Italian car maker Fiat and the US government both claim to have gotten the better of the deal for Chrysler

摘要

Our founder, John C Hogg, once shared with a journalist his rule for analysing business transactions in high places: "Find out how they did their sums." It is pleasant to imagine Mr Hogg applying his method to the purchase, by Fiat SpA, of the US government's remaining six per cent stake in Chrysler Group. On the same set of undisputed financial data, each of the parties to the deal is convinced of having struck a terrific bargain.