During the 2012 campaign, Gov. Romney released an ad which “accused President Obama of forcing the sale of ‘Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China’”, referring to bankrupt Chrysler’s sale to Italian Fiat.
Chrysler/Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne soon after released a statement, saying, “I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China. Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand. … It is inaccurate to suggest anything different.”
All that Romney said was that Jeeps will be built in China.
PolitiFact, a “fact-checking” source, “dubbed the Romney ad the ‘Lie of the Year’”.
Guess what Marchionne said recently, now that the election’s long over?
As part of our global expansion of the Jeep brand, there are some cars — that because of the price position in the market — can never be made in the U.S. and exported. We’re going to be announcing the first step in the globalization of Jeep [in China]. There’s another one that’s going to come in Russia. These things are part of a natural process of expansion.
Surprise!
It gets even better. Marchionne continued, “If you tell me I cannot make a [Jeep] Patriot somewhere else, I might as well go out of the market”.
Remember when Jeeps were an American military vehicle?
Instead of calling it a Patriot, why not call it a Great Communist Cultural Revolutionary?
