The Marriage and Divorce of DC

Latest Car and Driver has a good article on it in this month's issue. Anyone
hear read it? If so, do you agree with the author?

Ken

--
"Now Phoebe Snow direct can go
from thirty-third to Buffalo.
From Broadway bright the tubes run right
Into the Road of Anthracite"
Erie - Lackawanna

 

Haven't seen it, but the marriage failed because of Mercedes, and at
this point it's the best thing.

 

I certainly agreed, and when I look at what I drove for the last 10 years, I
apparently voted with my pocketbook. I've had 3 first-gen LH cars, and I
don't see where anything on the market today is really an improvement in the
combination of economy and performance. That's saying something.

I had not thought much about the product cycles that were "killed" and the
future that never was as a result of the takeover. Those opportunities are
lost. Whatever those products should have been, it's too late to go back
now.

I will say this - the timing is not all that bad for Chrysler. They have
some new products out that aren't Mercedes underneath, and their Mercedes
products (like the 300) are pretty much due for replacement pretty soon.

 

I still don't see one I'd buy.

Let it be gone!

 

Well, me neither. I'm not in the market for something like a Dodge Avenger.
But you have to admit, it's certainly not a Mercedes.

I have read that they have done quite well selling the new Chrysler Sebring.
They decided to make the smallest engine available on the highest trim
level, and that has really been selling the cars to people interested in gas
mileage. Most of the car mags have really panned it for not being as nice
as a Honda, but they would probably do that no matter what. I don't want
one, but I can certainly see my wife driving one.