Seats seven:
Posted on 09/15/2006 6:19:51 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
Chrysler group to post $1.5 billion loss in third quarter
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -- DaimlerChrysler cut its 2006 operating profit forecast by around $1.27 billion (1 billion euros) today and predicted the Chrysler group could lose $1.5 billion (1.2 billion euros) in the third quarter, much worse than first thought.
DaimlerChrysler now expects 2006 operating profit of only around $6.34 billion (5 billion euros).
You lucked out. NO SUV rollover problems but MAJOR tranny proeblems with every Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth I've ever had experience with. It's the only car maker every person in my family and all my friends have sworn off completely. Frankly, yours is the only decent story I've heard ever about a Chrysler product.
Seats seven:
He asked "Any qvestions?"
Reporter says "No, I'm good."
The rest of the ads seem sort of insipid after that one.
Unfortunately all their problems led to virtually everyone I know vowing to never own a Chrysler product.
The merger was the only thing that saved them (briefly) IMO. The Chyrsler Group will chut down completely in the next 5 years is my guess.
Then Daimler and the Mercedes group can focus on semi-decent cars again.
Front springs have given out.
A friend of mine has one, and I would have bought one if I hadn't left Germany. They are very well engineered and safe. I saw a staged offset head-on with a normal small car (VW Golf size). The other driver would have been in the hospital, while the Smart driver may have gotten a headache. There was actually damage on the Smart's rear-end due to the design routing the force of the accident around the passenger compartment.
It's like an egg shell, special alloy, not regular steel.
Ford did that with the Fusion; one such event was written up in Car and Driver.
I haven't heard how well the Fusion is selling. Regardless, when they start building cars that drive and feel and work like Hondas and Toyotas, they'll see some success.
Oh, and as for Chrysler, I've purchased four of them since 2000 (one new, two used, and one very used) and I've been quite pleased. Fifteen years ago, I wouldn't have considered owning one.
It just looks like that from that view. It's horizontal on the bottom.
The perceived quality difference between Asian and "Big Three" models today is much greater than the actual difference.
Perhaps that's the price of too many decades spent resting on their laurels.
There is a couple of them driving around town now, I will wait to see how well the heater works in the cold and ice.
Firenza, I think.
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