Re: IML: GM may want Chrysler

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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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