[Spridgets] Le Macchine d'Italia (No LBC)

[Jay Fishbein]

It wasn't that long ago that some Chryslers had a zipper on the transmission they were being replaced so often.

As a friend of mine in charge of a fleet of Chryslers at his company remarked: "Aren't you supposed to change transmissions every 20,000 miles?"

Unless someone could offer some actual hard information, everything negative about Fiat that has mentioned here has been anecdotal. 

Like many brands from years past that suffered in the US market, Fiat never had a solid dealer network or at the very least a support network of mechanics with experience, both inside and outside of the dealers.

As much as I like cars, I think our economy has been overly dependent on them. And our current economy is painfully making that point evident. People generally purchase new cars out of desire, rather than need and right now, there are few buyers because people just don't NEED new cars.

What I find ironic is that the people that supported the American car manufacturers with their purchases of Hummers, MiniVans, Chevy Suburbans, Cadillac and Lincoln trucks, and so-on, (without a genuine need for those large vehicles) are now nowhere to be found.

jay fishbein
wallingford, ct



--- On Tue, 5/5/09, Andrew Payne <andrewpayne at intrex.net> wrote:
From: Andrew Payne <andrewpayne at intrex.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Le Macchine d'Italia (No LBC)
To: "'mike rambour'" <mikey at b2systems.com>, "'Jim Johnson'" <bmwwxman at gmail.com>
Cc: "'Spridgets'" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 3:15 PM

I was actually thinking that with Fiat involved, I might have a reason to
buy a Chrysler;)