Chrysler's strength demonstrates that even a North American legacy auto company can achieve durable success by coming up with a continual stream of new or improved vehicles--the Jeep division has great new products on line and inthe pipeline--and by paying painstaking attention to costs.
Detroit has other appealing products inthepipeline: GM's Cadillac SRX and Chevrolet Equinox crossover vehicles, for instance, and Ford's Five Hundred and Futura sedans.
At last month's Frankfurt motor show almost every big carmaker could boast of new hybrids inthepipeline, some of them plug-ins, and prototype all-electric vehicles were all over the place.