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View Poll Results: What are the motives for the shutdown?
Way too much inventory sitting on dealer lots 9 36.00%
Attempt to scare Washington into giving the Big Three loans 3 12.00%
Combination of inventory and scaring Washington 8 32.00%
I don't care! 5 20.00%
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      12-17-2008, 06:02 PM   #1
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Chrysler Shuts Down All Plants for A Month

I don't have a link yet, just saw it on CNN. GM is also idling a lot of plants as well.

Part of me wonders if this is a strongarm tactic to get money from Washington.
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      12-17-2008, 06:12 PM   #2
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Companies almost always have shutdowns planned to perform various maintenance and other tasks that need to be completed while the machines are off. However, this is probably more of a were really running out of money sort of thing.
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      12-17-2008, 07:01 PM   #3
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2 for 1 deal....
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      12-17-2008, 08:01 PM   #4
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I found the link:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/auto...ion=2008121717
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      12-17-2008, 08:30 PM   #5
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Last week I picked up a new 535 in Munich and both BMW and Mercedes have shutdown their plants in Germany until mid January. It sucked as I wanted to take a plant tour as part of my ED adventure.
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      12-17-2008, 08:34 PM   #6
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well if they are not selling, what is the point of keep making cars.
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      12-17-2008, 09:19 PM   #7
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well if they are not selling, what is the point of keep making cars.
+1 Too many dealers, too many cars.

For years the consumer has seen and grown accustom to year end close outs because of over producing cars.
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