Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Fiat To The Rescue?


Just how desperate is the American auto industry? Fiat may be taking over Chrysler.



5 comments:

  1. Does anyone else remember that place on N. Saginaw St. (a car dealership?) that had a Fiat up on a pole? It was almost all the way up to Beecher.

    My mother used to have a little yellow Fiat, when I was a little kid, so we used to smile whenever we saw the one on the pole.

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  2. That little car is awesome, but there's no way those two giants next to it would ever fit inside.

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  3. Fiat stands for Fix It Again, Tony.

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  4. James, come on. My sister had a Fiat Spider that performed admirably. Although she also owned a Pinto once, so the bar may have been set real low.

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  5. Fiat will face some brand challenges, but if we hit $4-5/gallon gas, many americans will be interested in products like the Fiat 500 Google it), etc. At $1.60/gallon it looks like bad biz, but this might look like sheer genius in about 2-3 yrs..

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