Lexus bought by MB

Mercedes will purchase all of Lexus in a huge tax and currency play that will instantly make the Germens hundreds of millions.

Since MB doesn't need any more luxury cars in its stable, all future Lexus RS models will be re-badged as Imperial (remember those sparrow strainer tail lights?) and marketed via Chrysler dealers. The company says this is the first time since the early 60s that Chrysler will offer a true luxo ride, and plans to resurect the old Imperial brand name.

The RX330 will be dumbed down and cheapened to suite the mentality of Grand Cheroke buyers. MB feels that since the Cheroke design is nearly 50 years old, it's time to move on, that even loyal Jeep fans will soon catch on to the dated design and horrible reliability of the Grand Cheroke. Looks like a plan to keep Jeep owners from migrating to GM/Ford SUV junk.

Same with the ES330 to replace the Dodge Intrepid. An MB spokes person noted that in order to better match the quality expectations of current Dodge buyers, that this car will be produced in a plant in the Dominican Republic.... a retrofitted sugar mill that was wiped out by a recent hurricane. Chrysler says it is a "real sweet deal" for everyone.

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TANKIE
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Hilarious!

Reply to
RR

What will they do with the E and S class cars? And how soon will they do that?

Reply to
MCBRUE

You know, if you're going to do this sort of thing, you get a much better effect if you try to use press-release speak language instead of what you did.

Reply to
GRL

Will MB use cash to buy the company or will it use stock? Will ole Jerkin Shrimp, the current MB leader, become the leader of the entire new organization?

Reply to
MCBRUE

You do realize that your leg is being pulled, right??

Reply to
Jerohm

He should. Because if a buyout of this nature were to ever take place, it would be Toyota-Lexus purchasing the entire Daimler-Chrysler corporation and killing off the Mercedes-Benz line in its entirety. :-)

Reply to
J. Perry

This is Turtle.

Tankie ----- Reuters News , Smart Money News Service, and Edward Jones Auto News all don't know anything about this deal in the making. I didn't check out

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for they may have it. Now they report things that a regular type fellow would not want to hear. Now the only thing that Toyota and Chrysler have in the line of deals is a software deal to combine their research teams into coming up with a better problem reporting system to have on the computors of the cars which will report a problem when brought into the dealerships for having a problem. They did not speak of any merger of any kind.

Are you sure you got this from a News service and not from a friend who sells Dodge salesman.

TURTLE

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TURTLE

This is all on the level.

In true MoPar tradition, they will ditch the dohc Lexus V8 and replace it with the HEMI. Obvious reasons are that the HEMI is cheaper to produce, more powerful, and MoPar buyers don't give a rats ass about gass milage, reliability or smoothness and sophistication. These traits basiclydefine tha domestic buyer mentality.

PS... this waas all in a virtual google search a while back

Reply to
TANKIE

Nope! Nobody would lie about such a serious topic! It must be true because I saw it here in the Lexus newsgroup. So do you think they will keep the L or the Tri Star for the new cars?

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MCBRUE

"TANKIE" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m22.aol.com...

(deleted a completely stupid story)

Boys, DC is sellíng Mitsubishi. They more and more recognise, that is was a complete nonsense to buy Chrysler and then they will buy a re-badged Toyota? A brand only successfull in the states? Sure, Lexus is available in germany, but they sell some 2000 cars a year....... And for 2000 cars per year (btw. they sell 6000 c-class per month) they shall add a company with mediaville design and old tecnology in their portfolio?

No boys, forget this story. It`s a fiction.

Jürgen

Reply to
Jürgen Schrader

MB sales are down in the US. Lexus sales are up. Mitsubishi - uh - does it have sales? So obviously MB has to buy something to make up its sales loss. And that something is Lexus from what everyone says. After all - Ole Jerkin Shrimp, the head of MB, has some great desire to have a strong retirement plan like the american auto execs. So why is this so hard to believe? Besides the quality issue alone makes it imperative that MB learn something about how to build a car that doesn't breakdown until after you get it out of the dealer's driveway.

Reply to
MCBRUE

Hmmm. Is it April 1 already??

Reply to
RDA

No - it is late October. And this purchase was reported as fact here in the NG and we all know nothing false is ever reported on the internet.

Reply to
MCBRUE

This is turtle.

Oh My God , You mean to tell me that someone would tell a lie on the internet. I got to go lay down for this is too much.

TURTLE

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TURTLE

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