Re: Alfa and US safety laws

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

Not to pick nits, but I believe Renault's story was very different. 
Seems to me they were selling enough cars to be considered 
"successful" (read: profitable), but a couple of factors brought 
about the decision to pull out--their relationship with Chrysler went 
sour and an unexpected change of CEOs (read: assassination) put a 
different set of priorities in charge of the company.

At 10:53 PM +0000 9/6/02, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:58:52 EDT
> From: GLewis4457@domain.elided
> Subject: Re: Alfa and US safety laws
>
> Well, it ain't even worth that much.  We don't have Alfa in the US for a much
> simpler reason....by the time they pulled out they could not give a car away,
> let alone sell one.  I believe that in their last year in the US they sold
> something like 600 cars, maybe fewer.  Same story for Renault, Peugeot, and a
> host of others.  Do you really think that Fiat could not engineer a car to
> meet US standards if there was a market for them here?  Meeting those
> standards is not rocket science and how to do it is well known in the
> industry.  Does this mean that they are not as good engineers as Kia and
> Hyundai who meet the standards with ease?  So cut the crap about US safety
> and emission standards keeping Alfa away...only thing keeping Alfa away is a
> committment by Fiat...nothing more.
>
> Jerry in Houston
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