DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR: Well, DaimlerChrysler now owns a little more than one-third of Mitsubishi. Does that mean some changes are in store for the Japanese carmaker? Lionel Barber of the "Financial Times" joins us now from the "FT's" London newsroom. And Lionel, does it mean some changes are coming?</s>LIONEL BARBER, NEWS EDITOR, "FINANCIAL TIMES": No question about it. I think if you look at the exclusive interview, which we carry in today's paper with Jurgen Schrempp, who is the boss of DaimlerChrysler, he's clearly signaling that the car company has got 33 percent, but it wants to go higher, and it really wants to carry out the kind of restructuring which is being done so successfully at the big rival, at Nissan, which today, by the way, is reporting much higher-than-expected profits. Mr. Schrempp sees Nissan as almost an ice breaker, breaking the corporate mold there, and he wants to follow in those footsteps.</s>HAFFENREFFER: Chrysler has been a bit of a drag on Daimler ever since they took it over. Do you think there could be, or is there any speculation about what might be done about Chrysler?</s>BABRER: Well, in a sense, this is an unfolding process. Mr. Schrempp told the editor of the "Financial Times" in the interview which we carry today that he really always saw Chrysler as a separate division. This was never a partnership of equals, and therefore, I think you're just going to see Daimler really in the driver's seat and Chrysler in the second tier, and then you try and get the kind of cost efficiencies and a much leaner management organization.</s>HAFFENREFFER: All right. Thank you very much. Lionel Barber at the "Financial Times" on this Monday morning.
'Financial Times': DaimlerChrysler Considers Mitsubishi Reorganization