ChryCo Co-Prez Press' Channel Stuffing Plea: "You Can Either Help Us or Burn Us All Down"
So it’s the dealers’ fault if Chrysler goes down in flames. Nothing to do with Daimler, who gutted the company like a fish. Or Cerberus, who wanted to gut the company like a fish, but found itself without a fish to gut. Or the company’s current management, who have lied, stonewalled, mislead, cut backroom deals with our elected representatives and generally manipulated honest, taxpaying Americans into supporting their stupid selfish schemes. As Chrysler’s backers, as their only means of survival, let’s think about this. ChryCo dealers are sitting on a 151-day supply of new vehicles (provided new car sales have stabilized). Even if Chrysler dealers didn’t order another car, truck or minivan, they’d have five months’ supply. There’s only one reason for them to take any more vehicles: to help justify the company’s desire to milk/bilk/fleece/con Uncle Sam for more “loans.” And still Cerberus point blank refuses to reveal to us, their supposed paymasters, who owns the company. No matter what you think of a ChryCo Chapter 7 or 11 or car dealers, this is an unseemly, disgusting clusterfuck. Look what they done to my Chrysler, ma.
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"Don’t worry, BDB. There truly IS a God. And guess what? He’s a “car guy” too." I'd like to believe that, but why didn't he instantly smite the designers of the Sebring (Old Testament style) then?
"Early ’80s Accord, anyone? Piece of junk." BDB, it was those early 80's Accords that helped boost Honda into the position it's in now. We had an 80 and an 82; both of them ran into the high 100,000's with their original engines and clutches, and were the reason why we have kept on buying Accords. It could be that I'm not the only one with a story like this.
Cereberus has no business owning a car company. My local dealer (who has been closed down by Cerberus owned-GMAC when they cut off his floorplanning credit lines) said that after they took over Chrysler, dealer relations deteriorated to the point he wish he didn't own a Chrysler dealer. They don't know what they are doing. Daimler bled Chrysler and then shit-canned it to a bunch of money-grubbing investment bankers who cannot manage their own financial affairs right, let alone a car company's. What is Cereberus going to do now that their cronies in the crooked Bush administration are gone?