After 4 1/2 months and 2000 miles, I am truly enjoying my 2016 Jetta SE 1.4T. Quiet, comfortable, more sporty than my previous Elantra GT (which, truthfully, isn't saying much), and the right level of tech.
Yeah, the outside is boring, but, given that sedans are declining in popularity, I'm going against the grain. The inside is quite nice.
Fighting for #1 in sales just tends to land a company toward reduced profit margins and increased media surveillance. Doesn't tend to bring prestige, rather mass market view. Don't understand this goal at all?
While top line growth matters, most stockholders and investors are more focused on bottom line. Personally, I think it mostly emanates from past practices.
This presumes that most stockholders know what they are doing, a premise which I still find dubious at times. Investing has this very gut level, emotional element to it that financial professionals seem reluctant to admit to.
Now that VW is number One in the World, is there any good reason to take over Fiat? I can think of several. VW is better at whacking models that don't sell well. They could trim the Jeep line to maybe 3 best selling models. Keep Dodge for vans, mini vans and Ram PU trucks. Dump the Fiat line in the US, it sells best in Italy, Brazil and 3rd World countries. Chrysler does not seem to have anything people want. Looking at the VW financials I would say even after dieselgate they will have a very large cash pile. Fiat is hurting for cash. Call it a merger then kick out all the dead weight management. Something Germans are good at doing. And bring back diesels across all the lines.
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Yeah, the outside is boring, but, given that sedans are declining in popularity, I'm going against the grain. The inside is quite nice.
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