Pirelli: Made in China

Hopefully the tires will be improved while also lowering prices.

 

They been making the F1 tyres in Turkey anyway

 

The big question is, how does this affect the Pirelli Calendar?

BHW

 

+1

 

That sucks..

 

So what's new? These days, most of the things come from China anyways.

 

In our days if its not made in China then you start wondering...

 

... Taiwan?

 

Italian company that makes its products in Turkey that is about to be owned by the Chinese.

Yep.

 

Don't forget Volvo was bought by a Chinese company as well?

 

Which formula one car is volvo associated with?

 

To be honest it took too much time to someone to buy Pirelli. The top management did many suspect moves in the past and Italy is one of the worst countries for manufacturing. If the Chinese decide to maintain research and development in Italy, than the Italians should be thankful.

 

Hummm,


Is that why lthe VAG group (AUDI-Volkswagen) bought Lamborghini and Ducati?

Or why Damler-Benz took a stake in MV Agusta recently?

Italy is a long-established industrial country that with skilled workforce and good engineering background.

 

As long as the manufacturing doesn't change I see no issues.

 

As long as they keep sponsoring Inter I'm happy
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Where did i say it was associated with?

 

But I commented on a general basis. These companies you mention, including also Ferrari, produce products for the high-end market, with high margins and few competitors. These companies represent the "1%" of the Italian excellence.

The Italian industrial output per worker is low compared to the other developed countries and continues to fall behind. Talent and skills are not enough, Italy needs to wake up.

 

I think Italy is just like the rest of the EU in that sense, apart from the UK perhaps.
Labour restrictions and production costs are imposed by the EU.

Germany itself has shifted some production to other countries: Hungary, Turkey, Slovakia, Russia,etc...
AUDI and BMW produce their cars in China for that market and don't export from Germany anymore.

 

You cannot expect in Southern Europe to work like robots as the Japanese and Koreans do.
Maybe Italy is better concentrating in niche markets, and not mass production.

For all their efficiency and extraordinary output per worker, what inspiring cars have Japan or Korea produced? But Italy has/had a cottage industry of talented stylists and designers turning up very expensive and unique cars every year thought after all over the world.

 

No, I was not even considering Japan/Korea, but Germany, France, Sweden, etc.

Yeah, totally agree that niche markets are what Italy should look at. But unfortunately it is simple not enough to "feed" a nation that now has 12,7% of total unemployment and 43% of all youngsters between 18-26 without having ever got a salaried job... :-(

 

That is equally applicable to France.

We could debate on the causes of this unemployement, but personally, I blame over protective labour laws and union militancy that dissuade employers to recruit workers.

Companies don't recruit because they cannot provide jobs FOR LIFE as the rigid system would like too; so instead of investing in Italy, they open factories abroad where labour laws are not so restrictive.

 

Agree 100%. The Italian unions think they are living in the world of the 70's.