dpatt67 wrote:
1)FCA is only looking for a partner because it feels it would benefit the long term outlook of the company. These talks go on all the time between automakers, just look up all the partnerships going on right now.
2)The last company I would personally want to be partnered with after my 30 years of dependable Chrysler products is the joke that is GM. That's all I'm gonna say about that..
I don't think it would ever happen but with the way the automotive companies have been run into the ground the past decade who knows.
With respect to your point #1. There is a big difference between partnering for new technologies and a merger which Fiat was discussing. Chrysler has some structural problems for some time now and hopefully they can figure it out soon. Far too many mergers, buyouts, etc have left too many pieces internally that always do not mesh nicely.
