[BigAls87Z28]

Holy Moly...

What could GM benifit? Well, they want to sell the Renn Center, so selling that and moving into Auburn Hills means a freebee HQ.
Jeep and the new Minivans are good. The new Ram is going to be rebadged as a Nissan, and Nissan and Chrysler has a lot of ties. GM can enjoy the cash flow from Nissan as well as VW that makes thier "German Engineerd" VW Town and Country err...Caravan..err...Routun or whatever the hell VW calls that rebadge job.
Nissan could buy the rest of the empty plants from GM/Chrysler to up thier American production.

Clearly Chrysler would make out like a bandit, now having access to the engineering of GM. They would no longer need to use Nissan to develop a compact platform. This could either be a joint-venture or a full merger, but if that was teh case, we are talking about massive MASSIVE cut backs in divisions, brands, and car lines.

IMO, this is a poor move for GM when they have very little money now, I dont understand why they would do this outside of it being more of a trade off for the rest of GMAC and this is the only way without burning up too much money.

It would mean a totaly different world car wise. Chrysler would be stripped of nothing. Not one single car they currently make is better then a GM product outside of the Ram and the Jeep brand as a whole which really has no major competition. With CAFE and GM's already overstocked brands, I dont see this as being any good at all.