One buyer we've seemed to miss in this thread. Renault/Peugeot!! They are
flush with money(GM is still bleeding red ink and so is Ford) and they want back
in the American market at a cheap price. Chrysler's dealerships would give them
that and also add more models per dealership. And sounds like they would
be getting a discount price. Also the Koreans or even the Chinese. The
Chinese have fat wallets and this would be an opportunity too good to miss.
One must look beyond the American brands for buyers-I know Daimler would not
turn down a fair offer from ANYBODY!! Ten years ago who would have
considered one of the Big 3 owned by a foreign entity.
Don Savard
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 4:49
PM
Subject: Re: IML: GM may want
Chrysler
I fear that the only reason GM would buy Chrysler would be to
close it
down and get rid of the competition. They might keep Jeep, since
they
don't have anything in that class that sells like Jeep does, and
maybe
Chrysler's mini-vans, which have always been the class leaders.
I guess
GM's Astro never sold as well as expected because it was actually a
truck
van, not a usable stationwagon, which is what Chrysler always sold. I
can
tell you from about 500,000 miles of experience, if you wanted a van
that
took the road space of a Horizon, but carried 8, and towed a 5,000
lb
trailer, Astro was all there was. Aerostar was noisy, anemic, and
blew
around in the wind like an old fashioned VW Bug. Plymouth
Voyager didn't
make much noise, but it wouldn't go, either, and did rock in
the wind, but
pretty well went where you aimed it. The Astro was rock
solid in the
wind, had 1 1/2 times the engine, and a rated towing capacity
of 5,000
lbs, which I routinely
exceeded.
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