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    Quote Originally Posted by IBrake4Rainbows View Post
    Chrysler- the Automotive Hot-Potato.
    Taking over this much-coveted mantle from the long-entrenched holders, the British auto industry, was no easy task.
    Chrysler would like to thank all the corporations that have owned it over the years.
    Thank you, and good night.


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    Quote Originally Posted by f6fhellcat13 View Post
    Taking over this much-coveted mantle from the long-entrenched holders, the British auto industry, was no easy task.
    Chrysler would like to thank all the corporations that have owned it over the years.
    Thank you, and good night.


    and fondly reflects on the period when it owned the Rootes Group....
    Last edited by henk4; 11-11-2008 at 11:25 PM.
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    Once upon a time they owned Lambo too.
    EDIT: What is this Rootes Group?
    How the less-mighty-than-Ford-and-GM have fallen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by f6fhellcat13 View Post
    Once upon a time they owned Lambo too.
    EDIT: What is this Rootes Group?
    Google is your friend...
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    Quote Originally Posted by henk4 View Post
    Google is your friend...
    And Wikipedia is my wife...

    Owning Rootes does not seem like something to be proud of.
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    Quote Originally Posted by f6fhellcat13 View Post
    And Wikipedia is my wife...

    Owning Rootes does not seem like something to be proud of.
    a sign of things to come, may be
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    by the 70s Chrysler would be bleeding money, so that ~5 years after acquiring Rootes, but when they bought Rootes initially, they were riding high.
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    Nissan has been trying to work a deal to badge the Ram as a Titan for quite a while, so I could see Nissan buying up the trucks division (which also comes with an exclusive contract with Cummins for engines and Mercedes-Benz for transmissions)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan View Post
    Nissan has been trying to work a deal to badge the Ram as a Titan for quite a while, so I could see Nissan buying up the trucks division (which also comes with an exclusive contract with Cummins for engines and Mercedes-Benz for transmissions)
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    Quote Originally Posted by NSXType-R View Post
    Some people have really polarized opinions.
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    I don't have a polarized opinion.

    Ok maybe a bit. Well possibly a lot...

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    Quote Originally Posted by henk4 View Post
    and fondly reflects on the period when it owned the Rootes Group....
    The Rootes reference makes me think of something else.

    Is (will be) GM the American British Leyland?
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    Quote Originally Posted by f6fhellcat13 View Post
    I konw, but I find it quite hilarious, and I don't know why.
    I seem to remember GM and some Euro company sharing gearboxes, I can't remeber which but I doubt they're suffering as much as Detroit.
    probably you remember of the Fiat-GM broken marriage.

    GM bought the 5% of Fiat, and was supposed to buy the whole thing in some years. obviously the couldn't. they were also supposed to develop petrol engine and chassis, while the Fiat Group was supposed to develop diesel engines and transmissions. GM developed some chassis, while the petrol engine were...a V6 Holden under an Alfa Romeo bonnet, and some crapy 1.8/1.9 and 2.2 petrol engines. Fiat developed al the current diesel line-up used in Eu by the GM's brands, apart from the Isuzu V6 3.0.
    the final thing that "ruined" the happy marriage was the fact that GM wanted to use Fiat diesel engines on Daewoo (now Chevrolet in Eu and NA, or GM Daewoo in Korea and somewhere else) but without the agreement of Fiat. there was a rule in the pre-marriage contract which stated that ant technology to be used on a third party could be used so/sold just with the agreement of both parties. at that time, iirc, Daewoo wasn't onwed by GM. Gm purchased Daewoo so to fix the problem, but it was too late. some minor sharing is still going on, especially with Suzuki which isn't a GM's company anymore.

    sort of.
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    GM still uses Fiat's diesels to date.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    GM still uses Fiat's diesels to date.
    yeah, that's a part of previous agreements iirc, what I meant is that there are some new agreements going on established after the divorce. maybe the diesel things are based on those new agreements. that's what comes to mind right now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeonOfTheDead View Post
    yeah, that's a part of previous agreements iirc, what I meant is that there are some new agreements going on established after the divorce. maybe the diesel things are based on those new agreements. that's what comes to mind right now.
    AFAIK Opels using the new 2 litre FPT diesels is part of the old agreement, just like both GM and Fiat retaining the rights to develop new cars based on the Compact platform (Punto's and Corsa's).

    After what happened I doubt FGA and GM have any further agreements.
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    Hyundai buying Jeep from Chrysler? The results of that purchase would be very interesting.
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