chrysler officially a foreign car....

Fiat presently owns 58% of Chrysler, and will take control of the remaining interests this year. Chrysler, and Dodge, will "officially" become a brand of Fiat, and a Foreign Owned Company just like Honda, Toyota, BMW, VW, etc.

Ford and GM will remain the only two surviving Domestic Automobile Companies, and of the two, Ford is the only truly domestic car manufacturer, for now.

Where the car is actually built remains secondary. The money, the decisions, and the management of the corporation go offshore. It makes those working for that company here in the states, subordinate to those in foreign countries.

The people who Run Chrysler here in American will do so at the pleasure of the home office in Italy. Same goes for those working for Honda, Toyota. They work at the pleasure of the "owners" in Japan, Hyundai, Kia, work at the pleasure of the "owners" in SK. VW workers labor at the pleasure of the "owners" in Germany.

You can put any kind of spin on it that you wish, the bottom line is, American manufacturing is owned by European and Asians. We now work for them.


...on a side note, the reason we were able to win WWII, was basically due to out "industrial might". We had the natural resources, the man power, the facilities, and finances to out build any one else on the planet. That is no longer true.

I don't like the fact that Chrysler will be wholly owned by another country, and that dislike goes far beyond merely being a "MoPar fan".