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Fiat
and Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the car manufacturer Fiat and Peter Shullot about
climate change. The letters in full are at the bottom of the page. This is one
of 65 sets of letters so you can find out what your supermarket, energy supplier
and car manufacturer, and oil companies, airlines, house builders and other
companies really think about climate change. The name Peter Shullot is
made up – it is an anagram of The Polluters.
Fiat also owns Alfa Romeo
To
Giulio Salomone, Managing Director –
I have driven your
cars all my life. At present it’s the
Fiat Croma. I
like its space, its smoothness and that it has lots of buttons to fiddle around
with. It’s a great family car that I sometimes even let my family get in and
enjoy as well.
I may make my next car the Alfa Romeo Spider that I see you also make. The
advert for it is excellent.
Hitting your first six;
Australia 17 England 20; Fatboy Slim, Brighton ’03; Driving the New Spider.
Excellent. With a big red car coming towards you, I added, Having your first
f***. Of course advertising has no effect on me; it just looks a great car.
I see
that you are developing a green car, the Panda Panda. Last
year What Car asked car makers what they are doing about carbon emissions, and
you said that your
latest
developments include gas-powered engines and prototype hydrogen vehicles. So you
are developing some things. Good one – keep that one up for the next ten years
and hopefully no-one should notice that you haven’t actually done anything.
After all if you actually produced something then what would it say about your
existing cars? Would they all run on cow dung as well? If so, I would have to
take my business elsewhere.
Fiat replied –
Firstly we would like to recognise your positive opinion of the Fiat Croma and
thank you for supporting us in terms of its overall design, performance and
accessibility.
We appreciate your thoughts and understand the current guidelines to improve the
environment and I would like to advise that the Panda Panda will eventually be
available to buy however, for the foreseeable future only in Italy.
Letter to Fiat
Reply from Fiat
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