This is unfortunate to hear, but I'm not surprised. The best that Chrysler has to offer is now merely class competitive. The worst are complete jokes. Everything else is just below average. Both GM and Ford have just released some very good products recently with more on the way over the next year or two. Chrysler hasn't and won't have much new stuff over the next couple years. What will happen to the Calibre when the Fiesta and Cruze hit the market? Updating their full size cars is a needed step, but they don't have too much direct competition either. Down the road in 2-5 years the Fiat partnership/ownership will begin to inject some life into the company, but I am doubtful that they'll make it that long.
They have nothing to stop the hemorrhaging. Over the last few months they've been doing ~25% worse than the rest of the industry and as their offerings lag further behind the competition their sales will continue to be poor. If they manage to hold out for 2 years, they might be fine. But thats a pretty big if.
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Originally Posted by garagelogic
It's not "paying the money back" when you are getting more than the loan amount given back to you in the form of tax breaks.
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Yes it is. Paying back a loan is paying back a loan no matter how it happens. A tax break is not a loan, no matter how convenient it may be to think of it as such. Deferred taxes are much closer to a loan, but they still get payed. At any rate, the money given doesn't begin to scratch the surface in the tax revenue generated by GM over the last 100+ years. By the way, keep in mind that this thread is about Chrysler not GM.
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Originally Posted by jrc1122
Last I checked buying Car companies, and controlling their decisions isn't in the Enumerated Powers of the US Constitution. Thus making it illegal to use my tax dollars to support individual companies. My tax dollars are collected for the sole purpose of paying for things in the enumerated powers, nothing more, nothing less.
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Good thing they're not controlling the decisions at those car companies then.