Fiat ottiene il 100% di Chrysler (01/01/2014)

[luca90]

Bellissimo quel concessionario!

[owluca]

Si hai ragione, forse la cosa sarà più evidente quando e (se) il cinquino si diffonda un pochino di più anche nelle piccole comunità della provincia USA.

cosa intendi esattamente per piccola comunità ?

forse una roba cosi ?

riporto anche lo storico che però non so se funziona:

http://www.videoanni80.com/watch.php?vid=29de6cd7a

Non penso che rimarranno particolarmente sbigottiti davanti alla 500L.

no, io temo si straniscano per l'edificio

Modificato 27 Aprile 2014 da owluca

[Abarth03]

Guarda dentro

Sì ho capito, ma io mi ero posto la domanda intendendola nel senso "cosa c'entra l'850 coriasco col mercato USA" voglio dire, heritage per heritage io avrei messo non dico un 124 spider (troppo ovvio, direte) ma almeno un'850 spider, un 128, insomma una macchina che il suolo americano l'ha visto per davvero. Opinione mia eh, lo so, sono io che ragiono male

PS. lo showroom, ribadisco, è davvero carino.

[Guest EC2277]

Si, ma così perdi l'effetto pittoresco della novità d'annata.

[Regazzoni]

Si, ma così perdi l'effetto pittoresco della novità d'annata.

Così come, certamente, costa meno affittare una cimelio non circolante che una storica che probabilmente è ancora utilizzata per eventi e raduni.

[Albertw]

Mi permetto di rubare le foto e di caricarle su ICS, citando la fonte

Molto bella la concessionaria.. Meno male che tra poco avranno un terzo modello da mostrare

[Regazzoni]

Mi permetto di rubare le foto e di caricarle su ICS, citando la fonte

Molto bella la concessionaria.. Meno male che tra poco avranno un terzo modello da mostrare

Suggerisco di citare anche la fonte originale, ovvero il sito dell'azienda che ha realizzato il punto vendita: Commercial Gallery | Hickory Construction, Inc.

La prima galleria è quella del concessionario Fiat. E dentro è pure fatta meglio che fuori.

[MacGeek]

Se invece intende le foto della nuova insegna, la fonte originale è questa:

Alfa Romeo's return to USA - Page 64 - Alfa Romeo Bulletin Board & Forums

[Regazzoni]

Analisi e pagella del primo quinquennio di gestione di Chrysler da parte di Fiat. A firma Automotive News.

Programmi del 2009 rispettati, miglioramenti generali e in particolare sui punti deboli, vendite costantemente crescenti, alcuni errori circoscritti.

Chrysler in 2014 closely resembles what Marchionne said it would 5 years ago

TROIT -- In late 2009, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne and his team laid out an audacious five-year plan to rebuild Chrysler Group. The verdict is in: It worked.

Today, as company executives prepare to unveil on May 6 a new five-year plan that comes near the fifth anniversary of the automaker's bankruptcy, Chrysler is profitable. Its products and marketing are vastly better. Its dealers are making more money than they have in decades. Sales continue to grow. Neither the U.S. government nor the UAW holds an ownership stake.

There have been stumbles and setbacks, to be sure -- the Fiat brand relaunch and the half-baked Dodge Dart spring to mind. But Chrysler deserves a strong B+ for its performance during the last five years.

Chrysler expended a herculean effort to improve the products it inherited from Cerberus Capital Management and Daimler AG.

The best work was done where it was needed most: vehicle interiors.

Beginning with the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, Chrysler's designers excised the lineup's hard plastic and rat-gray interiors one by one. They placed pleasing, soft plastics almost everywhere a consumer would touch.

They added handy storage spaces, such as under the passenger seat in the Dart, 2014 Jeep Cherokee and 2015 Chrysler 200. They installed a well regarded 8.4-inch touchscreen Uconnect infotainment system in most of the lineup.

Chrysler has made great strides with its large cars, crossovers, pickups and SUVs, thanks in large measure to the 3.6-Penta-star V-6 and an eight-speed transmission for rear-wheel-drive vehicles that it licensed from ZF Friedrichshafen.

The powertrain combo gave much of Chrysler's lineup either competitive or class-leading performance and fuel economy, especially in profit-rich products such as the Ram 1500 pickup, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Dodge Durango and Chrysler 300.

Early indications are that Chrysler's experiment in bringing light-duty diesels to its Ram 1500 pickup and Jeep Grand Cherokee is a success and will be expanded to other vehicles.

Chrysler continues to struggle with its chronic weaknesses: small cars, small-displacement engines and overall quality.

The 2013 Dodge Dart is likely one for which the automaker would ask for a do-over if it could. Marchionne acknowledged that the Dart was launched with the wrong transmission, and that he had underestimated North American resistance to fuel-efficient dual dry clutch automatics.

He also said that the car had too much content for its segment and needed to lose weight.

The dealers

According to National Chrysler Dealer Council members, Chrysler Group dealers are now more profitable than they have been in decades. Chrysler Group dealerships coming up for sale are once again commanding premiums for "blue sky"-- the intangible value of a dealership, including goodwill and other intangibles such as customer lists. Dealers have been able to offset a considerable drop in warranty work because of improving product quality with sales of parts, accessories and service plans. However, Chrysler's reliance on stair-step sales incentives -- which provide incentive payments to dealers only if they achieve certain sales goals -- leave some dealers less profitable than they could be.

Many of the 220 Fiat dealerships continue to struggle, though some are profitable. Some dealers spent $3 million or more to build stand-alone Fiat stores in 2010 so Chrysler could reintroduce the Fiat brand to North America. But Fiat dealers were given a skimpy product portfolio.

The company

As for profits, Chrysler has been slightly more costly to operate than what Marchionne projected five years ago. Still, Chrysler did pay off its high-interest government loans by refinancing them at a lower rate in the private sector. Parent Fiat also bought out the ownership stake of the UAW's Retiree Health Care Trust.

Chrysler earned its first post-bankruptcy profit in 2011 and has made more money each year. Last year's net income was $2.8 billion, compared with the $652 million it lost in 2010.

The plan's 2009 projections for global vehicle deliveries have been spot on, and Chrysler's plan to rebuild its U.S. market share to 13 percent is very close to completion. In July 2009, Chrysler's market share was 8.9 percent.

Chrysler made great strides in improving its relationship with suppliers between 2009 and 2012, but its progress was halted in 2013, according to a much-watched annual supplier survey.

Chrysler brought one assembly plant back that it intended to close after its April 30, 2009, Chapter 11 filing, and continues to add shifts and expand production at all of its 36 assembly, engine, transmission and parts plants.

Since 2009, the automaker has added 25,500 employees and invested more than $5.2 billion into its plants, including thousands of new engineers and designers.

Several of Chrysler's plants have dramatically improved their productivity and efficiency under Fiat's World Class Manufacturing system. Five of its plants -- Windsor, Toledo and Saltillo Truck assembly and Dundee and Trenton engine -- now rival Fiat's best operating global factories.

The gains made under world class manufacturing have allowed Chrysler to cut its manufacturing costs and increase profits.

Final grade

On Nov. 4, 2009, the company set high targets. With few exceptions, it achieved them all. The company has dramatically improved its products, returned to profitability, paid off its government loans and bought out the stake owned by the UAW's health care trust. Today, Chrysler is far different than it was five years ago. To Marchionne's credit, the company looks a lot like he said it would.

Pagellino riassuntivo.

[Archaon]

, grande risultato, adesso vediamo se la parte europea andrà altrettanto bene. La sfida maserati è sulla buona strada, ma jeep in Europa e alfa romeo aspettano il rilancio.

Mentre la strategia 500 paga bene per il brand fiat.

Modificato 28 Aprile 2014 da Archaon