Comments on: Tough sell: Chrysler attempted to forge partnerships with at least 14 companies, including Toyota

By: olds307

olds307 — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:04:38 +0000

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.

By: shaver

shaver — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:45:37 +0000

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

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:42:15 +0000

I was at Misawa.

By: SoTXFord

SoTXFord — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:18:21 +0000

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.

By: Borat

Borat — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:55:53 +0000

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.

By: TomF

TomF — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:12:19 +0000

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).

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:06:59 +0000

Never been to Yokota. But I have been to Tokyo

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:07:58 +0000

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.

By: Borat

Borat — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:05:09 +0000

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

By: JMBII

JMBII — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:02:20 +0000

How embarrassing.

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:33:18 +0000

Borat:

where were you stationed in Japan?

By: Jon Luc

Jon Luc — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:32:01 +0000

Marchionne, you’re also fired.

By: Jon Luc

Jon Luc — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:28:24 +0000

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!”

By: Borat

Borat — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:46:14 +0000

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

By: Barry Obama

Barry Obama — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:40:08 +0000

Wonder how Exfiat and Buyamerican will spin this?

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

By: Borat

Borat — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:25:40 +0000

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!

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:38:03 +0000

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?

By: idrinorbarsaku

idrinorbarsaku — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:35:21 +0000

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!”

By: tripleonefive

tripleonefive — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:25:37 +0000

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

By: orangecones

orangecones — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:40:43 +0000

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

By: No More Oil For Toyota

No More Oil For Toyota — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:36:54 +0000

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

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:15:34 +0000

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.

By: A4

A4 — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:04:54 +0000

ew toyota

By: NRG

NRG — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:04:26 +0000

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?

By: swamp donkey

swamp donkey — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:00:24 +0000

Looks like no one wants your crap Chrysler.