I think the guy is pretty well spot on. Even my dad, who was a Chrysler employee almost his entire career, hated the thought of Daimler taking over the company. He never believed, from day 1, that it was a "merger of equals" as Daimler called it. In the years leading up to the takeover Chrysler was considered to be the design leader among the Big 3, could build a car faster and more efficiently than GM and Ford and had a pile of cash on hand. Daimler crushed all of that, and crushed it hard.

And yet, for some bizarre reason, I still really like Mercedes Benz automobiles.