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Post by oldschoolcruiser on Feb 18, 2007 14:59:25 GMT -5
Imagine the possibilities........ Maybe they'll quit making the GM garbage they've been as of late. Then bring back the Riviera (dead as of '99) and put a HEMI in it!  |
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Post by benny on Feb 18, 2007 15:41:16 GMT -5
it was the other way around...Daimler is considering terminating their agreement with Chrysler. Most likely will not happen.
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Post by oldschoolcruiser on Feb 18, 2007 19:37:07 GMT -5
After all the losses GM has suffered lately I don't know how they could even afford to buy Chrysler.
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Post by benny on Feb 18, 2007 20:21:05 GMT -5
Gm has enough money to buy Chrysler but it wouldn't do them any good. There was a big news item on cnn a couple days ago. GM is still alot bigger than chrysler and chrysler doesn't have the assets to buy GM nor do they consider that option. Chrysler could go under and I doubt a helping hand from Sammy would be offered
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Post by 95gts on Feb 18, 2007 21:59:51 GMT -5
The only thing holding Ford and GM together is they have so much $$$ on hand.
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Post by 65cuda on Feb 19, 2007 14:00:08 GMT -5
This don`t surprise me, we will eventually end up with one auto maker in the U.S. and even then, the parts are made from somewhere in the black forest. It a monopoly, corporate America, its the same as the large dept stores buying up the smaller ones and closing them down, the company I work for bought up just about all the ambulance company's in Western New York, who remembers Town`s ambulance, Niagara ambulance, Frontier ambulance, Lasalle ambulance?
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Post by keeffer on Feb 19, 2007 14:40:24 GMT -5
i know where a Lasalle ambulance is located
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Post by 65cuda on Feb 19, 2007 16:54:00 GMT -5
is it a Lasalle or is it a Lasalle type vehicle?
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Post by oldschoolcruiser on Feb 19, 2007 21:23:22 GMT -5
Whether GM buys Chrysler, or Chrysler buys GM, the first thing that came to my mind was what if some Chrysler cars wind up with crappy GM motors made with plastic parts?
I know a few people who had GM cars with plastic intake manifolds that warped and sent coolant into the oil screwing up the whole works! I hope they re-think that idea someone had about using plastic cylinder heads. That sounds impractical to me....wouldn't they just melt?
My Caravan has 165,000 miles on the original motor (3.3L) and doesn't make any wierd noises and doesn't use any oil.......I don't think GM can say that about anything they've been making lately.
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Post by 65cuda on Feb 19, 2007 22:02:06 GMT -5
my Jeep has 160,000 miles uses vary little oil, runs great, was going to get rid of it because its a little to small to tow my camper, but I just can`t get rid of old faithful
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Post by swi66 on Feb 20, 2007 6:46:51 GMT -5
My 92 Dakota 4x4 is approaching 160,000 miles.
For a MOPAR that's just broken in................
318, runs great, for an extended cab 4x4 to get 16 MPG is still good.
I think the LaSalle Ambulance he was referring to was a LaSalle as in a division of GM just below Cadillac. Went out in the 40's didn't they?
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Post by 65cuda on Feb 21, 2007 6:53:55 GMT -5
La Salle was the car that was built in the 30s up to 1940, compared to and similar to the Cadillac, The ambulance company LaSalle got it name from the old La Salle type ambulance`s
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Post by oldschoolcruiser on Feb 21, 2007 9:25:58 GMT -5
Remember the tv show All in the Family? The words to the song at the beginning of the show contain the phrase "gee our old La Salle ran great"......
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Post by benny on Feb 21, 2007 15:28:50 GMT -5
Many of the real "old timers" felt the Lasalle was a better car than a Caddy
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