Investment firm DWS wants DaimlerChrysler to consider selling its US Chrysler unit, as a restructuring measure for the US automaker reports, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. DWS owns about 0.85 peer cent of DaimlerChrysler shares.

DaimlerChrysler is the world's largest commercial truckmaker and the world's fifth biggest carmaker. In the next two days it will unveil its latest restructuring plan for Chrysler, which last year saw sluggish sales.

Analysts say thousands of job cuts and closure of two US Chrysler plants, may be on thje anvil. Already GM and Ford have announced tens of thousands of job cuts, and the closure of dozens of plants, in a bid to return to profitability.

The US carmarkers have been losing market share to their Japanese rivals.