Daimler pays to dump Chrysler

CNN ^ | Monday, May 14, 2007 | Chris Isidore

[ImpBill]

I now own my second Town and Country LS and can’t seem me driving any other vehilce again. And at age 61 I have owned many vehicles. It is by far the best all around vehicle I have ever driven/owned.

[South40]

The 300M wasn't a "Getto Bentley". I believe you're thinking of the 300C.

[wordsofearnest]

I had a ‘98 Town & country van. we just loved it except that the transmission locked up twice.

[Red Badger]

AHHHH, the Chrysler Cor-DO-ba! With FINE CORINTHIAN LEATHER!.......

[Red Badger]

I thought FORD bought Jag..........

[Red Badger]

http://www.ford.com/en/company/about/brands/jaguar.htm

[headstamp]

I liiiike what they’ve done do my cah!

[MrB]

Plan to rehab the auto industry, starting with Chrysler.

1) Close every factory for 6 months.
2) Reopen every factory and start hiring cycle.
3) Refuse to hire any Goonion members.
4) Pay the workers what they were getting + half of their goonion contribution.

[Dead Dog]

Chrysler will be fine. Just escaped a bad marriage is all.

[Past Your Eyes]

"There are plenty of good cars that didn't sell well, (Corvair...."

The Corvair was a good car???? Good grief, Charlie Brown. That POS wouldn't even stay in the road at over 40 MPH.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Exactly what Koch did when they bought Georgia Pacific.

[elmer fudd]

Chrysler has made plenty of good cars. Ever hear of the Viper, the Dodge Caravan, Jeeps?

A limited production sports car, bread box styled minivan with transmissions that self destructed and a QC plagued series of SUV's? If those are their good cars they deserve to be out of business.

[Red Badger]

Yeah, but all Chrysler got to keep was the car!.........No House, No kids, no alimony!..........

[gcruse]

Good gawd, what a bath Daimler is taking. Those Buchananites decrying ‘foreign takeovers’ of American assets would do well to remember this, as if Sony’s debacle with the Rockefeller Center wasn’t enough.

[HamiltonJay]

You are correct.

[gcruse]

” Never has much been lost by so few in so short a time...’

It makes the airline industry, which as a whole never made a profit in its existence, seem promising.

[miliantnutcase]

The ‘98 and previous year had terrible transmission problems. Especially the AWD versions.

[Wyatt's Torch]

“As I sadly found out the hard way. Transmission, to be specific.”

My in laws have had a number of Mercede’s over the years including the newest E-Class. They have replaced the transmission in it 3 times now. Once the lease is up they have vowed never to own another and will look at a Lexus (the new LS 460 is beautiful).

[hunter112]

Maybe they could try this...

Richardo Montalban, as Khan, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: "You do not have the luxury of trying."

[rsflynn]

They do....

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