The suit was filed in October 2000 after the Financial Times reported that Daimler-Benz Chairman JuergenSchrempp said he always intended Chrysler to be nothing more than a unit of DaimlerChrysler.
No wonder JuergenSchrempp at DaimlerChrysler is pleased with himself - he seems to have managed what few of his compatriot tycoons have achieved - a solid merger with a large US company.
Daimler's 1998 merger with Chrysler also collapsed in 2007, amid much disgruntlement in Detroit about the-then chief executive Juergen Schrempp's domineering attitude that gave the impression that Chrysler had been an acquisition for the German group.