Automakers restructuring

General Motors Corp., the world's largest automaker, is in discussions with DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler unit on an alliance to share the costs of designing and developing cars, people with knowledge of the talks said.

Smells like a merger! Three automakers will be two....

We don't believe in an engagement.

The automaker turmoil

The last to fall is Chrysler. Unexpetected? No. We do not understand the reason, guys like Iacocca or Alfred Sloan did not have actually, any inheritor, in the American auto industry.

DaimlerChrysler AG may sell or seek partners for its unprofitable Chrysler division, abandoning its vision of building a successful carmaker that sold luxury Mercedes-Benz sedans as well as Dodge pickup trucks.

For long time, the American auto industry lived in a kind of separated market, delighted with the dream idea of a one dollar a gallon of gasoline. Big cars wasting energy and lots of horsepower devastated the automakers.

What about now? The Asian guys will have even more power in the future, because actually, they are Japanese and Korean, but in the future they will be also Chinese and Indian.

We hope, next Administration will not have any protectionist idea!

Last of the Mohicans's strategy of GM and Ford

These are the titles today for the car industry about January, 2007 sales:

"Car sales shocker: Ford tumbles to No. 4
GM sales down 16.6%; Ford down 19%; DaimlerChrysler's up 3.2%"

Apparently there is no near recovery for Ford or GM. Simultaneously, Toyota rose to US's n.º 2 automaker. Even DaimlerChrysler is from mixed foreign origin (Germany). The Last of the Mohicans's strategy of american automakers of insisting on big cars, big power, big oil spenders, may, if the course isn't changed, lead to their death, alone and miserable.

Sorry, but maybe plain and words are necessary: "It's the ecology, stupids!".