The Chrysler-Lancia Connection needs to be reviewed.
Posted: September 19, 2011 Filed under: INDUSTRY TALK | Tags: 200, 300, Badge Engineering, Chrysler, Flavia, Fulvia, Grand Voyager, Lancia, marchionne, Mind over motor, Minivan, Mistake, Sedan, Thema, Town and Country, Ypsilon Leave a comment »
There's one thing to separate this from the 300: The badge. The 300 is a great full-size car, but Lancia deserves better than an American transplant.
If there is one brand that does the best job of no longer resembling its roots, it is Lancia. Since the death of the Delta Integrale in the early Nineties, Lancia hasn’t really had a halo car, and has not been much more than a Fiat offshoot. Since Chrysler has come under the Fiat banner, Sergio Marchionne has announced a partnership between Chrysler and Lancia. Read the rest of this entry »
My thoughts on the whole Hybrid/Electric thing….
Posted: June 16, 2011 Filed under: AUTOMOTIVE INSIGHTS, INDUSTRY TALK | Tags: activists, Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Battery, Cars, CR-Z, Diesel, disposal, economy, electric, EV, fuel mileage, Global Warming, green, Hybrid, ignorant public, Leaf, Mind over motor, Mistake, Prius, Roadster, technology, Tesla, Truth, vehicle, Volt 2 Comments »
The Top Gear crew pushing a Nissan Leaf that ran out of juice during a test
Ever since Al Gore’s little film there has been a bit of a frenzied panic going on in many areas, but especially in the car industry. Everyone has sudden obsession with green technology in an effort to save the earth from turning into an igloo in two days time without warning. Now I’m not one of those people who says that global warming is not real, not by a long shot, but the overwhelming majority of people do not actually know anything about what actually it is, and have just jumped onto the panic bandwagon like a bunch of spontaneous, ignorant, morons. This hysteria has become a detriment to much of the automotive industry because it has forced many companies to rush development and quality has suffered. Read the rest of this entry »
