Comments4u wrote:

This was really a stupid thing to post to r.a.m.chrysler.

The argument that someone would equate a Chrysler 300 or Charger as
being on the same choice-scale as Mercedes is complete horse shit.

Most people never knew that Chrysler was, for most of the past 10 years,
a division of Daimler, and Daimler never positioned Chrysler as a
"low-cost" option to Mercedes. Unlike the CVS and Ebay examples in this
story, a potential customer would never see a Chrysler vehicle and a
Mercedes in the same show room.

But it was true that Daimler helped drive Chrysler into bankruptcy by
forcing Chrysler to engineer their LX-based cars to use a substantial
amount of older E-class suspension and drive train components, while
gutting Chrysler's product development staff resulting in Chrysler's
current product crisis (limited number of small-car choices and no
economical mid-size car models).