There I was, laying quietly at home at 4 in the morning wondering just what the hell had caused me to seemingly lose the ability to sleep but let me all the tiredness to deal with when my brain decided to notice a very interesting pattern: Almost all of the new cars I want come from FCA.

After I finally managed to sleep (and had a strange nightmare about a bear with tiny little bears spurting out of it for no adequately-explained reason) I expanded on this idea. There are a few exceptions of course. Um…The Mercedes-Maybach S600 naturally. And I would turn to GM for all my enormous SUV needs because they’re the guys you call when you want to buy a car that’s absolutely massive.

On the other side of the spectrum there’s rumors that that Honda is planning to stuff a bigger 1.0-liter engine to their lovely new S660 Roadster and bring it to America. And please whomever’s listening let it be the Amazing 230 horsepower V4 engine they put on the RC213V-S superbike because if it is it could very well become the best affordable sports car ever made. But for everything falling in between those two extremes the name at the top of the list comes from something that has Fiat Chrysler Automobiles written on its VIN tag.

The FIAT 500 Abarth may not be the fastest hot hatch available on the market today but it’s the best-looking and the noisiest of them all. Sure the ergonomics are a bit iffy and from the back it looks taller than it is wide but there’s no denying that it is epic. And if you don’t want to deal with that much power, there’s the 105 HP TwinAir. Same character, half the fuel bill.The Chrysler 300C is the defendants of the traditional (read: not particularly sporty) American sedan, which is a segment that the Koreans and the Japanese are doing brilliantly at. The Jeep Grand Cherokee (“The most awarded SUV ever” according to FCA) somehow seems considerably less dull than the rest of its blandmatic competition, I’m guessing that the 6.4-Liter engine fitted to some of them may have something to do with that.

And do I really have to go on detail about the Charger/Challenger/Wrangler/Viper/Quattroporte GTS/FF and why do I like them? I’m extremely excited by the new Fiat 124. And Sergio’s leadership hasn’t just been successful for enthusiasts and fans of the strange, but also to stockholders. Indeed they’ve just finished an absolute success of a year in 2014 with an 11% increase in revenue and a net profit of $1.3 Billion dollars. Which brings me to the title of this article. And, come to think of it, to another question. If FCA is doing so well and only getting better why is it that no one else wants to merge with it?

Well. Macchione arguments that he wants to merge because economies of scale would mean more efficiency and less and considerably reduced development costs without the need to fire employees or compromise the image of the brands involved. Everyone wins, or so his presentation says so. However, the last time Chrysler tried this sort of thing we got the much maligned “Merger of equals” that created DaimlerChrysler…and the less we say about that the better. According to Forbes, the success rate of mergers and acquisitions is 50% or thereabouts. And if both companies are successful in their own right it’s understandable that they wouldn’t want to take the risk of spending a pile of money only for it to go neatly to the drain in a failed merge unless of course that gave them a monopoly (Looking at you Comcast/TWC).

More concerning it would be if he actually does what he said and offers to merge with Google or Apple. Leaving aside the fact that both of them are essentially the anti-Fiat I’m genuinely concerned about what they’d do to influence FCA’s products. We’ve already seen Google’s idea of a car and I strongly suspect that Apple will want to charge $60,000 for a sleek and elegant city car with a 1.0-liter engine and as little buttons as humanly possible. And then what conglomerate will I think about when I am sleep-deprived?