The old joke about the DCX merger was how do you pronounce Daimler-Chrysler. "Daimler, the Chrysler is silent". Well now the shoe is clearly on the other foot as Chrysler continues to carry it wounded brother down the assembly line.
This just in from from Auto Insider: (
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll...602160380/1148)
"For the first nine months of the year,
Chrysler contributed $1.3 billion in operating
profit, while the commercial vehicles division -- the world's largest manufacturer of trucks -- weighed in with $2.1 billion.
For the first three quarters,
Mercedes reported a
loss of $610 million, reflecting big charges, in part to restructure its persistently unprofitable (notsosmart) Smart minicar business."
Oh well, we still do appreciate the IRS and other goodies they made available for the 300C. Now if they just hand over last year's S600 platform for the new Imperial - hey! A V-12 would fit in that, right?