I received this this morning from MyRide.com.

Some of you may find it interesting...

http://www.myride.com/content/shared/articles/templates/index.cfm/article_page_order_int/1/article_id_int/6381

Stay safe...


Respectfully,


Paul (MisterTaz)

 

Good find Taz! thanks.

I loved the answers. pretty up beat and pretty hopeful. Or should I say hollow.

Keep in mind that Nardelli is still at the helm for a while and the Obama slick retoric is in play.

Nardelli is a bean counter, not a car guy. He couldn't sell lumber and power tools during a building boom and almost put Home Depot out of business. He did this mostly by taking the value out of the products they were selling.

Same thing at Chrysler.

During the 90's Chrysler had exciting produsts with a lot of value added features. My son still drives his 95 LHS and it is a wonderfuly appointed car with great reliability. My 95 One ton is still going strong after 15 years of hard service and pulling a float trailer much of its life.

I wouldn't touch anything coming off their lines since the breakup with Diamler.

And now that a bunch of Washington lawyers are helping with the designs, I'm not comforted.

They can put a Chysler sticker on the hood, but the Fiat 500 isn't getting me hot. How about you?

Note the reference to Fiat's low CO2 emissions record. This is why President Barry insisted on a Fiat merger, to the point of forcing the government extorted bankruptcy.

Bean counters, lawyers and politicians can probably design cars they think the country needs.

To compete and survive, Chrysler needs car guys who will build products Americans will buy.


roadster with a stick

 

Just how long will it take for the new management-by-consensus to actually agree on a concept and then actually put a new-and-improved product into the show room?

How in the world can any company carry a bazillion-dollar-a-day fixed cost enterprise for any period of time like this without utter financial meltdown above and beyond the current $20B bankruptcy?

Who's kidding whom?