As all the domestic automakers are making a mad dash to develop “small but cool” cars, I wish someone heard me back in 2005, just so I could be able to say “I told you so”. The day was when General Motors announced that it would not buy the Fiat Group and instead would pay them to go away. That was a day I knew a mistake was made. For those of you who don't remember, GM had a firm hold on Fiat. In fact, Fiat had negotiated a put option that could make GM buy the whole company if Fiat said so. (...)

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