Chrysler - did Cerberus blow it?

Thanks for that. Always good to have a moron expose himself to everyone on Usenet once in awhile.

If anyone cares to think about it, the troubles in this country grow from Wall Street -

when corporations which had been happily moving along for years making money and reinvesting it back into new products, research and so on - all of a sudden had to learn to concern themselves about stock prices, how to TRY to keep from being the victims of a hostile take over and having years of profits burned up to light some billionire's cigar, and most importantly how to keep the market happy and support all the Wall St. silk suited parasites that have sucked the blood out of and destroyed so many fine American companies, to line their own greedy pockets.

WHO CARES about how many Americans we put out of work, let's squeeze out another Gulfstream Bizjet, Custom yacht, Million dollar one bedroom apartment or $500k sports car for us....

If the people that originally started the NYSE could see it today, they would most probably be first ashamed at the way it has been corrupted over the years, and then probably burn it down...

I do hope I don;t appear too harsh =)

Bill

Yes in the past Mercedes cars were a bit ugly, but you obviously haven't looked at the recent Mercedes E series of cars. IMO they are lovely looking. Mercedes passed on the ugly looks to the Chrysler 300.

Geez, what an objective statement. You might inform yourself that many people consider a number of MB models gorgeous -- especially the S, CL, SL, and CLS. OTOH, the Compass, Caliber, Charger... need I go on?

Gee, a bigot heard from.

And a dumb one at that.

Wouldn't expect you to know anything.

So, burn any crosses lately?

There speaks a real connoisseur...

BTW, for us Europeans, what's a "rag head"?

DAS

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Lloyd Parker leases a Mercedes because he is "fiscally conservative".

Right Lloyd ?

Dave Milne, Scotland

Have you *ever* been in a Mercedes ?? Overpriced and expensive perhaps, but you can't fault the ride. Certainly not if you come from the US which has a history of deriving its ride quality from the marine industry and has been slow to give up cart springs. Wait, that would be logging waggon springs.

Dave Milne, Scotland.

You appear stupid, since you obviously aren't aware what has been going on. While the Big 3 have shown token interest in reasonably sized cars the "import" manufacturers have been building what consumers want at very good quality.

Nothing to do with the NYSE or the UAW, just very poor management by the Big 3.

You are very out of date when is comes to NA cars. I rent a UK (sold, none made there anymore) car every year or so, thus I know what I'm talking about.

I don't think the OP is necessarily "stupid"...he's right about greed in US business, but you're right about Big 3 management...THEY'RE the culprits, and have all the money in the world to deflect blame onto the floor workers through Rockefeller-like "PR" campaigns and sniveling to their press puppet, the WSJ...one of the least credible news organs on the planet.

If you read my post carefully, you will note I said "was slow to give up" not "hasn't given up". Although you rent a UK car every year or so, I bet you don't drive nearly as many of them as I do...

Dave Milne, Scotland

Is the low-sulfur diesel available all over the US yet?

DAS

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On the whole Mercs have been and are classy and timeless.

That's why a 20-yr-old Merc can still pass muster today.

DAS

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Timeless is a nice way to put it. They certainly aren't out of style. 20 year old Mercs don't have any character lines on them anywhere, or any kind of styling features. They weren't really styled at all, just basically a block of soap.

I admit new ones are quite a bit more styled. I was just saying they didn't actually use styling for a long time, say 1960 to 2000. I'm not saying I didn't like the styling - I'm saying there wasn't any. If you don't put lines on something, it's just flat.

We have it in OR also. What the ironic thing is, is that this mandate is one of the reasons fuel prices went up - it's more costly to refine heavy crude to get rid of the sulfur - yet the diesel prices here are lower than gasoline.

Ted

I don't know what the knew mandate actually costs but in general diesel is far cheaper to refine than gasoline.