Lol, Ford just unloaded Land Rover and Jaguar to the Indians, dot-dot indians – not Native American, and the funny thing is that Jag sales are now up. Eitherway, if the reports are true that they are considering selling Volvo, I doubt that the are going to be looking at buying Jeep. The same could be said for GM whom needs to dump innovate/neglected Saab, kill Buick and merge Saturn & Pontiac into one company called Holden -Vauxhall because all of their autos are re-badges as it is.

“I’m sick of this sh*t. While I like and own vehicles from each of the big 3 I’ve always paid particular attention to all things Chrysler just because that was the first make of new car I remember my father buying. And to see it all boil down to this sucks. Car companies should be run by car people and neither Cerberus nor Nardelli fit that description. Oh well, by the sounds of it we won’t have to wait long to see what happens when the well runs dry.

If anyone still cares, I heard recently that in Canada 75% of all the Jeep Grand Cherokees are being sold with the 3.0 diesel compared to just 3% in the US. If that’s in any way indicative of the average US buyer, I can see why so many automakers are hesitant about going that route.”

Well said. I remember my father buying a 1985 Dodge Aries K-Car that literally saved Chrysler. Bad quality, but it saved them. Unfortunately, as many others have said about them doing to themselves with what they are dealing with right now, it’s true.

For a car company, I’d say more than any other company, it comes down to almost one thing: product, product, product. Some new cars out there you couldn’t give away.

ChryCo vehicles are not all gas suckin hogs and currently our line of small vehicles. Avenger, Caliber, and notably the small Jeep Compass and Patriot are selling very well, cannot get enough…

Maybe that’s just the hot economy in Alberta. Yee haw let the oil flow!!!

But this isn’t a case of being murdered by the market; it’s assisted suicide. They had a huge chance in the ’80s after Iacocca brought ‘em back singlehandedly, but you will never see a golden opportunity squandered more completely.

At least Cerberus will have the cold hard eye to do the best thing from a business standpoint: sell Jeep to Ford or GM, sell the minivan line to VW (they’ve already got a Chrysler clone coming out anyway), close down everything else, and try to turn a dollar with Mopar into the future.

Sorry, but Jack Welch at GE used to say if you can’t be #1 or #2 in a given line of work, you should get out. Except for Jeeps and minivans, Chrysler is about #6 or #7 in every line where it plays… and falling, not rising.

They won’t make it as is.

Ford and GM are open book. Look at quarterly statement and you can see them bleeding their own cash faster then their cars can drive. And those 2 are not subject to their owner whim, but subject to regulatory regulations.

If anyone still cares, I heard recently that in Canada 75% of all the Jeep Grand Cherokees are being sold with the 3.0 diesel compared to just 3% in the US. If that’s in any way indicative of the average US buyer, I can see why so many automakers are hesitant about going that route.

**While it lasts.