[gridlock]

The sad thing is that if Chrysler made a good car, the World would beat a path to their door.

[Red Badger]

They got the looks part okay, they just gotta work on that stuff inside, .......

[HamiltonJay]

Chrysler isn’t hurting, JEEP brand is riding high, 300’s are selling well, and the PT Cruiser still sells... Sebring convertible is still the choice of folks who want a convertable and need a real back seat. Dodge is doing well with its trucks and some of its retro muscle car stuff.

Problem with Chrysler is the same its always been QUALITY CONTROL.... Engineered some great stuff over the years only to have those great designs be executed poorly.

Merging with Damler was stupid, and made no sense from the get go IMHO. CEO got his giant parachute and walked away, he didn’t care about the long term of the company... as very few ever do these days.

It will be interesting to see what exactly happens with Chrysler going forward.

[sittnick]

The sad thing is that if Chrysler made a good car, the World would beat a path to their door.

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

When Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler they took a decent company with some good stuff just out (the Dodge Intrepid, Neon, and the most successful Dodge truck line ever) with some fun stuff on the drawing board (new 300, Plymouth PT Cruiser) and immediately went to work messing up the company. They ditched Plymouth and bastardized the formerly semi-upscale Chrysler badge by selling Chrysler Neons.

Sure, lots of crap came from Chrysler during the '70s and '80s, but Daimler bought a healthy company and ruined it, just as AT&T did with their NCR buy out, and Unisys did with the Sperry/Burroughs merger.

There are plenty of good cars that didn't sell well, (Corvair, AMC Javelin, Oldsmobile Aurora), and plenty of crummy cars that sold fairly well (Pontiac Fiero, any GM with a Quad-4 engine, Ford Windstar, Toyota Previa minivan (1st version))

Marketing and perceived value and proper pricing (the Aurora and new T-bird were too dang expensive) are part of the equation, too.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The sad thing is that if Chrysler made a good car, the World would beat a path to their door.

If they made a great car and called it a Chrysler, the World would run screaming. ;)

[Armedanddangerous]

The Charger I drove recently was a nice car, and man...you wanna talk about FAST? Whew...

[rsflynn]

They do....

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[longtermmemmory]

not true.

Chrysler and Mitsubishi mad an identical automobile (the talon I believe)

Identical except for the nameplate and logos. All else was the same, engine, seats, shape, tooling.

However the Mitsubishi outsold it 70/30.

chrysler had and has a perception problem.

Sad considering some of the inovations came from them lately. Prowler, pt cruiser, ....ok thats it.

[bruin66]

I have a ‘99 Ram diesel and an ‘02 Intrepid. Both excellent vehicles.