Chrysler brings back the Dodge Dart

abodyjoe said

diameler is the one that drove chrysler into the ground.. Iacocca brought chrylser back with the K-car and mini van. then what was supposed to be a merger not a take over like it turned into happened. all down hill from there...

bottom line is chrysler was a foreign car while with diameler and is a foreign car once again with fiat. a toyota or honda is just as american ad a chrysler product these days. hell a camry is designed and built here. the new dart is just a stretched fiat.

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Chrysler was already in trouble when they allowed Diamler to partner up with them. If Chrysler wasn't so horribly mismanaged, then they wouldn't have had to put themselves out to Diamler. Same thing when Diamler sold out to the managing partners prior to Fiat. Why is it that American's can't run Chrysler, but a foreign managing partner can? Bottom line is, Fiat putting Chrysler in the right direction to survive rather than the American owned management allowing Chrysler to die out. I don't know, running Chrysler into the ground doesn't sound very American to me.

The new Dart is a stretched Fiat. Nobody is doubting that. However, it's consistent with what the original Dart was...compact, cheap and good on gas. That's what the Dart name was about between 64-76. I still don't see what the big deal is.