Which will it be ?

GM, Chrysler hold merger discussions

Personally, I don't think they will unite. Chrysler's been down this road before.

How about Buffet Motors ? Or even Buffet Electric ? Or maybe Buffet, Goldman & Sachs.

Before we dig ourselves out of this hole, we may be seeing some big time mergers.

Originally Posted by RYou

Which will it be ?

GM, Chrysler hold merger discussions

Gee Chrys

Sounds like Studebaker-Packard all over again*... or, Sears and KMart coming together. In other words, two weakened partners coming together perhaps out of "necessity" but not really making much together.

Then again, maybe it'll be DaimlerChrysler all over again. At first, that merger seemed to make zero sense... then we saw how both sides of the Atlantic benefitted (Chrysler got Mercedes' engineering leadership in safety and in rear-wheel-drive technology that led to exciting products such as the Chrysler 300/Dodge Charger/Dodge Challenger... while Mercedes got a cheaper source for many components, such as six-speed automatic transmissions made in Chrysler plants in Kokomo, Indiana). But that marriage came apart...

Mark

* 50 years ago, there were two legendary US car companies: Studebaker, which was a smallish middle-class brand trying to compete with the Big Three (GM, Ford and Chrysler)... and Packard, a luxury brand that had a reputation that surpassed Cadillac or Lincoln. They came together as two money-losing businesses, and within five years or so, the combined company was gone.

Is Lee Iacocca available?

My first car was AMC (Javelin). Not sure how old AMC was or who swallowed them up.

It wouldn't be practical to ban the import of foreign automobiles, but what do you think would result if such a move actually happened?