Posted on 05/14/2007 11:22:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
LOL!!!!......and the For Sale price is waaaay below Blue Book!......
If Dr. Z could have given us another 10 years of that brilliantly orchestrated advertising blitzkrieg, he just might have pulled this one out of the crapper.
So long Dr. Z, we hardly knew ye.
“Daimlers Mercedes unit has had terrible quality control problems in the last few years itself.”
As I sadly found out the hard way. Transmission, to be specific.
And the transmission was one thing the Chrysler 300 got from the Mercedes line.
I wonder if the deal includes Chrysler getting Mercedes hand-me-downs?
If they made a great car and called it a Chrysler, the World would run screaming. ;)
Usual, predictable end to a “Shotgun” wedding.
Will we still get the rednecks in the beat up Duster?..........
Chrysler made more money in the last 20 years than the other two members of the Big Three.
The public doesn’t know that because for the last 9 years, Daimler has sucked off any signs of profits from Chrysler and taken them back to the fatherland.
Remember, when Daimler “merged” with Chrysler, Chrysler had over $10 billion cash on hand. That is all gone.
I know a lot of people like to bash American cars, but this is a case where Chrysler’s quality exceeded Mercedes (another fact seldom reported).
The Germans loved treating Chrysler as the bastard child of the relationship, ladling all their ills on the Americans when it was Chrysler’s profits that propped up Mercedes for most of the 9 years they were together.
Let us never forget that Daimler never allowed Chrysler to use anything from Mercedes without a charge. Daimler forced Chrysler to purchase all new equipment from European companies with ties to Daimler shareholders instead of from the best companies at the lowest cost.
Yes, it is easy to beat up Chrysler. Believe me, some of the management is completely incompetent and they are saddled with a dinosaur union. However, Chrysler has produced some of the most innovative vehicles in the last 20 years and has risen from the ashes before.
Watch Chrysler Corporation LLC rise again.
“300s are selling well,”
I’m wondering what’s going to happen to the 300C, Charger and Magnum in their next generation, as I understand that their underpinnings (platform) are/were largely from Mercedes. And then the Crossfire was basically a Mercedes CLK underneath - I suspect it will just disappear, as it was never a great seller, anyway.
Ooooh... reeeeeeeel Corinthian leeeeeether
“I was somewhat surprised to see them depreciating so badly! I mean 2002 S series selling for under $16K?”
I’ve noticed the same thing with a number of expensive cars. Many Jaguars also seem to bleed resale value like crazy. Makes me think of buying one for my next car instead of the oh-so-sensible choice of a Honda or Toyota. You have to think, though, that those cars are so cheap for a reason. I suspect that you might find that the maintenance and servicing costs on them are very high.
Egad. I can smell that Rich Corinthian Leather from here...
In the "For Profit" world bad ideas die quickly.
In television news, aka Katie Couric, bad ideas are blamed on staff incompetence.
Well, I went into the purchase of the 'vette with both eyes wide open, knowing full well the cost of upkeep of one.
As for Jags, at least since GM bought 'em they're not the unreliable POS they were with Lucas electrics!
The Charger I drove recently was a nice car, and man...you wanna talk about FAST? Whew...
Bring back Lee Iacocca. Maybe he wants to turn Chrysler around a 2nd time? Or is the car business going the way of other manufacturing with American made cars continuing to decline in sales?
Is that what that smell is? I thought maybe it was the cheap aftershave that surely goes along with an advertising campaign that cheesy.
Well the 300M is definately the “ghetto bentley”... in the large car segment it sells pretty well.
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