China Picks Up Where We Left Off in Cars, Years Ago

GM's Buick division is doing extremely well… in China. The Chinese own Volvo. And may soon own Jeep — one of the few still-viable pieces of what used to be Chrysler. For now, it's FiatChrysler. Emphasis on for now. Fiat invested in what was just Chrysler, hoping to use the once-Big Three company as a kind of Mulberry Harbor — the floating piers used by the Allies during the Normandy invasion toward the end of WW II to establish a beachhead in Europe — only this time in America and cars rather than troops. But unlike the Normandy invasion, the