pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/chrysler/" rel="tag"Chrysler, LLC./a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/gm/" rel="tag"GM/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/battle-royale-gm-vs-chrysler/1121964/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/battleroyale_opt.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick above for the Battle Royale between GM and Chrysler models/small/strong/embr //div br /span style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 7px;" script var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/If_GM_and_Chrysler_merge_which_models_survive'; /script script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"/script/spanAt first we thought the idea of a merger between General Motors and Chrysler LLC was laughable. We still do, but persistent reports to the contrary have us fearing that this marriage just might happen. Combining these two automakers would be a messy job, as many models on both sides of the fence compete directly with on another in the marketplace. If the merger does happen, someone may have to sit down and decide which models stay and which go. We decided to play arm chair auto executive quarterback and hold a Battle Royale. We've pitted model against model in 12 segments in which GM and Chrysler compete directly. In this thought experiment, only one model in each segment will survive to see the New World Order. Get to clickin' below to find out which ones make it. br /br /emstrongClick here for /stronga href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/battle-royale-gm-vs-chrysler/1121964/"strongMatch 1: Chevy Cobalt vs. Dodge Caliber/strong/abr /br //emdiv class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/battle-royale-gm-vs-chrysler/"Battle Royale: GM vs. Chrysler/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/battle-royale-gm-vs-chrysler/1121964/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/00_gm_chrysler_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Chevy Cobalt vs. Dodge Caliber" title="Chevy Cobalt vs. Dodge Caliber" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/battle-royale-gm-vs-chrysler/1121952/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/01_gm_chrysler_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Pontiac G6 vs. Dodge Avenger" title="Pontiac G6 vs. Dodge Avenger" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/battle-royale-gm-vs-chrysler/1121974/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/02_gm_chrysler_opta_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Pontiac G8 vs. Dodge Charger" title="Pontiac G8 vs. Dodge Charger" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/battle-royale-gm-vs-chrysler/1121959/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/03_gm_chrysler_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Chevy HHR vs. Chrysler PT Cruiser" title="Chevy HHR vs. Chrysler PT Cruiser" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/battle-royale-gm-vs-chrysler/1121954/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/04_gm_chrysler_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Saturn VUE vs. Jeep Patriot" title="Saturn VUE vs. Jeep Patriot" //a/divp style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com"img src="http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Autoblog" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/27/battle-royale-if-gm-and-chrysler-merge-which-models-survive/"Battle Royale: If GM and Chrysler merge, which models survive?/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:55:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/27/battle-royale-if-gm-and-chrysler-merge-which-models-survive/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1354396/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/27/battle-royale-if-gm-and-chrysler-merge-which-models-survive/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=T4PUE0"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=T4PUE0" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=zbpKm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=zbpKm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=jrjJm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=jrjJm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/434130943" height="1" width="1"/