BREAKING! FCA Has Major Management Shake Up As Marchionne Is OFFICIALLY Out

This is sweet news for the American arm of FCA. Mike Manley will be smart enough to realize that entering--at minimum--into a comprehensive platform-sharing agreement with a strong company is needed.

With any luck, he will not be a capricious drama queen like Sergio.

FCA is set up two companies under one umbrella. Fiat/Alfa-Romeo/Lancia/Maserati is one entity and Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram is another. Selling off the American arm to Hyundai-Kia and inking a long-term platform-sharing arrangement for the Italians is the win/win.

The reality is however that Fiat, Alfa-Romeo, and Maserati are unsustainable brands. None of them do enough business globally to be viable without some deep pockets to prop them up.

Chrysler and Lancia need to die.

Ram needs to be folded back into Dodge.

"With any luck, he will not be a capricious drama queen like Sergio."

Nice, kicking a guy who is in the hospital fighting of his life.

Boo hoo hoo spare me your fake indignation. If you think this is egregious, wait until you see my reaction to McCain's death. LOL

Damn straight! GFR McCain...

Not being a conservative or a republican - or an ALT righter - I find it particularly appalling that the ALT-RIGHT cannot understand that there are VERY GOOD people who are generally conservative - but actually have Brains - HEART - AND COURAGE - something Alt-righter wish they had.

John McCain is an American Hero - and through his tenure in the Senate often led the way for conservatives. I really find it wrong to somehow ignore all the things he did based on a single vote against a really really BAD Health Care bill.

However - scenicbyway12 - THe world has progressed to the point that Alt-righters Cannot even allow a person to DIE in peace without showing HOW Little Brains and Heart they have. THere was a time when Parents taught manners to people - that would have kept them silent at this time. Manners are anothing thing that Alt-righters have given up.

Don't pick on swamp creature McCain. He has only milked his hero status for 40 years and sorry but getting caught doesn't make you a hero it makes you "caught".

His own fellow POWs had nothing nice to say about him. This demented, angry clown should have stepped down last year and how is it we are still listening to his obfuscations impaired by a brain tumor and why wasn't he turfed from the GOP as he is only out for himself. Good riddance indeed and time for term limits!!!

Before I get flamed and I will, -I come from a big military family of actual, real war heroes and they would cringe at that title as they were only doing their job that they happily volunteered for undrafted for love of countrie(s).

@qwertyfla1 Thank you for your family's service.
@TomM #OldDumbassTalking

@QEW you are spewing long discounted lies about John McCain from the right and from people with an axe to grind against the USA normalizing relations with Vietnam. Go spend 5 years in a Vietcong prison and tell us all about how you liked it. Many will show up at his funeral. I can't say the same for the crowd of dingbat posters on this thread. Let's hope Sergio makes a speedy recovery (it was a shoulder operation, so something unexpected must have happened). He can then ride off and then enjoy his retirement.

The problem I have with McCain concerns his current health condition and his capacity to perform his job. Marcchione’s current health condition also makes him incapable of performing his job as such he has been replaced (it should be noted it was 3 people to replace 1).

Whereas politicians, especially Senators (Kennedy, Byrd, Thurmond) refuse. They continue to occupy a position that they are incapable of fulfilling its duties. The site of Senators being wheeled into chambers on their deathbed to cast a vote is an insult to the citizens of a country. Senator Tom Colbert did it right.

Poor Matt - the Alzheimers must be progressing more rapidly - Still - I wish him well when he can no longer post here oranywhere.

At least we can NOW completely IGNORE everything he says - as I have learned to do for a while. Nothing he says is of value anymore

TomM is just triggered at this talk of old people being not long for this world. #OldDumbassTalking

BIG thumbs up to TomM and his post. Nailed it!

The Klan Of Angry Hateful White Men is not Conservatism. It is Neo-Fascism, right down to praising American Nazi machers (who chanted "Jews Will Not Replace Us") as "Fine People", favoring child forfeiture for "undesirables" legally entering the country, and revering dictator and power.

TheSteve chooses to ignore:

The KKK has always been a Democrat/Democrat-supported institution.
If you know the real definition of fascism, that is the mantra of the Democrat party today.
True, the NAZIs were against the Jews, but the Democrats have done everything in their power to destroy Israel.
And you are correct, the Democrats are the party of lawlessness.

Only the MDarringer idiot can start a post regarding a man fighting for his life, lying in coma, with a sentence including „sweet news“.

What a wreck of a person.

Only the MDarringer idiot can start a post regarding a man fighting for his life, lying in coma, with a sentence including „sweet news“.

What a wreck of a person.

See, the thing is Haureg, et. al, your comments have nothing to do with any genuine personal compassion you have for Sergio Marchionne. No. You commentary is solely about appearing to be compassionate and to play the holier-than-thou card. That makes you both #dishonest and a #hypocrite. You're the type that when something bad happens you write the "Our hearts go out to..." post on Facebook and changing your image there to show faux solidarity, but that's as far as your kind goes.

Good riddance! Never a fan of the man.

ACtually - there is so much value in the "CHRYSLER" name - that I would come up with some way to keep it - even if that meant Producing up Market versions of Dodge Vehicles at the beginning. YOu cannot buy the name recognition that a "BRAND" like Chrysler has - remembering that it is the CORPORATE name - not just cars. Imagine "FORD" giving up the FORD name. And - for most of its life - Chrysler was a Premium or 2nd Tier Premium - which competed with Buick in the USA. (THe Imperial competed with Cadillac).

Chrysler was strong when Sergio got the company and then he trashed it.

Dodge is very salvageable and worth salvaging.

Jeep and Ram are jewels.

Pull Chrysler.

Let me see if I understand this correctly “Chrysler was strong when Sergio got the company and then he trashed it.“

Never mind the fact that Daimler had just taken a 26 billion dollar loss to rid themselves of Chrysler, Never mind the fact Chrysler went into bankruptcy AGAIN, Never mind that there wasn’t a single other auto manufacturer that even go near Chrysler, Never mind that the Obama administration had to beg FIAT to take over Chrysler, Never mind that the USA taxpayers had to guarantee the loans for Chrysler to remain in business.

But It was a strong company until Marcchione trashed it. You really should take your car into the shop to check for an exhaust leak, you’re sounding like a Democrat that believes the reason the USA economy is doing great is thanks to Obama.

In terms of its product portfolio Chrysler--the brand--had reasonably good market coverage for its intended segment.

Under Sergio, that dwindled to virtually nothing as he starved it for product all while pursuing Alfa-Romeo and Maserati--neither of which--is selling well as a brand against the intended competition.

The Levante is a dismal seller. Putting that effort into a Chrysler Aspen would likely have sold 10X better.

Doing a long-wheelbase Cherokee softroader for Chrysler could have been accomplished for pennies.

Similarly doing a long-wheelbase Renegade softroader for Chrysler would have been simple.

Pulling a new Charger and Challenger off Giorgio is a matter of putting different hats on the platform.

Marchionne is a bumbler.

@xjug1977a Do you see how easy it was to trigger the members of the American Communist Party formerly known as the Democrat Party?

Just mention McCain parenthetically and they lost their minds.

I wonder how many times they will take the bait. Making them look #unhinged, #psychotic, and #ridiculous is so easy.

MDarringer waiting to celebrate McCains death.

What are you?
A russian bot sucking ?? dick.

And anybody thinking the democrats are communists might as well shoot himself, since he will never learn or understand anything.

What sad conglomerate of living cells.

McCain was a traitor in Vietnam and got people killed. The sooner the traitor and national disgrace is gone, the sooner that blood on his hands is avenged. It really is that simple.

TomM post reasonable stuff.
Gets 9 downvotes.

Adding in repeated MDarringers bullshit.

Count me out.

Do you promise to go away?

Hauerg: Consider ignore the trolls and neo-Fascists. Enjoy the site for what it is.

I found my life improved when I chose to continue expressing myself, and ignoring the Tiki-Torch Crowd's diatribes and derision. You won't get the Nazis to like you. You can't appeal to them with facts or reason. And descent people on this site will surely see them for what they are, without others needing to point it out.

Remember @TheSteve, the Democrats and the Nazis have a lot in common.