Sergio: Do the math - FCA chief wants tie-up with GM; GM's response: Why bail out FCA?

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DETROET - General Motors has flatly rejected the advances of its crosstown rival, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, but FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne is not going away - not by a long shot. Marchionne says he has sweated the details and done the math and discovered there's far too much upside in a merger of FCA and GM to let a deal go undone, or at least unexplored. In a blunt, two-hour interview in his downtown Detroit office, Marchionne said the numbers come out so good that his board of directors has no choice but to put pressure on GM to begin discussions now. "It would be unconscionable not to force a partner," he said.