Posts Tagged ‘fiat’
Didn’t Fiat once occupy the motoring pages for new cars too? Of course they did, only recently their delightful little 500 was picking up all the headlines for design awards and stop-start technology and now there’s rumours floating around about Fiat that involve cars rather than purchasing countries.
Never ones to rest on their laurels, the [...]
His name must be one of the most discussed in motoring press since Lee Iacocca first saved Chrysler back in the 80’s but sat this morning, while nursing my first coffeeat the office, that Sergio Marchionne was planning on another big buy: Switzerland.
Once I’d mopped up the spluttered coffee I learnt that this was, infact, [...]
According to a certain search engine, there’s a Kent in Texas aswell as ‘my’ Kent here in the UK. In my mind, and probably reality, there’s nothing similar between the two. I imagine the Texan version to be far diffetrent to the green and verdant-hilled ‘garden of England’ Kent in the UK.
Things are, allegedly, [...]
I get the impression now that board meetings at Fiat are starting to resemble a Pinky and the Brain cartoon with CEO Sergio Marchionne uttering the famous words “try to take over the world!”
In motoring terms, Monday could see them get a whole lot closer as Machionne is set to meet German economic and foreign [...]
It used to be some guy called Raymond, but now everybody loves economy. Fuel economy, that is, and everybody being car buyers. Well, that’s what the car makers believe as they’re lining up to push new, increasingly economical versions of their cars onto the roads.
A new version of the already perfect-for-the-city, new Fiat 500 yesterday [...]
There’s usually one assocaition with the phrases “axes” and “job cuts” but imagine my surprise when Fiat announced they’re axing the job cuts. The best kind of double negative? I think so.
So what’s going on? Fiat have cancelled their scheduled factory shutdowns that would have affected 8,000 workers and, for once, it’s thanks to the [...]
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