I thought this too....until this:

This, 100%.

Good.

Seems like the kid’s mom should have put some hard and fast limitations on her criminal son, so I’m pretty O.K. with the precedent getting stretched here.  It would have taken the huge step of, oh I don’t know, NOT leaving the keys to the Bimmer sitting on the kitchen counter when she left town.  Not much to ask when…

Sounds to me like this mom was afraid of her own child. She did things to placate him and avoid violence, much like an abusive spouse.

Based on your math, no there isn’t room.

Also the part where they blamed it all on the new billing model. Y’know, where they can’t just bill NASA for enormous cost overruns anymore and actually have to deliver a product for the quoted cost.

So let me get this straight.

Willys. Kaiser. AMC. Renault. Chrysler. Daimler. Cerberus. Fiat. PSA/Stellantis.

One would think they’d have learned their lesson with the Gladiator, but the smarter people think they are, the more impervious to learning they tend to be...

It isn’t that simple. As Apple continues to iterate CarPlay, it is demanding more and more control of in-vehicle systems. Apple doesn’t just want to “integrate” into the native system of a vehicle, they are demanding further and further ownership of the entire in vehicle infotainment experience. In some cases, that…

Can’t imagine VAG buying Jeep when they’re in the middle of resurrecting the International Scout. Nor do I see Mercedes going for DaimerChrysler II: American Boogaloo. No idea what Chinese buyers think of Jeep/Ram, but that seems like the most likely outcome. Probably not to sell trucks/SUVs in China, but to attempt…

We can keep doing this thing where we beg for CarPlay to come back, but Apple continues to demand more and more control over the functions of vehicles. Other OEM’s will follow suit if Apple keeps it up. They couldn’t make their own car, so they’ve decided they just want to control all the cars that other OEM’s make.

Correct. And no Jeep even has the panache of an Escalade or even a Denali trim.

CarPlay must not be all that important to GM customers considering GM set their own record revenue and profits in the fiscal year ending 6/30/24.

A U.S. CEO can certainly screw things up too, but I don’t think GM’s Carplay decision is even close to the existential problem facing Stellantis. 

It’s all a show.

Tavares is a bit of an idiot. He can concentrate on one market at a time, and primarily looks at the European market, ignoring most of the others. They’ve basically priced out most potential buyers in the US.

300, Charger, Challenger, all dead. Chrysler has 1 product (Pacifica around since 2016 with little changes). Dodge consists of the Hornet and the ancient Durango which will either go out of production or get replaced. The Ram no longer has a V8 (and a Hemi at that) and good luck trying to market to the same people…