Looks like no one wants your crap Chrysler.

It just goes to show you how out of touch they are with what people want. The whole management should have been fired 3 yrs ago. How can it take them so long to realize they were making inferior cars that nobody wanted? How many yrs does it take to get it right?

ew toyota

I have this vision of Nardelli going to these meetings wearing lipstick, a blond wig, short skirt, heels and a push-up bra. Ouch. I think it’s best if I stay off the roads this evening.

cerberus….”we don’t have an exit plan…”

New Company Slogan: Chrysler….cars so bad even the Chinese don’t want them.

hahaha Look I think its a mistake for a superior japanese company like Toyota to associate with the likes of GM let alone Chrysler

orange, thats funny!

I bet they were excited when they asked VW, and then quickly became pant-pooping shocked when the said, “aghh aghh agh… NO!”

1115: Your premise is just irredeemably wrong, but your point is valid: Not much for toyota to gain. Why augment dreck you can sell with dreck you can’t sell?

So we, consumers, not suppose to buy Jap and Korean “crap” cars, but our famed captains of automotive industry were selling wholesale to them everything and anything; except nobody was buying. I love those nationalistic slogans!

Wonder how Exfiat and Buyamerican will spin this?

Borat leave Japs out of that comment, they are nothing like chinese or korean underlings.

I was just paraphrasing. I was stationed in Japan and Korea, I know the difference very well.

I’d like to walk into th board office of FIAT,(if I had enough money to get controling shares) & say: “Nardelli, you’re fired!”

Marchionne, you’re also fired.

Borat:

where were you stationed in Japan?

How embarrassing.

Yokota, flew over and stayed for short (well sometimes not that short) periods of time.

Everyone mark my words – This merger will failk and Nissan Financial should have accepted the proposed Nissan-Renault merger. If the economy didn’t suck so bad middle of last year, we wouldn’t be talkinf about FIat right now, but which Renault models would be in Chrysler dealers by years end.

Never been to Yokota. But I have been to Tokyo

This is either tragi-pathetic or patheti-tragic. Either way, the American motoring public isn’t exactly mobbing the shipping piers screaming for new Fiats, so this is only going to get worse (and sadder).

Yokota is in burbs of Tokyo. Of course burbs of 10 million city is size of a small size Latin American country or medium size European. I like Tokyo, I prefer European cities, but Tokyo has its charm.

TomF you are right, but FIAT does have what Chrysler doesn’t (efficient car technology) and can get from Chrysler something it does not have: base of operation in US along with some successful products. FIAT is tiny but very unique company. It sells not only cars, but provides technology for competition. Just like Japanese smaller companies do now and most of auto industry was doing in 30’s- 60’s.

Borat, I too was stationed in Japan, but I was down on Kyushu in Sasebo. We’d stop in to Yokosuka for training about once a year. I agree, Tokyo has a vibe to it thats hard to beat elsewhere.

But as for Fiat, I dont know why everyone and the media keep refering to them as having “efficient car tech”. Since when did making tiny cars become “tech”? Its pretty much a given that a small light car has better gas mileage that a heavy large one. Then again, looking at their current line up, I guess it took Chrysler merging with another company to figure that out.

I was at Misawa.

Everyone knows (except apparently Cerberus) Daimler stripped Chrysler of any value years ago

F— Chrysler. Just for trying so HARD to sell out to the CHINESE!?!?

If anything, Ronald Perelman and AM General should buy out Chrysler. Discontinue the FWD crap they make that no one’s buying, maybe bring back the Magnum, discontinue everything from Jeep except the Wrangler and Grand Cherokee… and maybe bring back the XJ Cherokee.