Is Mercedes running Chrysler into the ground???

[chainbolt]

MB is the inventor of the automobile, the oldest car company in the world. They are selling world-wide, and have much more experience in quality engineering, and in marketing on an international scale. Chrysler was selling only in North America, and that market (as big as it is) is too small to survive. Chrysler had a good time just before they merged, so did Rover before BMW bought them. Insiders know very well, what really happened in both cases.

MB has already invested so much money in Chrysler, that a lot of investores and fond managers start to worry about MB. MB was naive, when they merged with Chrysler, they did not really understand, what was going on there, and now they have to pay for it.
BMW, was not naive, but simply stupid, they were truely cheated and did not realize.

What's going on now, is only good for Chrysler, because after the restructuring, you have maybe the fittest and meanest car company in the world.

I understadn that US citizens feel for Chrysler. But in most other countries, not only Germany, people see it in a very different way. It's Chrysler which is dragging down an automotive icon, and not the other way around.

 

[Samlind1]

Uh WIllow Run built B-24's. Made of stamped steel, which the car guys knew a lot about, and the aircraft guys from California didn't trust. They had to lock all the QC guys up from California so they could build airplanes. Those planes had an excellent record by the way.

Um, no the krauts have no clue how to run Chrysler. A company that was once so fast to market with new designs that Toyota sent representatives to study how they did it, is now dying due to the cold dead hand of Stutgart style bureaucracy. This company is dying while yet another committee meeting takes place.... Without the fire and vigor of what those dumbass krauts call "cowboy management" Chrysler slowly slides into oblivion.

 

[Bimmer318i]

<< ...over the current layoffs, while the indentured slaves...er...H1 Visas from India retained all their jobs... >>



excuse me?..

Abirinder Brar

 

[chainbolt]

over the current layoffs, while the indentured slaves...er...H1 Visas from India retained all their jobs... >>


yeahh, what does THIS mean?

 

[LAUST]

Midnight Rambler

You definantly spoke for me, I would not have said it as good prolly But I totally agree.

American car company's know what they are doing in the US market and they have the proof, their ability to Gobble up all those companies is because they make the money from smart sales. They have a few blunders here and there like the well known Aztec, but outside that they have made the money to be the 1st (GM) and 2nd (Ford) producers in the world.

 

[rahvin]

<<If a WWIII broke out, the war would be over long before we could crank up our manufacturing base again.>>

Good post man but I think I'm going to correct you on a minor point. If WWIII ever happens it's not going to last long enough to build anything new anyway. In addition our government is smarter than you think, they have 10,000 retired aircraft (mainly fighters) sitting in storage in the desert.