When I heard about the potential merger between GM and Chrysler I was beside myself. I wanted to take my Challenger and burn it to the ground and send the nice folks at Cerberus the video to make them think twice about what they were doing.

Thankfully calmer heads, and a desire to keep the challenger, prevailed.

I read recently that the talks between the two have failed, here is an excert from a Reuters news report

“Merger talks between Chrysler and General Motors Corp were dropped earlier this month when GM said its near-term focus was on shoring up its own cash position.”

That’s a good thing. GM would have ripped up Chrysler, killed three quarters of it, and taken the good bits for themselves.

Could you picture a Hemi in a Corvette? Sure it might make the Corvette seem like a worthwhile car, but it would be sacrilege. Of course GM would have put the Cummins in their trucks. The Duramax is junk compared to the Cummins.

I bet Ford would love to get their hands on the Cummins to replace the PowerJoke, but lets not talk Ford/Chrysler. That would be worse.

So the talks have failed, and I’m a happy camper again. But is Chrysler? Apparently not.

Cerberus is apparenly demanding more than 7 billion dollars from Daimler over losses that have occured since the buyout. But wait, didn’t Cerberus just pay 7.4 billion for for 80.1% Chrysler? Yes they did.

Basically Cerberus is saying that Chrysler was damaged goods before they bought it and that Daimler knew it. Thus making the sale some kind of bad faith arrangement.

I doubt it will happen, but if it does then this means that Chrysler was essentially a free acquisition for Cerberus.

I could go on for hours about why Chrysler and the rest of the North American auto manufacturers are in serious trouble. But we won’t go there. Suffice it to say that Chrysler is not part of GM.

And for that, I’m happy.

It’s been a while since I updated the site, so today I upgraded to the latest and greatest version of IndexU.

There are many new features and functions and those will become apparent once I get the new theme done.

I’ll see you soon!

I haven’t been posting lately, and found this while cleaning up the hard drive. I hope you get a kick out of it.

I do have to apologize at the mess the Plymouth category was in. The general Plymouth listings were filled with absolute junk that was imported when the database was first created.

There were hundreds of listings that didn’t belong on the site in that category. I’m working on removing them right now.

Since I’m getting ready for a trip for this weekend I will wait until next week to go through the rest of the categories on the site to see if there is other junk that doesn’t belong.

Lets call it spring cleaning.

Oh ya, and if anyone has an trunk floors and extensions they feel like passing my way for an EBody, I wouldn’t say no