Chrylser’s U.S. plants are working flat-out, and reopening closed plants is not an option, Fiat & Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne tells the Milan daily Corriere della Sera in a wide-ranging interview. Plants and workers in other countries, such as Mexico, Canada or Europe will have to fill a third of the U.S. demand for Chryslers. Marchionne thinks that “demand for cars in Europe will remain low for long. At least until 2014.” He counts on increasing U.S. demand for made-in-Italy Chryslers to keep his Italian plants open. If that demand should slacken, then …
“Then we should withdraw from two of our five sites in Italy,” Marchionne says.
“What???” asks an aghast interviewer.
Marchionne reminds him of Sophie’s choice. In the movie, Sophie was forced to decide which of her two children was to be sent to the Auschwitz gas chamber. She chose her son to live, and her daughter to die.
According to Marchionne, Sophie had to spend the rest of her life with the nightmares of that decision.
Actually, in the movie, she committed suicide.