Chrysler May Expand Joint Venture with China’s Chery

dante April 15th, 2008 3:52 PM Link

At least it shouldn’t affect their quality ratings.

chartguy April 15th, 2008 3:57 PM Link

First, it was Chrysler and Nissan, now it’s Chrysler and Chery. Sounds like Chrysler has more ability to produce cars than there are people who want to buy them.

rageous April 15th, 2008 4:34 PM Link

Just what we needed here - more crappy chinese products.

Trinks April 15th, 2008 4:41 PM Link

rageous- That’s what they said about Korean cars not too long ago. While you may not think much of them either, there’s no denying that they are now quality cars and people are buying a lot of them.

mo April 15th, 2008 10:56 PM Link

at chartguy, these collaboration of chrysler with other makers proves that chrysler CAN’T build cars. look at both agreements. they can’t afford developing a new small sized car and so they are offering giving up the ram with nissan, and probably a huge share of profit to chery. chrysler would be better if they kept nissan away from the truck competition and if they took all the profit behind small cars.
look at GM, they are building their own mini car. that is what chrysler wanna do but can’t afford.
I only hope Chrysler doesn’t make these cars so ugly as the rest of the line.

Ducati Minor April 15th, 2008 11:18 PM Link

mo, Chrysler can build cars; it makes more economic sense to partner with other businesses to reduce costs and simplify operations. GM shares production with Toyota with the Pontiac Vibe–a re-badged Toyota Matrix (which, in itself, is a Corolla hatchback).

Chrysler is by no means giving up the truck to Nisaan anymore than GM was to Isuzu. Nissan failed to make an impact in the pickup market and is in need of continuing its place in light truck development. The Nissan Titan never approached the Dodge Ram in numbers; future Nissan trucks won’t either. But Nissan could cut costs by borrowing Dodge pickup frames.

Trinks is correct about the Koreans. The same was said about the Japanese in the 1960s.

chris April 16th, 2008 8:50 AM Link

Ditto DM

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Russ Bellinis April 16th, 2008 3:10 PM Link

Is any American car company going to try to build a mini-car in America? The American companies have never made money on small cars as far as I know. The difference between Chrysler and rest of the “big three” is that Chrysler had to jettison all of their foreign holdings as part of their strategy that ultimately resulted in their bail out under Iaccoca’s leadership 30 years ago. G.M. and Ford have European and Japanese holdings to subcontract their small car production.

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