Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has had enough trouble with unions lately, and now, as I write, Fiat is struggling with the logistics nightmare of a truckers strike that seems to be bringing Italy to a halt.
There’s an earlier report here and a comment piece by our own Simon Warburton who has long covered Fiat v unions for us. The new TV ad to which he refers, BTW, is here.
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There were also some encouraging signs that all is not entirely lost at Saab though any resurrection will clearly not be in a form as we knew it. It was good to hear that a co-operative bid including the city of Trollhattan has secured the museum and its collection of Saabs back to Car #1 which is a better fate for such a classic car collection than auction at the hands of receivers.
Otherwise, the week was a really mixed bag – EV maker Fisker lowered its forecast for 2012; it looked like US sales might be falling again; more news leaked out about BMW’s plans for South America and Nissan announced a new plant for Mexico (since leading to speculation of new partner Damiler’s role in all this).
This early in, 2012’s shaping up to be an interesting year…
Have a nice weekend.
Graeme Roberts, Deputy Editor, just-auto.com
