Although the mainstream automotive media establishment has discarded the rumors of the General acquiring the 'merican side of the German-American hybrid like dogs discarding a meatless bone, it appears one publication's not backing away from this here chew-toy. The folks at Keith Crain's source for all News that's Automotive are not only still pushing the story, they're even claiming today's NYT story on Big-UV platform sharing is just the tip of the iceberg. We're not entirely convinced they've got anything more than what we had earlier this week from manager-magazin.de, but hey — we'll keep our ears to the you know, whatever.
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DISCUSSION
GM and Chrysler? Bad match. Now, think about this....
Toyota is known for making bland, but bulletproof cars. Chrysler has always had great styling but awful quality.
A car, engineered by Toyota and styled by Chrysler would be a match made in heaven. Toyota is also solvent enough to buy Chrysler outright, which GM isn't even close to being able to do.
I hope I'm not the only one who sees this.