Sergio Marchionne to leave FCA at the end of 2018

FCA, Marchionne conferma la sua uscita dal Gruppo nel 2018

His successor should be choosen from inside the company.

Rgds

 

Hurrah!

 

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

 

I don't envy his successor when he might have already jeopardised too much of the company's future in name of quick profits and balance sheets.

Btw I'd never seen this, linked on the same page Ferrari Testa d?Oro, l?unico esemplare è sparito

That's the weirdest thing!

 

Sorry, Igor, what is weird? The fact that such a unique car has been stolen, (it is Italy, after all...) or the car in itself? Because coming from the drawing board of Luigi Colani, it is by far not the worst thing he has done; he could do much worse...

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The car itself, with the prancing horse on it! How?

 

Concept Car of the Week: Colani Ferrari Testa D?oro (1989) - Car Design News

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I totally love Colani and his designs. Got a book full of his studies.

 

+27

 

You really do? Well, I don't; really not...

(By the way, he has his place in a Formula One forum, for the March-Eiffeland of 1972...

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Rgds

 

Kill it with fire!!! Not that it would look any different probably

 

Not particularly great news unless we know who will be next. Never say it can't be worse!

; )

 

Luigi Colani designed several Bonneville land speed racers too, all called Utah.

He was very prolific, designing trains, cars, aircraft, boats, motorcycles, etc...

Most of them unpractical and with no future, but certainly challenging.

I assume you know that, in spite of his Italian-sounding name, he is German.

A bit like the Salvador Dali of design. They shared the same extravagant attitude.

 

He has German and Swiss citizenship, and his first name at birth was Lutz, not Luigi.
But his origins are difficult to ascertain; his mother was polish, but his father is reported sometimes as "German with Italian ascendency", or "Swiss german", or even from "Kurd origins"...
You know that he studied aerodynamism at "La Sorbonne", of all places, between 1949 and 1952?

Rgds

 

+1!

I remember he was all the rage when I studied Industrial Design at Pratt in the early 80s...

 

So another two years fiddling around trying to micro manage the F1 team...Seb will probably walk away long before the sweater guy leaves.

 

Actually this is pretty old news. Marchionne has talked about retiring at the end of 2018 for the past couple of years.

And his management of the FCA group has been excellent. Not many models, but he paid the US government debt early, and his goal is to reduce dramtically before retiring total FCA debt, and expect a share price explosion.

I bought shares when I got word he was buying, and I've done well.

 

As already announced a while ago, not really big news.

But about that Colani, who would steal a one-off car? There is not a big market for a car that everybody definitely knows it´s been stolen.

 

Super villain. Only shows it to secret agents before feeding them to his sharks.

 

This was always the plan.

Unfortunately.

 

I think that thing is hideous and i'm glad somebody stole it!!! with some luck no one will ever see it again!!

 

Not soon enough.

 

No, I didn't even know you could study aerodynamics at the Sorbonne, and I lived not far from it for a couple of years!!

 

No, I didn't even know you could study aerodynamism at the Sorbonne, and I lived not far from it for a couple of years!!