Chrysler bankruptcy: Grab a 08-09 Challenger while you can???!

[70burntorangeT/A]

BTW, got another 2010 Mustang dropped off the transport here at the dealership.  Convertible GT; ready for the price? ........$42,500 Intake must solid gold or something.

That is absolutely ridiculous, 42500 for a gt convertable. On ebay right now there is a brand new 09 GT500 for 39,990 and a roush 429R with a 435HP supercharged engine, also brand new for 41,499

[bb71challenger]

Kind of odd that Fiat with only a 35% stake in the company would have final decision over product line and distribution. God I hope this is not another crappy merger like the other one 

[Purple73Cuda]

I don't understand how getting involved with FIAT benefits Chrysler. It seems like it is a hastily put together merger. I pray that FIAT is not going to be running Chrysler. I can't take a repeat of the Daimler years.

[73Chally]

I don't understand how getting involved with FIAT benefits Chrysler. It seems like it is a hastily put together merger. I pray that FIAT is not going to be running Chrysler. I can't take a repeat of the Daimler years.

Chrysler will get Fiat's small car platform and engine technology, somehow valued at something like $10Billion.

[Bondavi]

$10 billion? for something like this? 

Chrysler will get Fiat's small car platform and engine technology, somehow valued at something like $10Billion.

[bb71challenger]

$10 billion? for something like this? 

Hell, anyone can graft a 95 neon front end onto an 87 Toyota minivan 

[troutstreamnm]

Geeze....that Fiat looks like an aerodynamic XB toaster car      What we all have to look forward too 

[hotrod98]

I didn't read every post so I may be repeating something. The bottom line is, the American people caused all of the current economic problems. Period.
We're greedy. We buy foreign cars over American cars. We buy gas guzzlers over economical cars. (We  are the ones that determine what the auto makers build). We use unions to extort more money from our employers. We get outlandish salaries and bonuses for doing nothing. We refuse to do menial, backbreaking, nasty jobs that we can talk our third world brethren into doing for us for cheap. We complain when we don't get our way. We waste money on everything in the world that we don't need rather than saving it for our future. We eat twice as much food in a day as our bodies need. Then, we blame the governement for all of our problems.
Bottom line...we're greedy, selfish, spoiled rotten rich kids. And the rest of the world knows it.

As for the current administration...there's no way that a president can repair in three months what it has taken the previous administration eight years to destroy. I applaud him for trying.

[lemming303]

Here's my thoughts.

Hybrid cars are WAY more expensive then regular cars. A new Ford Fusion Hybrid is 27,000 base price. Why would someone buy that when they can get a new Toyota or Scion that gets 35 to 40 mpg for 10 - 15 grand? Besides, Hybrids are only really better for city driving.

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with wanting a "Gas Guzzling Truck". I live in Texas, and almost everyone I know around here either does some hunting or fishing or both. I personally use my f150 all the time. I can't tell you how many times I've had to use the 4 wheel drive on it. I need that truck. Without it I can't do most of the things I do in my off time. But we also bought a used Nissan (I know, its not American) that gets 30 mpg. And it is tough! Everyone that I have known that has owned a Nissan has never had a problem with them. I can't say the same about the newer Fords/Chevys/Dodges (Especially the auto transmissions put in the last 10 years Dodge pickups)

I feel that if Obama hadn't hyped up the economy so bad it might not be quite as bad as it is now. And I understand that Congress helped with that, along with the media. But they caused the massive halt on people buying things, all the stocks to fall, and so on. People got so scared they stopped buying things, including new cars. It is only partially the creditors fault.

You can't only blame the banks for giving people huge loans they can't afford. If someone is making 3000 a month they need to be smart enough to know they can't afford a 1500 a month House payment! One of my best friends built a new house last year. The bank told him he was approved for 500,000! Holy crap! Can you imagine the payment on that! He told them he only wanted 200,000, which would put his payments at 1600, easily affordable on 7000 a month.

There are a lot things that factor into where we are now, and the Big 3s decisions are a small part of it.

[Bondavi]

Yup...42 MPG cars across the board by 2016....

You can kiss nice, American V-8 cars goodbye in relatively quick fashion and have Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Obama to thank for it. 

This forces makers to drop the high horsepower V-6/V-8 sports cars regardless of the market demand for it in order to pad up their CAFE averages by building trinket boxes.

What a way to twist the arms.

An option is a whole different President and balance of power in Congress by 2012 if enough people wise up.

[rallyechall]

Thank God Obama's car cost three hundred thousand dollars and gets less than 10 miles per gallon. I am glad to see his consistency in lying is still quite high.

[73Chally]

Yeah, Obama and the Dems are going to absolutely kill any kind of performance car market in the states.  Thank you all that voted for him.

[rallyechall]

Forgot to mention. that is for his Presidential Limo.

[N96cuda]

Yup...42 MPG cars across the board by 2016....

You can kiss nice, American V-8 cars goodbye in relatively quick fashion and have Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Obama to thank for it. 

This forces makers to drop the high horsepower V-6/V-8 sports cars regardless of the market demand for it in order to pad up their CAFE averages by building trinket boxes.

What a way to twist the arms.

An option is a whole different President and balance of power in Congress by 2012 if enough people wise up.

I thought it was 35 mpg across the board, 42 average for cars, 26 for light trucks. The exact numbers proposed by Bush, the only difference is Obama got everyone to agree to it, auto manufactures, environmental groups and even California. Otherwise they would have to build different emissions standard vehicles for certain states, countries, etc.
I could be wrong, but that is what I understood.

[N96cuda]

Thank God Obama's car cost three hundred thousand dollars and gets less than 10 miles per gallon. I am glad to see his consistency in lying is still quite high.

I'm not going to argue one way or the other, but he owned and drove a Chrysler 300 before the election.