Will Fiat Chrysler will be broken up and sold in pieces by the end of the year?
>In fiscal 2015, a year of record volume in North American auto sales, FCA eked out a profit of $410 million (U.S.) on record sales of $120 billion. Its profit would have been just $104 million without the contribution of Ferrari, which FCA has recently spun off. If this is the best FCA can do when the notoriously volatile auto industry is at its peak, buckets of red ink are in store, come the inevitable next industry downturn.
>http://archive.is/dwGhL#selection-897.16-897.248
>https://www.thestar.com/business/2016/04/29/why-fiat-chrysler-may-have-reached-the-end-of-the-road-olive.html
>That explains why FCA has a modest shareholder value, or market cap, roughly equal to that of the much smaller Mazda Motor Corp., which has about one-third FCA’s vehicle production.
>Fiat, of course, was effectively insolvent just over a decade ago, and Chrysler plunged into bankruptcy protection in 2009. The bigger and better-run Daimler AG lost all of the more than $40 billion it spent over a decade trying to make a go of Chrysler. Marchionne’s effort to do the same, but this time by bashing together two weak companies in the expectation of creating a stronger one, was a shoot-the-moon proposition from the start.
And it hasn’t worked.
>>15006030
nice sources, mr. tyrone mc goldsteinberg
>dodge is failing
>for the last 100 years
>>15006030
Damn, it really seemed like they had a smaller lineup of higher quality vehicles this time around. I don't want them to fail.
>>15006030
OK, the only parts of FCA that people might want are Dodge trucks and Jeep. So who buys them? Mazda? Mitsubishi? Hyundai?
>>15006605
>FCA
>high quality
>>15006919
>OK, the only parts of FCA that people might want are Dodge trucks and Jeep
t. Murrika
>>15006050
>The bigger and better-run Daimler AG lost all of the more than $40 billion it spent over a decade trying to make a go of Chrysler.
Daimler poured Chrysler's megre profits into development of Mercedes CUVs, gave Chrysler some cast off bits in lieu of actual development, and stole the Viper for use as the SLS, leaving the Viper to miss several production years, effectively squandering all the power of the brand.
Fiat is doing largely the same thing, pouring the profits of Jeep and Ram into the development of Italian cars, at the expense of competitiveness in the US, in the regular car market.
>>15006930
Jeep, Ram, and Ferrari were the three profit centers for FCA. Fiat, Alfa, Lancia, Maserati, Abarth, SRT, and Fiat's industrial concerns all operate at a loss.
Ferrari has been spun off. FCA is now basically nothing but a dumpster fire for Ram and Jeep to pour their money into.
