Being new in the market, is certainly very important. And we expect both Polo and Fiesta to increase sales quite significantly. |
I think the issues at Chrysler go very deep. The real problem is a failure to anticipate a change in the environment in the United States in the light-truck market. |
In the past, there was little in the way of true competition from Japanese manufacturers, who made a lot of missteps and missed opportunity in early 1990s. They've put pressure on the core truck market and Chrysler, with the biggest exposure to light trucks, has been hardest hit. |
It's doesn't hurt to speculate on bringing it to the U.S. market, but I don't think there's a chance they'll do it. I would put it in the failure camp. Commercially, financially, its didn't fulfill the hopes the company has had for it. |
On cars they were always going to be small and always stand a chance of being buffeted by the larger players. |
Probably the success of Audi and Mercedes with small offerings has given them pause for thought. |
There's a large number of U.S. institutions who only buy S&P 500 stocks. |
We have moved to expectations of a loss of 100 million euros for the fourth quarter of this year from Chrysler, whereas we had previously been expecting a small profit. |