Chrysler was just about declared dead and ready for the morgue by the financial doctors in Bankruptcy Hospital's Operating Room on two different occasions in recent decades. Miraculously, it was brought back to life an unprecedented two times on the almighty US-Taxpayer-Funded Heart & Lung Machine.
Some time after the first Resurrection, the Germans thought they could take over the propped-up corpse and shove it onto the racetrack using their vaunted German efficiency and engineering talents. Unfortunately, after putting Billion$ in it and circulating their famous Teutonic Tonic through its veins, they seem to have dropped the whole idea as being hopeless as another Stalingrad. Who needed that?
So, back to Bankruptcy Hospital's Operating Room for another try at the Taxpayer Fix. This time, with our modern-day Lazarus fresh off the table, the Hopeful Italians' newly minted Fiat-Christler outfit has been given this marvelous piece of work to see if they can keep it alive and moving towards the Promised Land of Fiscal Success.
Stay tuned.