Automotive Innovations - Chrysler History Found this in my Hagerty Magazine.

A few years ago when Chrysler was bankrupt and before Fiat bought them, a friend of mine who is a career engineer with Ford told me that Ford was seriously looking at making a play for them because they desperately wanted the Chrysler engineering. He told me it has always been the envy of the industry.

They just didn’t want the rest of the baggage that came with the deal.