Since one of the poll options is "I think of it as a Chrysler", and I answered and gave facts as to why I think of it as a Chrysler, then I would say it has E_V_E_R_Y_T_H_I_N_G- to do with what we're saying here and is easy to understand with a little bit of reading comprehension, that you might want to practice up on.
To answer the question that I posed DCX is the (NYSE) exchange abbreviation for DaimlerCHRYSLER. So in fact Chrysler owned, at least in part, every part that was put on the Crossfire. So the underpinnings or anything else on the car are not exclusively Mercedes but part Chrysler, only through acquisition, but still part Chrysler at the time. Designed by Mercedes? Yes, but some of that was probably outsourced, if that's the case then does that mean that it wasn't designed by Mercedes? Built by Karmann? Yes, assembled by Karmann, I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. If I take my car apart in my garage and reassemble it does that mean it's now an American built car? Technically yes, but that doesn't change that it is a DaimlerChrysler vehicle. I'm sure a lot of the raw steels and alloys came from China so does that make it a Chinese car? How far back do we go? Do we take it back to the mines where the raw ore was mined, are they responsible for the car? Bottom line is it's a car. It's a conglomeration of parts whose sum equals a mode of transportation. It's just not that critical.
I do have one other question though. How come whenever there's something bad to say about the car it's a Chrysler and whenever there's something good to say about it it's a Mercedes? It never seems to be a merger car it is always one or the other. Maybe I should figure out some way to make this into another pointless poll to try to get my answer. By the way that's a rhetorical question.