Comments on: Billionaire Kerkorian makes offer to buy Chrysler Group

By: rerone

rerone — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:45:10 +0000

You know on second thought let a bankruptcy judge tell UAW and retirees why previous obligations will not be met. Then just start over clean slate. Hey I know, move production to China. That’s where it’s all going to windup anyway.

By: mujician

mujician — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:01:29 +0000

SOLD…. The question is, for how long?

By: Get Real

Get Real — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:57:58 +0000

He is briliant or insane.

UAW pensions due at Chrysler are 20 BILLION dollars. That’s why Chrysler (and GM) are on paper: worthless.

He has a way out of the pensions, or he can pay it and make the company work.

By: Menace

Menace — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:42:40 +0000

Kirk should buy Chrysler, dump the union, revamp the product line, and make this a lean, fighting company. To be successful, Chrysler needs to deal with their quality problem first and formost…(transmissions that die at 60k and an electrical system with ghosts in the machine don’t cut it unless you build expensive German cars that perform and the owners accept the trade off). If Kirk hires a quality management expert and copies how Honda/Toyota manage their production of vehicles around quality…he may win. I hope he gets a chance, the companies dying where it is.

By: europerspective

europerspective — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:30:31 +0000

reron,

its great that you get the same economy despite 250% increase in power. Now imagine what economy you’d be getting if you were motivated to buy a lighter car – one that didn’t need 250% more power than its 1984 equivalent.

By: golf4me

golf4me — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:53:04 +0000

Why doesn’t the UAW buy Chrysler. Then, they could pay themselves whatever they want, have all the benefits they want, have a place for all their laid off brethren to go, and they can reap any rewards they might earn if they turn the thing around. Employee owned companies usually fare pretty well.

By: Rene Curry

Rene Curry — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:27:35 +0000

Kirk is savvy investor, however when is enough money enough! At his age he is still hard working. Maybe this is more of a legacy thing for him ????

By: Jackson

Jackson — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:27:38 +0000

Adios Chrysler and good riddance. Who needs shit like the Caliber anyway?
Kirk is gonna find out that you need decent product to make money.
Daimler-Benz you rock, amputate the diseased limb.

By: Ricardo Head

Ricardo Head — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:21:28 +0000

Kirky-baby is such a car guy. He’s the perfect expert to run Chrysler.

By: S-60-driver

S-60-driver — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:10:30 +0000

Oh my god!!!! I need some NEW posts from LLN!!!! Good Friday is not that big of deal to skip work!!! GOD!!!

By: Captain Spadaro

Captain Spadaro — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:06:21 +0000

Why does Kerkorian think he’s still important?

By: Madcapp

Madcapp — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:32:01 +0000

That dude is old and ugly, and I don’t want to look at him all weekend. Can we get a new story at the top, maybe some new pictures of the BMW 1 series convertible?

By: Blakkarr

Blakkarr — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:24:35 +0000

What we need is a company with a clean slate and a very clear and obvious goal. Maybe letting Chrysler die may not be a such a bad deal. But I can see, someone resetting Chrysler to meet new better goals, not just making money.

Okay enough dreaming. If Kerkorian can get ‘er done, then let him. Either that or DR.Z sucks it up and really works on making DCX actually work.

By: anyclearer

anyclearer — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:37:02 +0000

roadmaster, b you are mistaken if you think 18mpg is good …or even close to being good. And either you have to be poor or and envirmentalist? i am neither and i disagree. 18mph might have been good in the 70′s but today, mpg should have gone up.

By: 0GSharK6

0GSharK6 — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:58:58 +0000

Not much of a progress in gas mileage, but that’s a huge progress in efficiency. They take that and apply all the technology of that to a 130hp engine today and you get Honda/Toyota mileage.

By: meekin111

meekin111 — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:42:32 +0000

not enough progress

By: rerone

rerone — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:47:15 +0000

Kirk is probably the best choice for all concerned. Forget gas prices. You people must be very young. Adjusted for inflation, assuming you know what that means, gas is near an historic low. We were just spoiled for all those years with gas at 1.15-1.30. Fact is my 2005 320 hp Caddy gets 15.5 mpg in the city the same as my 1984 130hp Caddy got 22 years ago. I’m sorry, but that is progress.

By: Random Jerk

Random Jerk — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:20:07 +0000

Would all of LLN’s resident racist be happier if the Koreans or Chinese put a bid in?

By: F451

F451 — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:18:37 +0000

Kerkorian is a savvy investor who can make things happen. This should royally piss-off GM since Kerkorian is willing to sit at the table with the unions this will lessen GM’s chances—great power play. Kerkorian terms are interesting regarding the initial offer period.

By: Madcapp

Madcapp — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:04:05 +0000

I’m sure this makes perfect sense to Kerkorian…he looks like the average Chrysler customer.

By: roadmaster96

roadmaster96 — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:22:06 +0000

European V6′s and V8s devour fuel compared to American and Japanese ones. the only reason fuel economy in Europe is so high is because of DIESELS.

By: young insight

young insight — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:20:59 +0000

Ian McKellan (on crack) is buying chrysler?!

By: roadmaster96

roadmaster96 — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:48:05 +0000

HE was bad for Gm and will be bad for Chrysler. Maybe Blackwell is the best hope. As long as they don’t touch the 300c and Challenger I see no problem. BTW, very few cars out there get “bad” fuel economy. Its only all the late 90′s and early 2000s SUVs and pickups rolling around. Cars like the Corvette, mustang, 300C, upcoming camaro and WRX’s get 18 mpg in the city and mid to high teens on the highway. If you think that’s bad you’re either very poor or a hard core environmentalist. You wouldn’t be in the market for these cars regardless of fuel prices.

By: maximus

maximus — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:09:43 +0000

a fool and his money are soon parted?

By: gbb

gbb — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:36:52 +0000

Beats me how the Chrysler deal will come out.

I can tell you about the $5.00 gas. If it gets that high, you will buy it and go on about your buisness. We got no choice now do we? Maybe it will get some of the assholes in the little beaters off the road.

By: CTS DRIVER

CTS DRIVER — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:33:57 +0000

very interesting, i would rather see him in a chrylser/nissan/renault alliance than selling to the chineese.

By: car-a-holic

car-a-holic — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:29:15 +0000

Is he a nut job though? he seems oportunistic to a possibly damaging degree. he might have some good ideas…but if his history of suggestions like a merger with Renault/ Nissan and GM are considered…..he seems like really curious if not possibly disconnected loose cannon…..

By: golf4me

golf4me — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:10:14 +0000

It was only a matter of time before Kirky showed up in this…and this is probably the most acceptable solution for the UAW/CAW. This will get very interesting in a couple of months…

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:09:52 +0000

Put this and the 5 dollar a gallon price together and the future ain’t looking too good for chrysler