[BrickTamland]

I see a merger as a giant clusterfudge of internal fighting on what gets canned and what gets killed. Of course, GM will hold the upper hand in what gets saved and what does not. They have the stronger lineup. The internal fighting will inevitably result in some massive mess of where the design dollars go. There will be internal competition - there is no way one of the fullsize pickups will be cancelled - but the fighting over what compact to make, for example, will be ugly. GM will make a better one, but Chrysler will be fighting to keep an identity. Chrysler will not just want to sell GM its name and the Ram, LX's, and minivans. That's a piddling amount of product to have survive compared to all the vehicles they do make.