Professor Elam

Harold Maas does a goog job of summing up the weekly news.  You might bookmark his site.

He reports that Nissan will make smaller cars for Chrysler and Chrysler will make big pickups for Nissan. Well neither does the other well, and frankly this is not a departure from the Chrysler model, Chrysler has always depended on others to do small stuff, remember their alliance with Mitsubishi?  And if never works, if you can buy a Nissan who wants the carbon copy. Chrylser has always been a big mot0or body on frame company. They do that well,why not partner with say, Internati0nal Trucks thatused to sell their own Scout Brand?  At least thowroom would be full of truck buyers. 

Chrysler had the very successful Dodge Dart Plymouth Valiant Slant Six model back in the 1960s, and they they gave it up. Indeed it was a ConsumerReports Best Buy.  The Dodge Neon in the 1990s showed promise, they gave that up too. Failure to have a long term Deming TQM focus will eventually put Chrysler out of business. I guess eventually is about two years from now.