The Japanese companies are considering joining forces to survive in a rapidly changing auto industry, but auto history is filled with troubled and failed marriages. Automobiles, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, Shutdowns (Institutional), Driverless and Semiautonomous Vehicles, Layoffs and Job Reductions, Factories and Manufacturing, Politics and Government, Stocks and Bonds, Sports Utility Vehicles and Light Trucks, Corporations, Labor and Jobs, Executives and Management (Theory), DaimlerChrysler AG, Honda Motor Co Ltd, Nissan Motor Co, Stellantis NV, Japan, United States, Germany, France, Italy, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV The Japanese companies are considering joining forces to survive in a rapidly changing auto industry, but auto history is filled with troubled and failed marriages. NYT > Business