Chrysler & Chery + One Mean Dog
May 22 2007 3:46PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (8) |
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Almost-divorced Chrysler may have to do some fast talking to resurrect its important partnership with Chery Automobile Co. of China. As you might recall, Chery was scheduled to build low-cost subcompact cars which Chrysler would market in the United States. Important deal for a company that has been surviving on gas-guzzling hemis and trucks under its Daimler ownership. According to some published articles, Chery had some reservations when it was announced that Chrysler would be spun out. Tom LaSorda will remain CEO of Chrysler under Cerberus Capital Management, and announced he wants to expand the relationship with Chery. I think this will work out fine. Daimler had a poor track record in its dealings with Asian partners (Mitsubishi and Hyundai Motor). Chrysler will make it work, because it has to work. Cerberus is a word in Greek mythology for a three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades. We know that auto manufacturing in Detroit today is modern-day Hades, and we’ll find out soon enough if this dog can hunt.
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at 6/12/2007 10:32:09 AM, John Richards said:
Let's see....poisoned livestock and pet food (melamine) poisoned cough medecine and toothpaste (ethlyne glycol) and a plethora of junk, low quality mechandise flooding this country while people are losing thier jobs to China......I'd rather walk than buy a car made by Chery. Shame on anyone who would buy one !!!
at 6/12/2007 12:47:41 PM, Ken said:
To hell with the Chinese want our business expertise and our money then they want to destroy us they cannot be trusted all they want is war with us.
at 6/12/2007 1:51:17 PM, CarlK said:
These two softies, John & Ken forgot China undervaluing its Renminbi/Yuan, unFair-Trade tarrifs and firing a high-power laser at a US spy satellite.
at 6/13/2007 5:11:04 AM, ol'time design checker said:
Will Chinese auto manufacturers use the same conterfeit steel fasteners and firetrap electronics they make now in the vehicles they build?
at 6/13/2007 7:24:48 AM, John Richards said:
I agree with all of you. I think all they want is our business expertise, and once they have that, they will kick the American business people out. Of course we'll be screwed because most of our manufacturing will be in CHINA, thanks to the greed and stupidity of our business people !
at 6/14/2007 6:04:37 AM, Sum Dim said:
But you gotta admit they have good food.
at 6/22/2007 2:56:39 PM, TimC said:
No I don't agree. I have had Chinese food in China, and I am here to tell you, the real thing is an acquired taste.
Most Chinese food loved in America like Egg Rolls and Chop Suey, was invented here by immigrants trying to find something their wealthier white neighbors liked. Good marketing and hard work on their part. Kudos to our Chinese immigrnats who truly like being with us.
But I don't buy Chinese made goods if I can help it and that means little if any fireworks on the 4th of July. That shounds tuff for a good patriot, but you really need to hear it out of thier own mouths how much they despise us and want to destroy us and... still want us to buy their stuff so they can amass enough money to take over for us. They think they can get their by laying low and us dumb Americans will keep cooperating with them. Time to cite the trade surplus and exchange rate. But our most powerful weapon of all is to just stop buying Chinese whever you possibly can because your opinion of them is just too low. As their trade slows they will wake up. We went through this with a few other trade partners. At some point they wake up to how important the generous opinion of the American Populace is. Din-ding-ding-ding-ding... time to wake up China. In the words of a famous Chinese philosopher, "this too shall pass".
at 12/3/2007 8:48:07 AM, Bob Welch said:
As mentioned above we are dumb Americans. We enjoy so much freedom and yet are unable to accept that another country wants to destroy us and all that we stand for. Knowing how much US currency is in China at this time they are very close to controlling us with our own money. Time to pull our heads out of the sand or our derrie's. TIME TO WAKE UP AMERICA!!
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