Despite the fact that I will be buying one of their products I find it difficult to defend chrysler. And as much as I love the challenger it probably wasn't the best idea to put it into production. I hope they prove me wrong about that though.

I'll put some of the blame on the internet-age, we demand immediate information about everything now. It used to be, the car shows up in showrooms with a brochure and appears in commercials and people rush out to buy it. Now we sit around oogling over every minute detail for the 3 year production cycle.

That said, chrysler has to adapt. Their handling of this pre-order situation with the challenger has been pathetic, apparently their customer service has been outsourced to india, and their vehicle lineup is mostly a joke. It will be interesting to see if the company can turn around under cerberus. I hope they can produce quality american cars in the future, as opposed to chinese and japanese cars with american bodywork.....Chery demon? Nissan Hornet? That is fine during this transition to more fuel efficient vehicles but hopefully that's just to get them onto the right track so they can start doing it themselves.