Chrysler no longer owned by US Gov.

Actually, this may not be a bad thing. Nissan needed Renault to bail them out. Look how Nissan has done since. They brought the Z car back and the Skyline GT to the U.S. Two cars that Nissan purists thought they would never see again.

I don't think DB actually cared when they were making the decisions. They just wanted tax breaks on their Mercedes imports. Fiat may actually care about the health of Chrysler. I would rather give Fiat a shot at it then to watch Chrysler go away altogether.