A conversation with Bob Nardelli - charlierose.com
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September 17th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
http://eideard.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/chrysler-pushing-ram-in-market-cold-to-trucks/
“Chrysler pushes Ram into cold truck market”
That’s the provocative view of this blogger.
Check the link to the Ram ad here.
September 17th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
It’s a sinking ship. A death by a thousand cuts. Time to move on…
September 18th, 2008 at 12:32 am
I give chrysler a year tops!
You people related to chrysler better find new work soon!
RIP…..
September 18th, 2008 at 8:01 am
A year eh?
You don’t know your ass from your elbow.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Great interview. I enjoyed listening to it.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
For all you “anon’s” please see how Mr. Nardelli (and Press) feel about the dealers today!
If the dealers go away then MoPar goes away.
The factory can’t sell cars, take trades, and service cars.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Oh Sh#%!
Nardelli said “Plymouth”
I hope Oscar is not listening!
September 18th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
All you guys are really funny and amusing. Who knows what will happen to chrysler, but i guarantee you that chrysler is in way better hands now that cerberus is in control.Hopefully in time everything will work out for chrysler.The loan by the government will be a HUGE win also!
Chrysler plans electric car production model………………
‘Leccy Tech Chrysler look set to follow General Motors and put its own electric car into production in 2010 based on the four-door ecoVoyager concept it showed off earlier this year.
At the time, Chrysler claimed the entirely electric ecoVoyager will have a range of 300 miles. Put that in your Volt and smoke it, GM.
To be fair to GM, its Chevy Volt, which can travel 40 miles on a battery charge, was this week being touted as a model that’s ready for production, whereas Chrysler has simply talking concepts so far.
It’s thinking is expressed in the four-seater ecoVoyager, which, like the Volt, has an entirely electric powertrain. The battery will be a lithium-ion job, but Chrysler also has the notion it’ll fit a hydrogen fuel cell too, to pick up the work when the battery’s flat, and it’s that that allows it to claim a 300 mile range.
This model, along with two others, will be hawked around US dealers over the next month or so, AutoExpress magazine claims. They get to chose which model will be put into production in the 2010-2012 timeframe.
One of the models, the paper says, drops the ecoVoyager’s fuel cell in favour of a petrol-powered generator that kicks in to feed the electric engine with volts when the battery drops below a certain point. This is the same approach taken by the Volt.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
The new dodge ram will have 2 new engine options next year, and a hybrid option in 2010.
Give it time boysssssssssss
September 18th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
It isnt even funny how much potential chrysler has.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:41 am
MoPar Dealer is right the dealer body hasn’t felt the love from Nardelli or Press.
During these tough economic times you’d think Chrysler would hold the line when it comes to adding to the overhead of it’s dealers, but no it is full steam ahead lets see how quickly we can put the remainder of our dealers out of business.
Our flooring costs are going up 30% or more in October, Chrysler is now billing us more for software, they are making us pay to go to dealer meetings, the 4th quarter special tools cost is outrages, Chrysler Financial has tightened up on credit so you can’t get a car financed.
MoPar is right, the dealer body isn’t going to be around when all these new products hit and god for bid if Chrysler trys to run it’s own factory stores, the independs will eat’em alive.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:02 am
I agree with Anonymous–this interview and that of Tom Lasorda recently tells me a lot about these guys. I wish they had taken over C a few years earlier. Smart. Practical. Customer focused. I love these guys>
September 19th, 2008 at 8:10 am
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122177751102554321.html
Chrylser to Show Dealers Electric Car
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 19
Rich, Mopar Dealer.
All the gang here expects you two gentlemen to be in your seats at the movie theater, eating popcorn and paying attention. We then expect a full review from you here. Thing we want to know are source of batteries? Number of passenger seats? Weight? Zero to 60? You guys know the drill.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Absolutely Anonymous.
As much mouth running as Mopar Dealer and Rich do around here, right or wrong, they better sit back and watch carefully with open eyes, open ears, and an open mind.
WE EXPECT A FULL UNBIASED REPORT ON WHAT IS GOING ON FROM YOU GUYS!!!
Don’t let us down.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I hear that Chrysler is using 2000 D cell batteries in it’s soon to be released electric car.
And what gives you shmucks are always running MoPar and I under the bus; Saying we aren’t Chrysler Dealers, that we are angry lot porters.
We aren’t your whores, you’d better show a little love for MoPar and I if you want to get the goods and future product.
Pimp Daddy Rich OUT!
September 19th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I’m not always right of course but I will always report what I think.
I like the new management team and think that they have taken huge steps into turning this thing around, and I believe they can and will do it.
Our stores have floorplanned with CFC for 30+ years.
My father, grandfather, and uncle all worked for Chrysler, my grandfather worked with the Dodge Brothers.
Having said all that Chrysler is far from perfect, has amongst the worse factory to dealer relations in the industry, still makes both suspect and GREAT product.
It’s advertising and “Tri-Brand” strategy is a mess.
I’m excited about the possibility of a GE-Chrysler electric vehicle, but I am more excited about Project D.
We need a world class mid-size, fuel-efficient vehicle so badly.
Do you think Project D could mean Project Dodge Car?
September 19th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Mopar Dealer,
Your views and your hopeful attitude and cautious optimism about the new management are very much in keeping with mine. Like you, it appears to me that the management team that Cerberus installed has not been afraid of taking the kind of drastic and painful action necessary for the survival of the company in these rapidly changing times. If my reading of what you wrote is correct, I may have just a little bit more of the Missouri attitude in my makeup than you do. (Missouri attitude = “Show me! No more BS! Just show me the results and the future product plan.”). Also, your emphasis on the importance of the Project D replacement for Sebring/Avenger is proof positive in my book that you are solidly grounded in the economics of the automotive industry. That’s the segment where Chrysler is going to have to make its profit in the future—on high volume mid-sized vehicles that are of such high quality and so well-engineered that they sell at MSRP. Face it, full-sized pickups and SUVs probably will never against sell in the same high volume as in past years, and thus they won’t be the same big profit centers. Since there’s no way anyone can make a whole lot of money off of small cars,, even in high volume, Chrysler has to sell a vehicle than competes well with Camry and Accord. If Auburn HIlls can do that, it can dig its way out of this whole and get the company back to decent profitability. It requires nothing less than products at Sterling Heights and Jefferson North that churn-out on three shifts vehicles that are in such high demand that they sell at MSRP.
We’re counting on you and Rich to resist the natural temptation to make up the losses you are now suffering in these hard times by jacking up the price above MSRP on those new D-Class vehicles and whatever in the hell it is that will be coming out of Jefferson North, presumably a lighter and more economical Grand Cherokee and a another mid-sized vehicle on that same platform.
Secondly, my apologies to everyone, especially the many people who sign as “Anonymous”. because I was the one who posted that article from Friday’s Wall Street Journal about the electric car in Chrysler’s future, not Anonymous. That same kind of substitution happened before on one of my postings several months ago, too. I bitched about it in an email to to Site Admin and he explained that when you do not properly fill out your name and email said that when there is an error or omission in the name or email address on a posting, his program automatically designates it as coming from Anonymous.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/uptospeed/2008/09/chrysler-elec-1.html
Here’s the Los Angeles Times article on Chrysler’s electric vehicle. It’s worth a read.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I think we are dealing with on the job training with the new management team at Chrysler; the only problem is that after a year they still haven’t figured out how to run the company.
Chrysler is never going to make any head way until they stop alienating the people who represent their product.
The fundamental problem here folks is we are reliving the Home Depot experience.
Mr. Nardelli totally alienated the store managers at Home Depot and created an environment that was unacceptable that finally cost him his job.
The same thing is happening now, show your hand picked 18 dealers on the Chrysler dealer council a good time then asked them to sign a prepared statement that is supposed to represent the Chrysler dealer body as a whole, PLEASE.
Chrysler can’t even hang on to its mid level managerial talent; they are fleeing the company in droves.
DaveS
Resist the temptation to jack up the price on the new product to make up for our losses?
You know DaveS MSRP; Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price is what it implies: A suggested price set by the manufacturer
The last I read I don’t think it is a crime to ask over MSRP for a new vehicle, it is no different then 7 Eleven wanting $1.50 for a Mars Bar when the local supermarket sells it for 99 cents.
You either choose to pay the premium or not, nobody is forcing you to pay the premium.
I live my life by old sayings one of my favorites are a fool and his money are soon parted. If a fool wants to come in and hand me his money I’m going to take it, because if I don’t he’s going to spend it some where else and then that makes me the fool.
It is a for profit business, I don’t understand why this is such a foreign concept to so many of you. It is obvious that most of you haven’t put it all on the line to achieve your dreams.
You put in your 40 hours a week counting down to retirement. WOW that is living!
September 19th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Since day one Jim Press and Bob Nardelli have been the masters of hype with no results.
They over hyped the Journey, New Day Promotion, 2.99 Gas Promotion and now Shop Till You Drive all flops.
The TV advertising is like watching paint dry, boring.
And best of all for you gear heads out their we have no car in the Nascar Chase for the cup, NO DODGE IN THE CHASE FOR THE CUP!
Millions of hard core racing fans watching NASCAR racing and we have no Dodges that have a chance to win the cup.
Toyotas in it’s second season of cup racing has 3 cars racing for the cup.
There goes Kasey Kahne in has Dodge UAW sponsored Avenger that isn’t qualifed to race for the cup, Good Work Guys!
September 20th, 2008 at 12:24 am
If i talked down on my products the way dave and rich do on theirs, then i shouldnt even be trying to sell my product.It s funny out of 3800 dealers that only rich and dave are the ones only bithing and complaining about the product they so call claim to be selling.Thats why i dont believe one word out of either of they mouths.The new management team is doing their best to improve product and quality of all chrysler products.it will take ample time before they get situated
You so called dealers need to take more time concentrating on your dealer than posting your nonsense here