Merc flogs Chrysler

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653277.stm

80.1% of Chrysler (including pension & healthcare costs) sold to venture
capital.

In article <Xns99308B736B146adrianachapmanfreeis (AT) 204 (DOT) 153.245.131>,
Adrian <toomany2cvs (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653277.stm

80.1% of Chrysler (including pension & healthcare costs) sold to venture
capital.

And I read BMW are thinking of buying Volvo and or Alfa.

Seems they never learn...

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Adrian wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653277.stm

80.1% of Chrysler (including pension & healthcare costs) sold to venture
capital.

'Bout time too. Perhaps they'll get back to building to Mercedes standards
again now.

Steve Firth (usenet-urcm (AT) malloc (DOT) co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653277.stm

80.1% of Chrysler (including pension & healthcare costs) sold to venture
capital.

Will be reported in the US press as "Chrysler ditches loss-making
Daimler division."

<grin>

$36bn merger, $5bn sale. Definitely Chrysler levels of depreciation...

Steve Firth wrote:

So typical Chrysler, not only is the depreciation vertical but the
seller has to pay a fortune to put the vehicle in good condition
before anyone will buy it.

<Chryslers Anonymous>

"My name's Grant and I really, *really* like the idea of a 300C" [1]

Depreciation seems to be glacial at the moment - they're 26k new and you
can't buy a 2 year old one for less than 20k.






[1] I get the feeling that the first time I drove one, that would all
change....

Steve Firth wrote:

checks autotrader

Yup, several 2005 Hemis for sale from £15,000 to £20,000. And in fact
a couple of low mileage 2006 diseasels for sale for less than 20K.

Weird. A national search of every 300C only for me only brings up a couple
of Dodge Magnums and LHD imports under 20k.

Half price Hemi, you say? Must resist.

Grant (news (AT) mason (DOT) sh) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

checks autotrader

Yup, several 2005 Hemis for sale from £15,000 to £20,000. And in fact
a couple of low mileage 2006 diseasels for sale for less than 20K.

Weird. A national search of every 300C only for me only brings up a
couple of Dodge Magnums and LHD imports under 20k.

I'm with you on this one, Grant - just seeing one 05/55 RHD v6 petrol for a
fiver under £20k - and a bunch of cack-hander v8s.

Dave Plowman (News) <dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

In article <Xns99308B736B146adrianachapmanfreeis (AT) 204 (DOT) 153.245.131>,
Adrian <toomany2cvs (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653277.stm

80.1% of Chrysler (including pension & healthcare costs) sold to venture
capital.

And I read BMW are thinking of buying Volvo and or Alfa.
^^^^

Nooooooooooo!

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SteveH (steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

And I read BMW are thinking of buying Volvo and or Alfa.

Nooooooooooo!

I was reading something on that earlier - they *considered* buying Alfa,
and abandoned the idea, before they *considered* buying Volvo, and
abandoned THAT idea, too...

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsAr...llCars/225528/

Adrian <toomany2cvs (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

SteveH (steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

And I read BMW are thinking of buying Volvo and or Alfa.

Nooooooooooo!

I was reading something on that earlier - they *considered* buying Alfa,
and abandoned the idea, before they *considered* buying Volvo, and
abandoned THAT idea, too...

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsAr...llCars/225528/

<breathes huge sigh of relief>
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SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL
BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #