Re: IML: GM may want Chrysler Imperial Mailing list!!

[Jeff Ingraham <jeff_ingraham@xxxxxxxxx>]

Folks!
  This is the IMperial Mailing list!
  I asked nicely yesterday morning to please take this
off topic dicussion to the Salon.
Today we hear of Renault, Astro Mini-vans, Voyagers,
GM, chinese etc.
Please STOP this thread here and move it to the Salon!
Jeff INgraham
Moderator


 
--- DON SAVARD <don_savard@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 
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>   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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