{"id":199702,"date":"2007-07-04T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/04\/these-are-called-death-throws\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T21:10:00","slug":"these-are-called-death-throws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/04\/these-are-called-death-throws\/","title":{"rendered":"These are Called &#8220;Death Throws&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, all that the private equity firm was interested in was the dealer network.  Chrysler will not be manufacturing cars in 5-10 years.  It will simply be rebadging them.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/07\/03\/news\/international\/chrysler_chery\/index.htm?postversion=2007070308\">Chrysler reportedly near import deal with Chinese automaker<\/a><\/span><br \/>greement to import Chinese subcompacts reportedly close to final approval; news comes as concerns linger over the safety of Chinese-made goods.<br \/>July 3 2007: 8:21 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Chrysler Group is set to give final approval to a deal that would have a Chinese automaker build small cars for it to sell in the United States and Western Europe, according to a newspaper report Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal between Chrysler and China&#8217;s Chery Motor Co., which comes in the wake of growing concern among U.S. consumers over the safety of Chinese-made goods, was in question after DaimlerChrysler agreed to sell a majority stake in Chrysler to private-equity firm Cerberus Management.<\/p>\n<p>But the Detroit News reports that Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda is in China finalizing the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The paper said the deal will be announced in Beijing on Wednesday, which, given the difference in times zones, is just before the Independence Day holiday here.<\/p>\n<p>Chrysler had first confirmed that it was holding talks with Chery on the Friday before the New Year&#8217;s holiday here, another time that minimized news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, all that the private equity firm was interested in was the dealer network. Chrysler will not be manufacturing cars in 5-10 years. It will simply be rebadging them. Chrysler reportedly near import deal with Chinese automakergreement to import Chinese subcompacts reportedly close to final approval; news comes as concerns linger over the safety of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,1005,1016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-business","category-international-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}