Car czars
Published 10:54 pm Friday, April 17, 2009
If Chrysler is still around next month, it’ll be run by a board of directors consisting, in part, of people appointed by the federal government.
Beltway big shots love the title “czar,” so why not put a whole bunch of them in charge at Chrysler? There could be a Czar of Midlife Crisis Cars (the Viper and the Challenger), a Czar of Cars That Make No Sense (the Dodge Nitro), a Czar of Cars Aimed at the Pimp Market (the Chrysler 300) and a Czar of Cars in Which the Average American Can Barely Squeeze Into (the entire Fiat lineup).
Since everything ever overseen by a “czar” has failed — we’re looking at you, War on Drugs — the omens are not good for Chrysler.
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Two thousand years from now, archaeologists will launch a similar search for the graves of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
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