Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot shareholders vote to merge, creating world's fourth-largest car maker

[wemay]

NBC News: Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot shareholders vote to merge, creating world's fourth-largest car maker.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/au...iat-chrysler-creating-world-s-fourth-n1252712

 

[JoelB]

Hopefully this means we get some cool little European cars here in the states. Even though it really means more SUV's and crossovers. Sigh...

 

[Oro_O]

In other news, September 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan combine to create unstoppable tripartite pact...

It's going to end just the same.

 

[levi]

IMO, Chrysler has been a dead man walking ever since Bob Eaton sold them to Daimler-Benz.

Bunch more auto companies consolidation ahead.

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

IMO this makes no sense. Mergers like this require a consolidation of assets and autoworkers are politically protected. This will not end well unless the new entity shrinks via attrition.

 

[4WD]

IMO, Chrysler has been a dead man walking ever since Bob Eaton sold them to Daimler-Benz.

Bunch more auto companies consolidation ahead.

Like Ram, Wrangler, and JGC … nobody buys those …

 

[tyman]

Wew. Sorry for Peugeot.

 

[PimTac]

Like Ram, Wrangler, and JGC … nobody buys those …

Those are the brands the Chinese wanted. The rest would whither away. That deal didn’t go through. I definitely see brand names disappearing in the near future. Stellantis doesn’t need 6 or 8 brand names.

 

[Skippy722]

Those are the brands the Chinese wanted. The rest would whither away. That deal didn’t go through. I definitely see brand names disappearing in the near future. Stellantis doesn’t need 6 or 8 brand names.

I don’t think anything branded Peugeot or Citroën would sell well here in the states.... “Americanize” the styling a bit, sell them under a familiar brand (maybe Chrysler and/or Jeep for crossovers for instance) and it might work.

 

[OVERKILL]

Those are the brands the Chinese wanted. The rest would whither away. That deal didn’t go through. I definitely see brand names disappearing in the near future. Stellantis doesn’t need 6 or 8 brand names.

Yes, but there have already been a few that disappeared, like Plymouth, Eagle, AMC...etc. Look at GM, post-bankruptcy, Saturn, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Hummer, none of those survived. Hummer is now coming back as some ridiculous model of EV

 

[Traction]

I remember that on a few Chrysler K-cars back in late 70's, etc. When I had my second car in HS, a 68 GTO, I only could afford 2 aluminum wheels, so I ran those on the drivers side, and hubcaps on the other. Can only see one side at a time, so my car looked cool half the time.

 

[Kira]

Thanks for the link.
Unfortunately, these news releases is as far as most go in tracking what any "new" company does.
To PimTac: Maybe the "6 or 8 brand names" are regional.
I'm not certain the involved brand names are as cheap as Plymouth/Dodge or Pontiac/Oldsmobile became.

 

[PimTac]

I don’t think anything branded Peugeot or Citroën would sell well here in the states.... “Americanize” the styling a bit, sell them under a familiar brand (maybe Chrysler and/or Jeep for crossovers for instance) and it might work.

No but take a Peugeot sedan and stick a Chrysler badge on it and it might. They do make some nice looking cars.

 

[Silver]

I think they could have came up with a better name, like Asparagus Motors or Fungus Group, Inc.

 

[2EHA]

obviously there’s gonna be a consolidation of platforms between FCA, the remnants of GM Europe and PSA. until then they’re gonna be competing with themselves