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Originally Posted by SilverEagle
If Chrysler wants to stay in business ,They need to stop making all those gas hogs that there making. Get rid of the Aspen,the Durango, for starters. If they have to make them do at the Dodge plant. Close the PT plant in Mexico and bring them to the Newark Delaware plant that makes the Durango and the Aspen.
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Yup, doing all that should only take, oh, only a week or so....
Now, realistically, what they *are* in the middle of doing is converting all their plants to flex manufacturing, which will enable them to build a wide variety of vehicles at different plants, as long as certain 'hard point' dimensions are shared. The Belividere plant which produces the Caliber, Compass, and coming-soon Patriot is a flex plant. Ditto the Grand Cherokee/Commander. The beauty is that the total sales mark needed to reach profitability is shared among all the vehicles - so if they need 100k in sales any combo of Compass/Caliber/Patriot sales that hits 100k means the whole shebang is profitable. Adding more vehicles to the mix doesn't appreciably increase the numbers of sales needed to be profitable.
That last sentence is important.
That one means that they'll be more likely to take a chance on something like a retro themed PT even if they don't think that particular model will fly off the showroom, because more mainstream models will take up the slack.
This is more of a long term project though, and may or may not impact the next PT, depending on what they do with it.
However, if it works, they'll be in great shape and extremely flexible with regards to the way they build and equip - and design - vehicles. If it doesn't, well, the media won't have Chrysler to kick around any more....