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He made 23.5 million Euros in 2022. This guy is at the head of a Monster of a Corporation that owns: Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS, Fiat, Fiat Professional, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Mopar, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, and Vauxhall.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wow, none of those companies have a reputation for making quality products.

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda makes sense that they fit under the same umbrella. It's a large section of what I'd call mediocre car makers. Not the absolute worst, but far from the best.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Who's worse in build quality and reliability than Chrysler, Fiat, and dodge?

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Used to be Hyundai / Kia, but they're blowing them out of the water quality, reliability and interior design wise these days.

No worse place to be than a Dodge interior.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hyundai have been making reliable cars for a very long time though, my mother has a Santa Fe with over 300k km on it.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed, I feel like Hyundai / Kia cars either shit the bed really early, or last a really long time like a Toyota. No in-between.

Case in point, my 2020 Elantra blew its engine at 7,000km. Got it replaced under warranty, doing frequent maintenance on it, going strong at 70,000 km with zero issues. It just now needed brakes!

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

70k km isn't anything to brag about though.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It's not, unless you've had issues in the first 10k km

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Ironically, Chrysler used to be one of the most reliable brands. Once upon a time.

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fair point. Most really cheap crap is long gone these days. But I'd rather sit in one of those three than a Land Rover, Ssangyong or Nissan (which has been plagued with horrible reliability issues as of late).

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Oh god, SsangYong. I had an LDV work van until recently, when it blew a head gasket at seven years old. Rusty piece of shit.

[–] Arepus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not true, Peugeot makes excellent pepper mills!

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it the same Peugeot though? Or is it more of a Lamborghini tractors type situation?

[–] debunker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Pepper mills are a separate division still owned by the Peugeot family.

[–] Urbanfox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I test drove an Alfa Romeo Giulia and it was a shambles from beginning to end.

He pulls the demo car round, and it was out of fuel, had a flat tyre, the engine management light was on, and the oil temp was sky high.

This was the demo car. The one they use to sell people on the brand.

Noped right out of there and bought German.

[–] zoe@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

careful with electric driven water pump engines from vw group

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Blame the dealer, not the car.

The Giulia is a very reliable car, actually

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The Guilia that I drove for a couple weeks was great. Sounds like that dealer was shit.

[–] OKRainbowKid@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're lame versions of Holdens mostly.

[–] JDtheGeek@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You mean Vauxhall, right? 😜

Opel, Vauxhall & Holden have mostly the same cars with different badges in different regions

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

LOL, he's responsible for 90% of the West's shitty cars?

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bless him.

The guy has made Peugeot a profitable company. This is a bona fide miracle, given how shitty the cars have become. BUT! Now they are shitty and 40% more expensive, you absolutely need to buy one.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's quite alright, I'm very happy in the Cult of Subaru.

[–] Damage 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm happy with mine but holy fuck it guzzles gasoline like it's got a hole in the tank

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Upgrade your fuel filter, air filter, spark plugs, and plug wires. The ones they stick on at the factory work, but don't provide optimal fuel consumption. Doing this, and watching my tach I got an old Forester to get around 25mpg delivering food.

[–] zoe@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

maybe make sure injectors are working properly (defective injectors have more fuel return thus higher consumption) ? or throttle body uncalibrated ? or good fuel pump motor. After changing the fuel pump motor i had a diesel mpg (60mpg) with my gasoline car (which used to be at 30, sometimes 20mpg, which was too much :/)

[–] pgp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I can vouch for this, having had a 308 van that was bleeding me dry annually through the revisions, even if they're not expensive to buy, the maintenance is ridiculously expensive.

[–] Damage 0 points 1 year ago

Eh the new 508 looks hot af tho

[–] nxfsi@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And yet your meme is right-aligned. Curious.

spoilerThe meme text alignment

[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oof, I don’t feel so good for the UAW peoples that are striking. Need more to strike and need more companies being striked. Fuck these companies that siphon money and let their workers live and die in poverty

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

Well, more than half of Stellantis factories are in Europe and have at least an half decent collective working agreement in place. I don't even want to imagine how bad the contracts for the factories they have in Asia and Africa are though.

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do not buy a jeep.... at least one made after this piece of shit company changed up all the drivetrains post 08 take over. Worst car I ever owned. Transmission failed in 2 years.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I own 4 jeeps and I endorse this comment. The youngest one I have left is an 08, the oldest is a 77.

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Compared to other CEOs, 23 million euros is a miserable salary for such an huge corporation. Maybe that's why he wants to pay less for workers.

(Not to say that he should take more, if it was for me I would cap salaries at 500k at most by law, no matter how important is your role)

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Google CEO made something like 200mil from stocks alone last year.

[–] girl4life2023@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

he can take that Jeep Dodge and Ram that chysler, citroen and Peugeot in his Opel Vauxhall. and give him a Mopar for his Maserati. and be done with it. ... sorry couldn't help my self.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The hitlist is growing, good. Now we just need to crowdsource a Hitman.

[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's because he's just the shit rod for the Agnelli family who own the largest slice of Stellantis in a holding company based in the Netherlands called Exor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exor_(company)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnelli_family