Chrysler to close manufacturing plants for a month starting Friday

people can't find financing because they shouldn't be buying financed vehicles anyways.

And stop spending on marketing if you know everyone is strapped for cash and not spending.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onwards. - Helen Keller

A man is not finished when he's defeated, he's finished when he quits. - Richard Nixon

Figure what went wrong, fix it and try again.

This is a decent test run. I bet some employees might already be looking for new jobs. I hope they get paid vacation or good severance, at least.

My main question is how long should the tax payer pay for these companies to survive? With the US auto industry, their problems are decades old, and they haven't resolved them yet.

Good maybe they will come back with better cars off their lines..

[Sorry if you work in their plants tho!]

What the hell... that's my photograph being used as the header. I came over here to check out an archived story from a few months back, and the thumbnail on the front page drew my attention immediately; the original series: http://www.notbland.com/images/chrysler/300c.htm

Don't know if it was the most suitable photo to use for this story, but whatever works.

I hope this means some serious reflection at their business model and come up with plans to become viable like Toyota and Honda and Lean Green gas powered machines...

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We'll see what affects it'll have come a month from now.

I wonder if they'll lose my bill in all of the chaos? Smart Fortwo here I come!

maybe they can take this time to figure out how to
build something that is not a piece of crap...

They have been hand in hand with oil companies and their glory days are over. Good things always come to an end. It looks like Bush will make one of the biggest mistakes of his presidancy, he is going to bail them out hell or high water. Could the two be connected?

Please, oh please let this be the beginning of 4-day work weeks ...

This is just the beginning of the culling of the herd.

Ride on!

who picked out the most outrageously pimped out chrysler 300 to include as the pic for this story? it still don't look like a phantom.

the only reason we need chrysler is for the jobs it creates.

it's certainly not for their cars with shitty engineering, shitty build quality, shitty looks, shitty faux-luxury, and shitty gas mileage.

i can think of four major automakers that make similar models, with better overall quality, durability, customer confidence, and operating budgets. one of which now seems to be the number 3 automaker worldwide.

why can't people realize that america will create the jobs it needs. it just needs the puppet strings to be released so new, upstart american automakers can dominate the market with green or near-green vehicles.

no to the bailout! no to rewarding poor business practices.

Worse things have happened.

They're not doing this to align supply and demand... but to give the government a taste of what would happen if they close their doors.

An ingenious scheme to show Uncle Sam how much the country needs them.

i bet they close it down longer than that when the opec production cut stings their gas guzzling car sales.

Hmmm... I think that's better than closing it down completely ?