Stop everything they’re doing, have Marchionne meet with an “accident”, build cars people want.

I realize how steaming hot this take is, but I just can’t help myself: this decision completely encapsulates why I prefer Hamilton to Rosberg. Hamilton is totally driven to win races and world championships. As long as there’s a faint chance of him winning one or the other, he’ll be out there, churning out laps. So…

This is just another reason not to buy cars made by shit manufactures.

It’s a safety feature to keep you on your toes.

Price of consumer goods in a country is generally directly related to the percentage of the value created by the population that goes to the government (overall taxation), which is very low in US and very high in Europe and developing countries.

Looking great is something FCA is doing well these days. Sadly as for doing a car well, its not looking great for FCA.

I know why Ferrari is so slow in F1 this year now. They just want to give Vettel and Kimi a car that feels good rather than worry about it actually being quick.

VW is down 13.6% YTD, after their giant fuckup and PR fallout.

The long, painful slide to irrelevancy for FCA should be punishment enough. Let’s be frank: with the exception of Jeep (and possibly the Ram truck line), there isn’t a whole lot going on over there. Within five years Jeep and Ram will be sold to a Chinese suitor, Fiat will be a division of some European powerhouse,…

4th gear: More Fun with FCA...read today’s Autoextremist. If he’s right that high level people are leaving in droves (would like to see some proof of that), then things are bad. And bad things are bad

If you have no lemons, deny that anyone wants lemonade.

Sure, because making crappy vehicles with the worst build quality in the industry is clearly the future...

I don’t think I’ll apologize for not believing the CEO of a company whose products anchor the bottom of reputable reliability ratings and who is betting his hand on high profit gas guzzler vehicles and cheap gas forever. He doesn’t, to me, seem very “in tune” with market direction.

You know what else isn't the future of cars? Fiat Chrysler.

Ah, I’ll never forget it. I was a PC and Nintendo gamer at age 13. It was first day at summer camp, and we had a break. I brought a gaming magazine from home intending to read it there. There was an interview with the older president of Nintendo, but current at the time. I read it and towards the middle, my heart…

He’s finished.

Yep, that forward-thinking genius has definitely been worth over a quarter billion dollars for the last decade. Good job, Fiat.

I’m starting to think that Sergio is just looking for a way to deploy his golden parachute. I don’t know enough about how the company/it’s board is structured, but if I were a board member that heard this, I’d begin looking for a new CEO. Sergio clearly can’t see the forest for the trees.

And yet they can not figure out how to make FIAT cars stay running or have any reliability at all.

Ok, that’s enough, I can no longer stand Marchionne. He can get away with all the absurd stuff he says, basically because oil prices and the resulting Jeep/truck surge are buoyed FCA’s sales figures, while the rest of it relatively flounders. That being said, I don’t know if electrification is the answer, but then…