hawk20 said:In posting number 13 of this thread you said:- "Whichever way you choose to look at it, Chrysler is the owner of the Mercedes Brand."
I am not sure if you have read the links you give but here is a direct quote from the second one:-
"In 1998, Chrysler merged with Daimler-Benz to become DaimlerChrysler. The merger was said as "equal merge", but in 2000 most American top executives were sacked and replaced with German. By then it was clear that the merger was actually a takeover by Mercedes."
I choose to assume you have disregarded the rest of any of the links, that fact that DC Insider confirms what I say, and the fact that on my car, which is a mercedes benz and is built in germany by DailmerChryler AG, that Daimler Chrysler owns the brand Mercedes and it is not the other way around!
Popular wording as you have choosen to highlight may well be how Joe Public knows it, but as a Mercedes Enthusiast, the history and facts are out there.
your original post in this thread made clear you were thinking people will down market mercedes in to thinking they are chryslers. Nothing you have put up suggest that is the case and the fact remains that Daimler Chrysler owns Mercedes.
Mercedes is the brand name and nothing will change that including dressing up mercedes in chrysler dresses.
And quite clearly Mercedes are in fact owned by Chrysler. Daimler chrysler to be pendantic. the company formally known as Daimler Benz, which owned the brand Mercedes in the first place.