Quote Originally Posted by Whitehouse View Post
.......Take a look at Mercedes. Granted, this is a commercial but it really brings home the milestones that Mercedes set.......
Oh yeah, let's "take a look at Mercedes".

Detroiters had a nine-year look at the geniuses who ran Mercedes and we were not impressed. We saw first-hand what Daimler's supposed "merger of equals" did to the once-profitable Chrysler Corporation. Three years into the "merger", 26,000 Chrysler employees no longer had a job. Daimler paid $36 billion to acquire Chrysler in 1998 and in 2007 they had to pay Cerberus $650 million to take Chrysler and associated liabilities off their hands. That's a milestone you don't see very often!