At this point in the car industry, the logos and brands are playing musical chairs with one another
car producers
Submitted 10 months ago by SSUPII@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Don’t worry. Angry old white guys with maga hats and stickers of a little kid peeing on something, maybe a punisher sticker, will keep ram in business.
db2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t forget the sticker of a tattered black and blue flag that may or may not have a swastika in there somewhere.
Saapas@piefed.zip 10 months ago
It’s actually four Fs
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Whichever company owns Chrysler has been flailing around from one financial disaster to another for my whole life, and I ain’t that young anymore.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I used to really like their sedans. The 300 was the last good car they made before they were tossed aside by Stellantis to make fucking minivans.
ebc@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
At least they still make minivans, everybody else stopped making them in favour of these ugly-ass “SUV” which are worse in every aspect except towing… There are only 4 options on that market now (well, five if you count the Pacifica separately from the Voyager/Grand Caravan, but it’s more of a trim difference, so let’s say 4.5)
Gonzako@lemmy.world 10 months ago
this is what happens when you turn your company into a shadow bank instead of actually selling your work
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Is ram really failing? I see those shitty trucks spewing black smog everywhere around here.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Stellantis had a disastrous 2024. This is mostly a joke as they are still a massive company, but you understand losing 70% of profits in a year is quite the drastic thing for one.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s a massive drop for any company, although I suspect the US manufacturing industry isn’t doing well in general.
I suspect the main reason is people become far more concerned with reliability and running cost when times are tight, and their vehicles are anything but reliable.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I feel sorry for opel. They made the most out of what gm gave them, now they’re doing the same shit under psa.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 10 months ago
I don’t remember seeing 1 jeep in China, but every mall has a Jeep clothing store.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
ferrari strat
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
And Harley Davidson.
They go hard on branding. They’re one of the few motorcycle brands that let you go for a test ride (others might have a special event day at a dealership where you can ride around the parking lot). If you go for it, expect to be suited up in all the Harley leathers by the sales guy. It’s not a motorcycle, it’s a branded lifestyle where you ride around sometimes.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 10 months ago
GM not so far behind.
db2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s their fault for killing the 2.6.
decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I’m sad. Peugeot used to make decent cars. But they have really not done well since dropping diesel.
MBech@feddit.dk 10 months ago
I’ve been told my whole life to buy Peugeot because they can’t handle cold climates at all.
decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Yeah probably. I still drive a 35 yo Peugeot, and it’s aging decently well for a 1500€ beater.
But winters in France are mild. Colder area might give issues to the chassis with rust.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They are the road stars in Magreb and Argentina
madjo@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Meanwhile Renault, also a Stellantis brand, has made 2 Car of the Years back to back.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Renault is absolutely not a Stellantis brand. It is its own car company.
madjo@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I had heard that they had merged, but that was apparently bad info.
pokexpert30@jlai.lu 10 months ago
I’ve seen random bullshit being thrown in here.
Renault being part of stellantis is at the top.
It’s just french mate
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
After having owned a few if these brands I decided I’d only own some Japanese, German or Korean cars. Never Italian or French. They are great the first 5 years or so, but age like milk. Owned an Opel and it was pretty good, but I guess it’s now off the list. Stellantis is the collection of the worlds least reliable cars.
I drive a 26 year old Skoda (VAG group) which has had not a single major repair, except for timing belts, a clutch, and other consumables.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Some diesel Peogeot and Citroen from early 2000s are still running like a charm with 300k+ km
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Some is the key word here.
UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Jeep is far from failing. And you’d have to pry my ram truck from my cold dead fingers.
A7thStone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t worry, your RAM will die long before you do.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Your car is not gonna vanish, but Stellantis had a disastrous 2024. It is a conglomerate, so if the top fails everyone does.
UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah the former ceo was definitely a bad choice.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Didn’t Jeep just roll out a software update that was bricking 4xe models recently? Also quality has been plummeting (rust, death wobble, garbage 3.6L, etc) for years. They also just did a recall for over 100k hybrid models for fire risks
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fiat stands for: Fix It Already Tomorrow
snooggums@piefed.world 10 months ago
I had a friend whose dad had a little FIAT. He said it stood for Fix It Again Tony, which is obviously a stereotypical slur but also his mechanic was named Tony so it was technically the truth.
SuluBeddu@feddit.it 10 months ago
The irony is that the T stands for Torino, Turin, the city card are supposedly being built, while FIAT became the italian symbol for offshoring
ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I reckon the saddest story here is Abarth, coming from sports exhaust and tuning origins, to then making/tuning some truly impressive cars and a record list a mile long.
And now it’s Fiat slop of cheap EVs to balance Fiats ‘green/emissions’ score card. Itll truely be a sad end to a beautiful brand.
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
FIAT failing so hard it gets to fail twice
db2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Looks like Dodge is in there twice too.
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You mean the Dodge// and the RAM logo? Because RAM was split off into its own brand awhile ago for its trucks. Technically their new pickups are RAM 1500 without any Dodge branding. In practice though people still call them Dodge trucks and they still sell from the same place but nothing has really changed.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Fail It Again, Tony