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user-inactivated  ·  2430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Chinese carmaker Great Wall looks at bidding for Fiat Chrysler

Yeah. I don't know how to read these articles, cause I've seen multiple times "Chinese Company X Flirting With American Market But is Afraid of all the Competition" and I've also seen multiple times articles that say "Marchionne Wants To Sell This, Buy That, Split This, FCA, Ferrari, Maserati, Jeep, blah blah blah."

I do find it interesting that in the '80s, Chrylser bought AMC because it wanted the Jeep brand and people are speculating that foreign companies are now eyeing FCA for the same reason. I mean, Jeeps are okay, but I wouldn't consider the brand as worthy of buying a whole company.

Looking back, I'm kind of glad GM didn't buy FCA. That would have been scary big. Ditto if they ever flirted with selling to VAG (wouldn't that be crazy?).