Recent content by MotorMaven

All losers. None of them are reliable, fuel efficient or suited for mainstream consumers. That’s why sales are plummeting. Stellantis has to make affordable, high value cars that meet the needs of everyday consumers for economy, durability and reliability at a price they can afford. They...

Not sure where you’re pulling on the “billions in EV losses.” Those have only occurred at incompetent Detroit automakers and other legacy players, because they deployed their C players to build crap designs at high prices. Detroit hasn’t tried to actually compete with anything out of Asia or...

Oh yes, I forgot about the irresistible charms of base level ‘22 V6 Charger SXTs that make them irresistible to desperate consumers. 🤣

You’re right but you’re also wrong. Layoffs at Ford, GM and “Chrysler” have indeed happened because of bad bets. But those bets are mostly on the big obsolete gas guzzlers you keep trying to prop up. As GM, Ford and Stellantis pull out of mainstream sedans, coupes, competitive crossovers, four...

So you’re a fan of Donald Trump for mostly emotional reasons. That’s fine, but it doesn’t invalidate the quantitative business challenges I laid out that you failed to address. Business doesn’t run on partisan sentiments about how much you love Donald Trump or hate the Democrats. It runs on...

Au contraire. My local CDJR dealer has big stocks of V6 and V8 ‘22 and ‘23 HEMI and Pentastar Challengers, Chargers, Pacificas and Durangos on their lot. Nobody is buying. V6 and V8 full sized cars and trucks are Grandpa Cars, and that shows up in the rapid aging of the buyer base for Chrysler...

Peak sales of gas cars were hit several years ago. EV sales continue to increase both in absolute numbers and as a share of total vehicle sales. The folks denying these facts are like the guys who insisted they’d never give up their iron block V8 Oldsmobiles or Plymouths for 4 cylinder cars...

Chrysler did that in the 70s and almost went bankrupt. They did it again in the early 1990s and almost went bankrupt. Then they did it in 2008 and went bankrupt. If not for the hated Europeans stepping in with bailout cash in 2009 to stop the liquidation, Chrysler would have disappeared back...

Why do that? Stellantis would have to shell out tens of billions of dollars to move tooling, redo the factory, and revamp supply chains all to support two failed brands (Chrysler and Dodge). It’s far more likely they will just let Chrysler and Dodge fade away and have them go the way of...

Chrysler is a goner with this tariff. Dodge probably is too, given that most Dodge products are made outside the USA. Turning around the two failed Mopar brands would require big investment and flexibility in production. Trump has already made building a long term business plan impossible...

It’s not about saving Chrysler. It’s about recognizing that Europe has sunk $30 billion into Chrysler so far and the reward it gets is tariffs and attacks from American politicians. Daimler bailed out Chrysler big-time. The crappy low quality designs that Chrysler creates in the late 1990s...

The issues aren’t connected, not to mention that there’s no evidence of any fentanyl coming from Canada into the USA. The Europeans have to be getting fed up with the USA at this point. European money saved Chrysler from collapse twice in less than a decade — first Daimler and then FIAT. It...

It’s more likely that Stellantis is reassessing its global footprint. With a rogue administration in Washington that defaults on treaty obligations and randomly changes policies every couple of hours, the risk of investing capital in an unreliable market like North America is very high. An...

If the aging boomers demanding pushrod V8s and rejecting modern EV power trains were a major factor in the car buying public, Stellantis would be printing money. Instead the lots are clogged with multiple model years of unsold gas guzzlers. Meanwhile GM and Ford EV sales are soaring and...

I’ve got no problems with you driving a gas car, so long as your use is taxed appropriately to pay for the damage you’re causing. $19 a gallon should cover things.