Comments on: Sad that it has come to this.

By: Curtis Redgap

Curtis Redgap — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:56:20 +0000

Again, agreed that the 1.7 VW engine was temporary from the git go…… however, it is a different time and a different company. With its eyes on the coveted “world” car company. Nothing will ever be built that will contain single sources ever again. After all that was the rhyme and the reason for the take….. ooops excuse me, the “merger of equals” in the first instance. Thereby hailing Daimler as the “grace and savior” of poor lowly Chrysler. Bah! Just in the same way, this now is permanent and doesn’t bode well for single source pride in quality.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:11:58 +0000

Though that 1.7 was indeed VW sourced it was _a temporary measure_ and not a permanent policy.

By: Curtis Redgap

Curtis Redgap — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:51:07 +0000

Yes and the original 1.7 litre engine was sourced from VW for the Omni/Horizon twins. Again, I make reference to the homage paid to Daimler when it took over Chrysler as being the savior. Now the subsequent action is to take bits and pieces from everywhere to assemble here and there or anywhere and call it a brand from here. That goes to just having a job and not much else. If you do see something wrong, it would take a freight train like effort to get it stopped, having to go way back to the source to make changes.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:25:25 +0000

In the Omni/Horizon, the engine was outsourced as a temporary measure only while the 2.2 was developed and brought up to production quantities. There’s a big difference! … not to mention that most other Chrylser vehicles were, well, Chrysler vehicles. Even then the rot had set in, but I had hoped we had moved beyond that. The pride was back for a while in the 1990s. Then the appearance of pride came back…with Global Motors.