Looking at it counter intuitively, this is a great opportunity for canny buyers.
Near the end of the Chrysler / Mercedes merger they introduced the Chrysler Crossfire, a 2 seat sports car with Chrysler design, MB V6 mechanicals, built by Karmann and sale bombed because Chrysler buyers weren’t interested in a $30,000 Chrysler sports car. I picked up mine for less than the cost of a base Toyota Corolla.
Near the end of the Ford / Jaguar merger Ford had replaced the “problematic” Jaguar V8 with a much better Ford design but the image remained so today you can still pick a luxury car from that era at a bargain price.
Based on past experience I expect that any Chrysler/Jaguar/Land Rover will yield the same result.
Jaguar Luxury Minivans? Land Rover “Sports” SUVs, maybe a 2 seater? And maybe another Chrysler Sports / Luxury car?
Well need to see what the Copperhead really is first. Not a Viper but a helical powered halo car for Dodge.
What I mean is corporate alliances, where the name of the company is changed or added to (Daimler-Chrysler)
That merger was pronounced “Daimler”… The Chrysler was silent! 
Not a merger, it was a take-over! And it was engineered by Bob Eaton, the former head of GM Europe recruited by Chrysler. Maybe Bob thought he was flipping the bird to GM for not naming him president. Turns out, he flipped the bird to Chrysler!
Chrysler did well with the sloppy seconds handed down from the Mercedes E-class. All the big RWD cars were based on the 90s E-class Merc platform.
But the corporate cultures of the two businesses were so far apart, that gap could never be closed so Daimler dumped them.
Ford sold its LOSING assets to avoid a government bailout. If Jag was profitable they never would have sold it.
I’m sure that Ford started the wheels turning long before December 2006, and the line of credit was finalized just before the defaults in early 2007. Your timeline agrees with my assessment.
The problem with the “housing bubble”. People would refinance, take money out, then make questionable purchases such as expensive cars. Me, I refinanced to a lower rate, shorter time, and still lowered my payments. One woman I worked with decided to “downsize”. What they forgot in Florida property taxes are based on the appraisal at time of purchase. So they went from paying property taxe on a $75K house to paying taxes on a smaller (square foot) $250K house.
Word from inside was that Daimler executives foresaw the collapse of the American economy and decided it was time to self-off the Chrysler division.
… and then blame the mortgage companies. I researched the property records of my former co-workers; half of them experienced a foreclosure during 2008-2010, each of them had reckless spending habits. New diesel trucks and a Grand Cherokee for their wives.
A common excuse for defaulting on a mortgage was the decline in property values, they felt it was not worth repaying the loan.
I spent a lot of time in LA for work during the 2000s. One of our on sight inspectors said he was thinking about buying a home with an interest only payment. That would allow him to buy a substantially more expensive home. I told him it was dangerous financially and he should stick to simple mortgages.
They sold off Chrysler in 2007 at the beginning of the worldwide recession that hit Germany 150% harder than the US.
So it wasn’t a collapse of just our economy that may have triggered the sale.
Additionally Chrysler did not post a profit until just after Daimler sold it to Cerberus… and not since either!
That was NOT thee problem with the housing bubble. The housing bubble was caused mainly by bundling mortgages into tranches. This led to banks seeing huge profits even with lower then AAA rated mortgages. Banks and mortgage lenders would write mortgages without any verification. Prior to the bundling mortgage companies would NEVER EVER do this because that type of a loan would be extremely bad risk and could never sell it. But with bundling the ■■■■ loans in with good loans and selling the Mortgage Backed Securities - they could (and did). And anyone and everyone was now applying for a mortgage. The mortgage companies became predators - they’d sell loans to people with these variable loan rates that after 5 years - the monthly payments were more than their income. And the mortgage companies knew this.