December 18th, 2008 • by David Zatz
It doesn’t take much to set off the Chrysler-haters these days. The Wall Street Journal prints a rumor and before you know it, Autoblog has its comic balloons and “Chrysler sucks/is dead/should be dead” hat on. Chrysler shuts down its production plants for two extra weeks – not unlike Toyota – and we get a [...]
November 20th, 2008 • by David Zatz
Nobody asked me for my opinion, but then, I didn’t ask Mitt Romney, Michael Moore, Rush Limbaugh, or any other big-mouths for their opinions, either. Incidentally, the auto industry economists DID clearly see economic troubles coming, at least six months before it did. Ford and Chrysler acted. GM did not. So here are my conditions [...]