Ross Brawn already commented this point back in June by saying that even if the FIA sporting code mentions the 3 continent it doesn’t matter and because of the unrepresented situation FIA will mark this season winners (team and driver) as world champion even if all races are held in Europe.

They do a lot of platform and part sharing and rebadging all around Asia, South America and Europe. Just as a one example Renault’s Flint plant in France produces mix of Nissan and Renault cars as well as loads of components globally shared by both.

Their bread and butter stuff have not been doing great in their home market, but they were early on with Nissan Leaf, and Renault Zoe that has been Europe’s best selling electric car couple of years now.

I think Harley is flawed in too many ways to start unpacking here, and I can’t see how this strategy will save them.  

To get more money by spreading even wider in the market and get even more out of their modular car platforms? By all accounts it worked seeing their rise in profitability and as the largest car manufacturer.

It’s really hard to say much with the information given in the article. It’s very common across Europe and US that EBITDA is big part of bonus system. Also achieving the highest bonuses also lower EBITDA, so you often need to do more than just achieve the goal to get the best possible bonuses.

This doesn’t really deflect what you said, but Audi had price and the looks on wagon/avant for a good decade in their main market were over 50% of the C-class A4's are wagons. The amount of white A4 avants in these parts in 2010 was comical.

Nissan has sold around 1.3 million Qashqai in Europe in 6 years and it was for 3 years the most sold crossover.

I had to check that million figure for FCA. I would have thought it to be quite a bit more considering VW Group’s Skoda alone sells 1.25 million cars in Europe.

I’m sure the world is filled with cheap mostly unlicensed products using Ferrari branding, but the days of official Ferrari laptops seem long gone. In any like mentioned above the whole branding thing tends to get way overblown as it represents at the very max 13% of their revenue, and most likely much less as that…

Didn’t know there was a another city with orange subway interiors. Helsinki metro went for orange in the 70's and after a attempt in the late 90's to change the color it has now come synonymous with the metro and people rather just embrace it.

Fifth Gear was going on for well over a decade and I guess it even returned recently. There were different presenters and different styles, though it was always more dry than Top Gear. I quite liked Jason Plato, Tiff and Vicki. It was at Its worst when it jumped too much into the Top Gear mold - especially as they did…

Renault own 43% and has the same % voting rights. Nissan has zero say on Renault’s business when it comes to voting rights.

Yeah that’s what I’m wondering. They can kick and scream, but the votings rights are still over 43% for Renault on what happens in Nissan, while Nissan has 0% say on Renault.

Renault owns 43% of Nissan and 43% of the voting rights. So Renault has a lot to say on Nissan’s operations.

Though it makes total sense for them to focus on the market they sell most of their cars with the limited battery availability. Tesla does the same with US.

I feel like LNG makes more sense at the moment. There are quite a bit of good examples there already of ships using LNG as its primary propulsion energy. Example part of Viking Lines fleet using LNG for 7 years with the larger ship Viking Line Glory being ready in two years. Carnival Cruise also has one LNG ship with…

Cars of the people was perfect TV as far as I was concerned. I would love another Oz and James, but James mentioned on a interview that he didn’t like the long period of time he had to be away from home. Don’t think it will be repeated unfortunately.

Absolutely and train freight makes a lot of sense in US as well. There’s not much you can do in Central Europe with the huge electrified train networks build for passengers and not tonnages. Though, places like Finland and Sweden where you have the room and no existing dense sprawling network have had easier time at…

Most EU countries adhere to the 22 meter limit as it in any case rarely makes much sense with the density of population. 22 meter limit became a thing when EU directive required ABS brakes back in the day. Sweden and Finland are the only two EU countries that have accepted over 22 meter trucks and those are actively…