FCA did under invest in Europe, and addition PSA gained scale with Opel hand off, and therefore the upper hand in Europe.
But for luxury/premium, both Carlos have been unsuccessful with Infiniti at Renault-Nissan Alliance.
He was more successful with DS than FCA with Alfa in Europe. Pretty telling of what the FCA strategy for Alfa led to.
The DS7 Crossback sells double the numbers of the Stelvio (which by the way is selling even less now than the Macan and F-Pace).
Anyone can rant and rave about the strategy that Stellantis
might implement for Alfa Romeo. Although the Giulia and the Stelvio are great products, the strategy that originated them was aborted almost after they were launched. The Tonale wasn't supposed to come out before the E-segment sedan and SUV.
If the strategy is launching FWD Alfas, but that ensures that we actually get Alfa cars instead of renders then I'm all for it.
Are the platforms from PSA inferior? Maybe. Did FCA do anything with their superior platforms to justify using them instead? No.
If you want to talk about capital then tell me: how much would it cost to re-adapt all the PSA plants to use the FCA platforms that are producing at full steam?
How much does it cost to adapt the under-used FCA plants?
FCA strategy placed Alfa and the other european brands in this situation, so for Bare: if you want to lay blame at the feet of someone for what's coming place at the feet of who mismanaged the european side of FCA. That someone was Marchionne.