Why GM Wants Chrysler and What it Means for the Domestic Auto Industry - Car and Driver

Editor-in-chief Csaba Csere explores the myths and possible synergies of Chrysler and GM merging.

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[tamainemiller]

ohhh hell naw i will never drive a lame ass TOYOTA!!!!!!!! my dick is to damn big for a toyota!!!!

i will get a ford!!!!!!!!

[Janusha]

Because they keep making very bad business choices at top level. There seems to be a notion that smaller cars = smaller profit. And there is alot of "ok its not great.. but its cheap" Being cheap is ok but when it feels cheap and falls apart after 3 years its not so cheap anymore. And if anyone showed up in Europe now with leaf springs and steel frame in a new car they would be laughed at. Maybe they should let Chrysler and GM run themselves into the grave and let a new generation take over.

[aaronamerine]

lol a dodge ram with a vortec/deramax lol that'll pill of them dodge guys lol

[liveoilfree]

Looks like this is HISTORIC INTEREST ONLY, GM WENT BANKRUPT due to MANAGEMENT FAILURE and COLLUSION WITH BIG OIL and can't even buy a cuppa coffee.

[jasonxgg]

GM + CHRYSLER=MONOPOLY

[GuitarSnipper]

More people are looking for a car that lasts and is great on gas. GM has lost a big market to Honda. Nothing that GM has fits the same market as the Civic. The motors last forever if you treat them right. Most of the car is simple to fix. GM little cars don't last very long and have all kinds of gizmos that make them hard for a ower to repair or replace themselfs to save a few bucks. This is what the people want. With high gas prices and a bad economy.

[Janusha]

Americans have supported their own country for many years by buying american cars. The pickup truck sales forexample has held the american car business alive for the last decade. Now that, for what ever reasons, financial or otherwise even the americans stop buying american cars, thats when it failed totally. But its been in steady decline internationally for decades because other countries has become accustomed to far better gas mileage and quality.

[dmelkumo]

sounds like your dick is bigger than your brain.

[JoeLounsbury2004]

Like everyone else on here, you are making highly uneducated guesses and assumptions. SUVs are out selling cars for december right now. Secondly Toyota is posting a loss. THIS WHOLE PROBLEM IS THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. As for leaf springs and steel frames, lets see a unibody coil over IRS system pull 12,500 lbs. When you design a brick and a pillow, you use differnt engineering strategies. A pillow you want comfort, a brick strength, a truck is more like a brick and a car is like a pillow....

[JoeLounsbury2004]

You are correct, the main problem with the car companies is firstly the financial crisis. Secondly the automakers were weak but not broken before the crisis. They were weak because they've been around so long that nearly 2 million people haven't died when the actuaries calculated them to. So this leads to the big 3 in having higher legacy costs than the new commers.

[JoeLounsbury2004]

What mic01 is talking about is toyota and the big 3 share parts. An easier thing to compare this to is computers, you got DELL, HP, ACER and even APPLE. All these computers SHARE A ton, NVIDIA, ATI, INTEL, AMD BROADCOM PNY etc. If lets say DELL and HP went out of business, everyone else would be screwed because intel or nvidia may take a hit.

Things like powertrains are assembled of parts from suppliers that are in common. Steel mills make steel, part stampers stamp parts for all the big 6.

[JBomber22]

what you ppl dont realize is that if the auto industry fails, then there goes 5 - 7 million jobs...how do you think that will effect the economy...you would never recover and possibly completely collapse your economy...they need this bail out, for the sake of the whole free world depends on it...why sell out to the foreigners, what happened to supporting your own country, you cant turn your backs on them