Citroens are very rare to see in the states but always fun to spot. They’re usually vintage models. One funny part of traveling in Europe is seeing modern Citroen models.
Comedians in Cars getting Coffee had an episode with a Citroen.
In Europe these retro Citroen vans are used as mobile hipster food and coffee shops.
I also saw one retro American School bus here (very rare in Europe) selling overpriced American street food, mainly hotdogs and burgers. The retro van plus the server having a top-knot man-bun add an automatic 20% value to your burger.
Either way, it seems these old busses have found a second life in the posh mobile catering industry.
There's one like this in the lobby of the Hubert Grand Place hotel in Brussels. It's not immediately obvious how they got it in there.
Never seen any in the US (where I live), which makes sense -- https://www.citroen.co.uk/about-citroen/citroen-in-a-few-fig...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_IKEA_Holding: “Inter IKEA Holding B.V. (also known as Inter IKEA Group) is a holding company registered in the Netherlands”
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus: “Airbus' headquarters are registered in Leiden, Netherlands, but daily management is conducted from the company's main office, located in Blagnac, near Toulouse, France.”
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipton_Teas_and_Infusions: “Lipton Teas and Infusions is an American-British private company based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, that produces tea and other herbal drinks.”
It's taxes all the way.
If Stellantis were incorporated in France, apart from the higher taxes, there'd be an obvious bias towards the former PSA in France over Fiat in Italy.
Who cares about that anyway? Multinational corporations have no national allegiance anyway. They only care about profit and shareholder returns. They set up offices wherever the get the best deals, as in lowest taxes and cheapest labor.
Austria would have also been a "neutral" country in this case. Why didn't they HQ there and instead chose the NL? Let me see .. checks note .. yeah it's just the much lower corporate taxes and nothing else.
You obviously haven't considered the fact that both Italy and France are highly protective of their industries. Italy's PM was recently publicly complaining about Stellantis not putting enough of their manufacturing in Italy.
I'm sure the lowest corporate taxes in the EU have nothing to do with that.
https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_5326-Chevrolet-Heavy-Duty-COE-...