Chrysler's plan considers three scenarios. A bankruptcy study was required, and chairman Bob Nardelli says the $20- to $25-billion debtor-in-possession Chapter 11 would require an entity no smaller than the federal government to step forward, otherwise it's liquidation. "This is not a course of-action we're recommending,"Nardelli says. Nardelli says Chrysler could remain a stand-alone company if it receives an additional $5 billion in loan guarantees, in addition to the $4 billion it got at the beginning of the year. Its best-case scenario is the pending alliance with Fiat, which was contingent on federal money. Fiat would own 35 percent of Chrysler with no money down, propelling the alliance to the sixth-largest automaker in the world, just behind Ford Motor Company.
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