- no need to deal with chrysler’s pensions and healthcare issues

- no need to deal with chrysler’s mopey and antiquated dealerships

- no need to try to address the worthless chrysler brand

- no need to handle chrysler warranty issues

for $5 billion you can get all the manufacturing, design, and location real estate you need and then some, on a clean slate

if private equity does buy chrysler, it will simply be a strip job, they will just gut it, load it up with debt, give it a new logo and sell it again

private equity wants to make money in three years or less, not build cars for a generation

gbb

Who in their right mind would pick up this mess? You’d have to be a whole lot more patriotic than sane.

Designs are good, but the engineering has always been the problem. Who knows, nothing tried-nothing gained!

Contrary to current belief, Chrysler’s last glory days were in the 1940’s when it was No. 2 behind General Motors. It lost that position when it foolishly took a UAW strike, which it lost. It came out of the strike as No. 3 and hasn’t been the same since.

It has had its moments–pioneering the “Light Cars” of the 1950’s and its storied prowess in NASCAR back in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. It set record profits following the release of the Aspen and Volare–cars produced without benefit of engineers. The very next year, it was in Washington begging for a bailout.

We know what Chrysler has been in the 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000’s. Chrysler has serious problems which cannot be solved by a bunch of rich guys’ buying it on a lark.

I think that the possbility of offshore ownership should be dismissed and no longer considered. Personnally, I would like to see GM buy it. However, I have yet to close the loop on making a GM buyout work for either GM or Chrysler.

You mean like Haliburton? What’s better marketing than to pander to the real American patriotic motorists–”show your support for the American troops, drive a Jeep”, “when you buy a Dodge, you kill a terrorist!”, “they hate your big Hemi, because they hate your freedom!”– oh wait…

Keeping plants open when there’s no economic sense behind it is wrong. Getting product right is a good idea, but it shouldn’t be done to keep a plant open. It should be done for its own reasons, and they’ll still have plenty of capacity without Delaware.

GIving up on Mitsu and Hyundai is going back to a place where they simply cannot compete on their own. Chrysler realized it cannot make a small or midsized car well or profitably, so it tapped partners who are good at doing this. They’d really be foolish to do otherwise.

Nice guy, but quite unfounded and naive in his recommendations. Very out of touch with the realities of modern automotive business strategy or the global environment.

PS-I wish them all the luck with the UAW.

seriously guys, bring it back, it could rock again.