Chrysler to be bought by Fiat

[Rich B 5,000+ posts]

Fiat also owns Ferrari.

How about a Viper with a Ferrari V10 in it?

 

[cj407]

now this thread is why americans elect who ever the media portrays as the best president....NO RESEARCH... Now Fiat executives have talked to administration officials about a proposal to acquire a 35% stake in Chrysler in exchange for small car technology, transmissions and other items that Chrysler has valued at $8-$10 billion.

 

[timaishu 10+ year member]

You know your companies a pos when fiat buys you out.

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

Benz was never "buying" chrysler they were just creating a partnership. Then Benz realized there was really nothing in it for them so they bailed. Germans are pretty smart.

 

[allout13 10+ year member]

You know your companies a pos when fiat buys you out.

Fiat also owns Ferrari.
How about a Viper with a Ferrari V10 in it?

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now this thread is why americans elect who ever the media portrays as the best president....NO RESEARCH... Now Fiat executives have talked to administration officials about a proposal to acquire a 35% stake in Chrysler in exchange for small car technology, transmissions and other items that Chrysler has valued at $8-$10 billion.

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif I was hoping for Chrysler to start selling a version of the panda

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

Darn! Now the italians will get the chrome plated plastic grills and cup holder technology that Crysler has developed.

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

Keep buying foreign vehicles, we've almost irradicated our country of the nasty pariah known as the "American Auto Industry"!

No. They did it to themselves. Poor quality overpriced products that did not appeal to the what the consumers wanted. Capitalism works fine. The big 3 failed to compete. They absolutely refused to build what the consumers demanded. Honda and Toyota listened.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

Benz was never "buying" chrysler they were just creating a partnership. Then Benz realized there was really nothing in it for them so they bailed. Germans are pretty smart.

Actually it was Mercedes that bought Chrysler in 98/99 - to their cost, as they underestimated the huge scale of getting the ramshackle operation that was (is) Chrysler up to modern European standards. Ultimately, the cost of doing so, which meant investing Mercedes profits into Chrysler retooling meant falling technical standards for Mercedes (as cost control measures were put into place in MB plants) which pissed off MB buyers, and a collapse in the group's profits - to result in trading losses for the first time ever, which pissed off the group's shareholders. So in 2007, Mercedes management did the decent thing and sold the dinosaur US company off to a vulture fund for about $1

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[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

No. They did it to themselves. Poor quality overpriced products that did not appeal to the what the consumers wanted. Capitalism works fine. The big 3 failed to compete. They absolutely refused to build what the consumers demanded. Honda and Toyota listened.

Not only that they pretty much just stopped engineering new products for 30 years, and just pocketed the money when it was convenient

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

Not only that they pretty much just stopped engineering new products for 30 years, and just pocketed the money when it was convenient

Not true. The American auto industry has led the world in advanced cup holder technology.

 

[DUMPED 10+ year member]

they brought this on themselves...

as others said they shouldn't of been bailed out.

 

[hrtbrk1 5,000+ posts]

fiats the bawmb

 

[allout13 10+ year member]

Id drive it

 

[LazyRider 10+ year member]

Not true. The American auto industry has led the world in advanced cup holder technology.

I don't know why but this made me laugh

 

[gymfreak101 10+ year member]

How is Ford surviving? Have not heard much about them.