What were they thinking?
All year long, Chrysler built thousands of cars without dealer orders and stored them on open lots around Detroit until it could move them. By July, the total number of unsold cars in inventory reached 647,000. After contending for months that it was working off the surplus, Chrysler finally conceded in October that it had an inventory problem and announced a $1.5 billion third-quarter loss.
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