Quote :

"DETROIT (Reuters) - Citing a credit crisis and dwindling sales, Chrysler LLC on Wednesday said it would shut down all of its manufacturing operations from the end of this week for at least a month."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Chrysler-says-to-shut-down-rb-13862270.html

12/17/2008 9:06:25 PM

man this sucks

i couldnt care less about most of chrysler nowadays(coming from a MOPAR fan!)

I do hope that someone saves the jeep line and the 3/4 ton and up rams when the rest of chrysler goes under (gotta have my cummins)

12/18/2008 8:47:52 AM

challenger oughta hang around too

12/18/2008 8:48:13 AM

while unfortunate, they typically shut down for 2 weeks or so around this time every year. still sucks though.

12/18/2008 9:17:03 AM

GM just slashed a shit ton of orders this morning.. like, 9 weeks worth.

not sure what's been announced though

12/18/2008 9:17:07 AM

BICYCLES FOR ALL!

12/18/2008 3:09:04 PM

this is the first smart move they have made...no sense in pumping out vehicles when no one is buying them. just go to a car lot and see how much inventory is sitting there costing them money right now.

12/18/2008 3:21:52 PM

this is the first intelligent thing that they have done

12/18/2008 3:32:03 PM

no, the first intelligent thing to do was not make cars in the first place

12/18/2008 3:48:07 PM

wll be a good MOPAR holiday vacation

12/18/2008 11:06:14 PM

y not merely slow production by increasing quality control?

[Edited on December 20, 2008 at 2:49 AM. Reason : guess it doens't matter since no1 buying cars reuardless of quality]

12/20/2008 2:47:36 AM

it'll save them in power bills and etc but the news said they still have to pay their workers like 95% of their pay anyways so it'll save squat on payroll bills.

12/20/2008 10:14:45 AM

we'll see if Ford or GM ends up merging with them. I imagine they would kill everything but the viper, Caravan/Town and Country minivan, Ram pickups, Charger/Challenger/300, and Wrangler/Cherokee style line

12/20/2008 1:09:10 PM

the minivans, challenger and jeep are the only things worth salvaging. I loved the magnum but they've already killed it.

12/20/2008 3:53:04 PM

Quote :

"like 95% of their pay anyways so it'll save squat on payroll bills."

90% i believe is standard pay when the lines are "idling"

complete bullshit

12/20/2008 4:18:53 PM

oh ok, maybe it was 95% when the auto workers are fired... something about a "job bank"

12/20/2008 5:53:48 PM