What sinks faster? Three sinking ships on their lonesome or three sinking ships lashed together?

The classic business example is the Studebaker-Packard Corporation, whereby two companies that couldn't fucking cut it compared to Ford, GM and Chrysler that used to be four companies that couldn't fucking cut it compared to Ford, GM and Chrysler merged into one company that couldn't fucking cut it compared to Ford, GM and Chrysler.

Subaru is Fuji Heavy Industries, formerly the Nakajima Aircraft Company, one of the bigger Zaibatsus of Imperial Japan. "Small and lean" Subaru is kind of like Momcorp on Futurama. Chrysler, meanwhile, is the company that Daimler bought, lost $28b in 9 years and pushed into the ocean to watch it drown from the lifeboat. Fiat took one look at that and said "my kind of loser!" and here we are. Meanwhile, Renault and Nissan have been playing hardcore footsie but they're both sucking bilgewater, too, so by this time next year the only car company left will be Tesla and it'll still be losing $5k per car every car and its stock will be worth $1400 a share because the robots don't care about cars they only give a fuck about instantaneous delta and we'll all ride bicycles and really, the world will be a better place.