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NefCanuck,Mar 12 2009, 09:52 AM Wrote:Given the "new reality" of the situation, I would think that Chrysler if they gave a tinker's damn about Canada (Though frankly seeing how Canadian customers / dealers get shafted compared to the US, I doubt it) they would have kept this on the QT and worked with the feds in the backrooms to clear up this issue.

Grandstanding like this only serves to anger the public, create further negative connotations for a brand that frankly doesn't need them.

If Chrysler abandons Canada, they're only shooting themselves in the foot (again)

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Kinda what I was thinking (right after my first thought which was that they must have fired every last PR person they had) ... talk about a PR nightmare - whoever was advising on their comms strategy should be shot.

My first gut reaction when I saw the Lasorda clips on TV was good fawkin' riddance - an emotional response to a piss-poor approach to asking for help.

Compare that childish performance to Mondragon's - "we're good - we saw it coming and acted a while back - let's work together and pull the industry through - the government can help by putting money in the jeans of the people driving old cars who should be ditching them" ... now that's a positive message.

The private investors who made the incredibly stupid decision to buy Chrysler when they did do not deserve any additional help at all - not from the union and not from the government. If they can't compete and survive with the same level of support being given GM, then I say there is no saving them no matter what anyone does - and we should all just save our money.

Ford is good, GM has a chance with help ... Chrysler in its current form is doomed IMO and will either go bankrupt or be sold off at bargain basement prices ... in any event, they will not survive IMO with the current ownership.