Auto manufacturers around the world frequently work together on various projects to help absorb expensive development costs, or to reduce the timescale for a project considerably. After all, the faster a vehicle gets to market, the quicker you can start selling it. American marque Chrysler has been a part of plenty of these arrangements over the years, though it found itself in dire straits in the 1990s. As a result, German giant Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, elected to take it over in 1998.
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