Fiat Chrysler raises outlook as Q2 profits jump 25 percent
Adjusted earnings before interest and taxes rose to 1.63 billion euros ($1.79 billion) from 1.4 billion euros a year ago, the Italian-American carmaker said in a statement on Wednesday.
Facing federal probes over its reporting of USA vehicle sales, Fiat Chrysler on Tuesday announced revised numbers showing its previously-touted six-year streak of monthly gains actually ended three years ago.
For now, it's also unknown from where down the chain of command come the inflated sales figures, but it's already being reported that investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice have been visiting FCA's nine regional business centers, interviewing both former and current employees. Applying the new method retroactively to the start of 2011 shows the company overstated sales for 30 months, including three in which it would have reported a sales decline. This is a drop the from €28.54 billion that it reported in the second quarter of 2015. As a member of said automotive press, we at The Drive appreciate it.
Eriksson: Allardyce the right man for England
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The carmaker said its revised reporting process would yield the "best available estimate of the number of FCA US vehicles sold to end users through the end of a particular month". Now the company will subtract sales "unwinds" when it finds out the deal has fallen through. But industry insiders say the numbers are often manipulated by both dealers and the companies. Dealers will try to make those numbers because doing so often can mean a difference of hundreds of thousands in revenue. Later they are sold as used cars.
The company's new method for the monthly U.S. deliveries no longer includes a "reserve" number that historically has been included in the figure for fleet and other retail sales and also will account for "unwound" transactions in which a vehicle is returned, according to a statement. "There's nothing new about this", said Sandler, adding that all automakers do it.
A lawsuit by an IL dealership group alleges that competing dealers got incentives to report false sales.
Reserve Bank presages cut
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The Napleton dealership group contends that an FCA executive offered Napleton $20,000 to falsely report sales of 40 new vehicles. FCA wouldn't say when it would reopen, but until it does, the company's Warren, Michigan, truck plant will keep making Rams.
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Delta Airlines flight lands at Air Force base by mistake
Delta said it has contacted the 130 passengers on board and has 'offered a gesture of apology for the inconvenience'. After realizing the error and coordinating with officials, the flight re-departed for Rapid City on Thursday night.
