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Chart Of The Day: Europe’s C-Segment In 2013, And Why Peugeot Isn’t Coming...
Today’s chart of the day comes courtesy of JATO Dynamics and Automotive News Europe, showing last year’s C segment car sales in Europe (click to enlarge). While ANE reported the data in the context...
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PSA, Mitsubishi May End EV Partnership
PSA and Mitsubishi may discontinue their electric vehicle partnership in the next 12 months, according to PSA CEO Carlos Tavares. Speaking to a government body related to economic affairs, Tavares...
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PSA To Cut Labor Costs By Moving More Production Out Of France
PSA will consolidate their small car production at a factory in Slovakia, as the struggling auto maker looks to cut labor costs and increase margins on small cars. Reuters and Automotive News Europe...
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On This Day In History: Peugeot Withdraws From U.S. Market
On this day in 1991, Peugeot officially announced its exit from the U.S. market. In 1986, Peugeot sold roughly 14,000 cars in America. By 1990, that number had plummeted to just 4,200. PSA still...
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DS Brand Could Spearhead PSA’s American Revival
The long-awaited return of Peugeot Citroen to North America could be in the form of their new premium DS brand, but don’t get your hopes up just yet. Automotive News is reporting that the DS brand has...
View ArticlePSA, Citroen Mulling DS Launch in United States
French automaker PSA may be preparing to bring its luxury arm Citroen DS, to the United States within the next few years, Car and Driver reported. Citing a source within the company, a U.S. market...
View ArticleSmartDeviceLink Introduces ‘Target-Rich Environment’ for Car Hackers
Ford, Mazda, Toyota, Subaru, PSA (Peugeot, etc.), and Suzuki are now part of an automotive alliance concerning your dashboard. The SmartDeviceLink Consortium, as they’re styling it, is apparently all...
View ArticleWorld’s Most Desirable Vehicle is Coming to Geneva, and You Probably Can’t...
Earlier this week, Citroën released teaser images and information on the SpaceTourer 4×4 Ë Concept, which will debut at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show. And you’re going to want one. The tall, boxy van...
View ArticlePeugeot Starts Its Return to the United States Market on April 1
A report released by PSA Groupe, maker of Citroën and Peugeot vehicles, details the first part of a 10-year plan to reintroduce PSA brands into the North American market, starting in the United States...
View ArticleHindustan Ambassador Only Part of PSA’s Push in India
The Hindustan Ambassador, in production from 1958 to 2014, is an iconic vehicle. Iconic enough that news of Peugeot SA’s acquisition of the Ambassador brand from the C.K. Birla group’s Hindustan Motors...
View ArticleWaiting on a Cactus: PSA Says It Has Once Chance to Get U.S. Re-entry Right
The long-awaited return of PSA Group — French builder of Citroën, Peugeot, and DS cars — to the U.S. marketplace was never going to be a quick operation. Americans weren’t going to suddenly wake up one...
View ArticlePotential Buick Regal-based SUV Reportedly DOA, But We’ll Always Have the...
It was to be called the Monza. GM Europe expected to assemble the Opel Insignia-based SUV, roughly the size of the Ford Edge, right alongside the Opel Insignia at its Rüsselsheim, Germany, assembly...
View ArticleMore Teasing From the French: Citroën and Peugeot Cars to Be Built America-ready
For some, including TTAC’s in-house Francophile, Chris Tonn, the wait is simply unbearable. PSA Group, maker of Citroën, Peugeot and DS cars, plans to re-enter a market it hasn’t done business in since...
View ArticleZut Alors! Peugeot Outlines Plan for American Sales
At Wednesday’s Automotive News World Congress in Detroit, Peugeot SA Chief Executive Carlos Tavares said the French automaker is picking the brains of former Opel engineers to develop vehicles for...
View ArticleFrench Invasion of Georgia Underway After Groupe PSA Chooses Atlanta for...
It’s likely the vanguard of the invasion force is already on Georgia soil, probably after landing at Hartsfield-Jackson following a nice Air France flight from Aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle....
View ArticleTTAC Hot Takes: In the Wake of NAIAS, There’s No More Tie
(TTAC Hot Takes are video roundup posts which will occur whenever we can get Michael Accardi into hair and makeup. These posts are a mandate of our VerticalScope overlords, who are fascinated with the...
View ArticleWhat’s Standing Between You and a Future Citroën or Peugeot? Possibly, a Tariff
The threat of new import tariffs has PSA Group worried about its plan to return to the United States. Following President Trump’s proposal to levy a 25-percent tax on steel imports and a 10-percent...
View ArticleIf and When French Cars Return to America, Thank Canada
While French automaker PSA Group’s newly created North American headquarters resides in the warm, sunny South (Atlanta, to be exact), PSA North America CEO Larry Dominique’s mind often turns to that...
View ArticlePSA Really Wants to Get You Into a Peugeot or Citroën, but U.S. Fans Had Best...
PSA Group has a North American headquarters in Atlanta and it wants to use it. The French automaker also has a reentry plan that’s already underway. By the middle of the coming decade, we could all be...
View ArticleIt’s Decision Time for PSA’s American Return
PSA Group surely wishes it had a crystal ball. As the French automaker prepares to make a series of key decisions for its planned North American return, the future trade landscape between the United...
View ArticleFiat Chrysler, JLR, Renault, Nissan, PSA Under Possible Antitrust Investigation
The European Commission is said to be investigating several automotive companies over possible antitrust violations relating to the sale of auto parts. According to Germany’s Der Spiegel, Renault,...
View ArticleTake Two: PSA Group Confirms Peugeot’s Return to U.S.
Twenty-eight years after limping out of the U.S. marketplace, news comes of Peugeot’s impending return. While we’ve known for nearly three years that a newly invigorated PSA Group plans to slowly...
View ArticleRare Rides: A Very Brown Talbot Tagora From 1982
Today’s Rare Ride is the European luxury sedan you’ve never heard of. Plush, brown, and boxy, it’s the Talbot Tagora from 1982. The Tagora was born at a difficult time for its owner, Chrysler Europe....
View ArticleReport: No Merger, but That Doesn’t Mean PSA and Fiat Chrysler Aren’t...
Like characters on a long-running TV show, PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler remain the topic of intense speculation as to when they’ll hook up. There’s been romance in the past, including that time in 2007...
View ArticlePSA Group, Always on the Prowl, Has One Eye on Jaguar Land Rover
There’s always that one guy who says, “If you ever getting around to selling that thing, call me first.” Usually, this statement is directed at a classic car that spends more time collecting dust than...
View ArticleQOTD: Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge-Ram-Dream Fodder?
As you learned yesterday, Fiat Chrysler and France’s Groupe PSA have agreed on a merger plan, paving the way for the creation of the world’s fourth-largest automaker. FCA boss Mike Manley calls it a...
View ArticleQOTD: Failure to Launch?
On Friday, our fancy-pants Associate Ed asked what you’d like to see out of a FCA-PSA shotgun nuptial. The answers were varied as they were predictable: 208 GTI, Panda, and the like. Alert readers with...
View ArticleBrand Cull? Tavares Claims PSA-FCA Merger Won’t Lead to Bloodbath
There may still be a chance for a new Fifth Avenue. Carlos Tavares, CEO of France’s PSA Groupe and head of a future combined entity, claims the looming merger between his company and Fiat Chrysler will...
View ArticleFrench Unions Give FCA-PSA Merger a Tentative Thumbs-up
There’s a ways to go before Fiat Chrysler and France’s Groupe PSA officially slip the ring onto the other’s finger, but the engagement seems strong. Stronger, in fact, now that a majority of labor...
View ArticleFCA, PSA to Employees: Merger Deal Is Just Weeks Away
Undaunted by General Motors’ racketeering lawsuit, Fiat Chrysler and partner Groupe PSA have told employees that the tentative $50 billion merger they agreed on last month will kick off in earnest in a...
View ArticleQOTD: Alfa Romeo’s Time Come Due?
An article posted yesterday on these renowned pages really got me thinking about how certain brands seem to not have much of a future in the automotive landscape of 2020 — and beyond. If you didn’t...
View ArticleFCA’s Manley to Helm European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association
The Board of Directors of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has elected Michael “Mike” Manley, CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, as its new leader. Tapped to replace PSA Group...
View ArticleReport: Fiat Chrysler, PSA on Cusp of Binding Merger Pact
Italian-American auto giant Fiat Chrysler and French automaker PSA Group could sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Wednesday, if reports out of Europe prove true. The two automakers embarked down the...
View Article‘I Do’: Fiat Chrysler, PSA Sign Binding Merger Agreement
Regulatory and shareholder approvals will take some time, but the pending merger between Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Group is now chiseled in stone. The two automakers signed a binding combination...
View ArticlePlatform Watch: With Merger Pact, Fiat Chrysler Looks Forward to PSA...
In the binding merger agreement signed Wednesday, Fiat Chrysler and PSA Group claim platform and technology sharing will account for 40 percent of the combined entity’s annual cost savings. While the...
View ArticleQOTD: This Year’s Biggest Surprise?
This time of year is rife with year-end lists and compilations ranging from music-inspired topics to the insidious Instagram Top Nine. It’s a great tradition, one I look forward to every year. You know...
View ArticleWhat’s to Become of Chrysler?
Chrysler has certainly changed since emerging from the ashes of the Maxwell Motor Company in 1925, spending the better part of the 20th century purveying all manner of car to the American public. The...
View ArticleFCA: Merger With PSA to Be Finalized Early Next Year
The FCA-PSA merger is progressing nicely. According to Fiat Chrysler CEO Michael Manley, the joint timeline established last month is totally feasible. Both companies hoped to get this settled before...
View ArticleStatus of PSA-FCA Merger Questioned, French Half Says Everything’s Fine
Following reports from France that the merger between PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles could be upended by the coronavirus, PSA announced that the media got this one all wrong. While the French...
View ArticleFiat Chrysler-PSA Merger Heads to EU Regulators
The European Union’s antitrust regulators could easily allow the proposed $50 billion merger between Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Group to sail onward unopposed… or decide to throw a wrench into the...
View ArticlePSA-FCA Merger Doesn’t Need Any Changes: Tavares
PSA Group CEO Carlos Tavares has bucked the notion that his company’s merger agreement with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles needed its terms massaged. Living through the coronavirus should be proof enough...
View ArticlePSA PSA: Replacement Jack Stands Recalled
The Harbor Freight saga continues, with the company now issuing a recall of the jack stands meant to replace earlier jack stands recalled due to their collapse risk. After calling back its 3- and 6-ton...
View ArticleWhat Is Stellantis? Just a Massive Italian-American-French Automaker
The coming year is expected to be the first of many for a new group created through the imminent merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Group. As the process to blend the two automakers continues,...
View ArticleFCA-PSA Merger Terms Tweaked
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group announced a few revisions to their planned merger on Monday. Unfortunately, ditching the Stellantis moniker when they become the world’s fourth-largest automaker...
View ArticleEuropean Regulators Finally Approve PSA/FCA Becoming Stellantis
Fiat Chrysler and PSA Group are reportedly in the homestretch of their $38 billion merger deal and on the cusp of becoming Stellantis — the planet’s fourth largest automaker by volume. The plan is to...
View ArticleJeep Is Thrilled With 15,000 Japanese Customers
American automotive brands have never really caught on with the typical Japanese consumer. While we’ve done numerous dives trying to understand why the gist is that our tastes don’t typically overlap...
View ArticleLexus Makes a Point About Distracted Driving
Last week, Lexus launched a viral marketing campaign — that also makes for an excellent public service announcement — about how stupid it is to check your phone while driving. But it has only just...
View ArticleJeep Reportedly Working On Small BEV
Since Groupe PSA expressed an interest in buying up Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, the Jeep brand has ramped up talk about the merits of electrification – particularly in places like Europe. The...
View ArticleRare Rides: Rad Van Time With the 1998 Citroën Berlingo Calao, by Sbarro
Today’s Rare Ride started off as a standard and rather uninteresting Citroën Berlingo van, and was then thoroughly edited by Sbarro into a windsurfing-oriented beach vehicle. It’s a lot to process,...
View ArticleRare Rides: The Wallyscar Brand, From Tunisia With Pride
Today’s topic is an automaker you’ve likely never heard of. It’s a small company that was founded not that long ago, offers vehicles in very limited markets, and produces around 600 vehicles per year....
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