? The drastic increase in sales they'd get would definitely be worth the buy IMO. But I'm not in their shoes so IDK lol.
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You have to have the revenue to run such a monster, and therein lies the rub. The money to make the deal happen after the fact simply didn't exist. Ford possibly could have talked the US government into a major loan to make such a deal more viable, but Ford didn't seem overly keen on taking government loans of that magnitude for any reason.
GM has a lot of potential, but it would have been a poor fit for Ford.