Originally Posted by Jim B.

Reminds me of Studebaker buying Packard, back in '57, and by the end of 1958, no more Packards, the last of that iconic carmaker's OWN styling having been made back in 1956.

The 1956 models were the LAST true Packards.

The 1957 and 1958 Packards were just ugly Studebakers but with fins and hooded dual headlights


Chrysler has hooked up with losers before; In 1988 they bought the struggling AMC company (which by then had already sold its profitable Redisco finance and Nash Kelvinator appliance divisions, in last ditch appempts to try and stay afloat) so they could get the AMC Jeep brand.

They then immediately killed the 4wd Eagle, which wasn't a bad one (my dad had bought a 1986 one, for the snow up here) though struggling AMC based it on the 1970 Hornet Sportabout, so it was an 18 year old design when Chrysler killed it.