Re: And NOW, the Big 3 are doing what Packard couldn't do...

Posted by Packard53 On 2009/4/2 17:48:08

Gerardo: The fact still remains that even with the current trouble that GM is in they still are the second biggest car manufacture in the world.

It seems that in the USA people got tired of the lousy cars that Fiat built and sold in this country. Very few second time buyers because of the poor build quality, mechanical troubles, and most of all the poor bodies of Fiats that would have severe rust problems in only a couple of years.

GM a couple of years ago paid Fiat $3 billion US dollars to get out of any kind of possible partnership with Fiat. Now that really has to say something about Fiat. GM was in bad shape then but was still willing to pay to get out of partnership with Fiat.

Fiat withdrew from the US market for all purposes around 1982. They finally threw in the towel in 1990 because people in the US market weren't willing to buy rebadged X1/9's sold as Bertones from 1984 through 1990.


John F. Shireman