DETROIT – The consolidation in the auto industry is “inevitable.” But for now Fca slips. The priority is the plan to 2018 and “have obsessive emphasis on the achievement of the numbers, in order to bring security to the company even when I’m not there.” And in order to “take off those Renzi called the owls.” Sergio Marchionne at the Detroit Auto Show confirmed the financial targets for the group, closer after ‘”exceptional” 2015, and reached by lower than expected sales volumes, and says: “I will not let a food that can not be used by my successor. ” And a ‘kitchen in order’ has a zero debt and a net profit of 5 billion euro, as foreseen in the business plan. Of those who happen ‘driving, Marchionne sees a “number” of possible successors. And jokes about his possible future as a journalist. Next to John Elkann, he let go the idea of a newspaper the ‘Daily John and Sergio’. A newspaper “paper” precise Elkann. Shelved the project partnership with General Motors, on which there are no prospects, and looking to the Silicon Valley, Marchionne brakes on finding a partner for the group. Consolidation – highlights – is for “us” the second priority after the 2018 plan, the “we have abandoned for now.” “The 2018 target is feasible. The plan is not easy but feasible” after a year better than expected, with the results at the high end of the guidance. Implementation of the plan is the “priority ”.
Do not shut the gate, to Silicon Valley,” and stand against ‘idiocy. We continue to work with all of them “, with Google and others. “It ‘must remain open to technological development,” Marchionne added, stating that’ ‘all are prophecies “about how it will change the auto industry, which is facing a” wandering in the desert’ ‘that will take her to choose “What does he want to become great.” Marchionne says more optimistic on Europe and looks to the United States, where the launch of the Alfa Romeo Giulia has slipped to the third quarter. The US remains the most important market for Ferrari, for which Marchionne does not rule out an increase in production to 9,000 units if the conditions are right, while keeping the idea of Enzo Ferrari: it must always produce a less than it wants market. “We are happy that we share in Ferrari. We can increase it but we never said that we would have increased”, highlights Elkann. “Speaking of the reaction of Ferrari on the stock market when there was the separation in January, and the distribution of capital and ‘idiots’, highlights Marchionne.
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