Aston Martin CEO Tobias Moers will stand down from his leadership and board roles with the firm with immediate effect, the Gaydon-based company has confirmed.
However, he will remain in an unspecified role with the company until the end of July, helping to ease the handover to his successors, ex-Ferrari duo Amedeo Felisa, who takes the role of CEO and executive director immediately, and Roberto Fedeli, who will act as chief technical officer when he joins in June.
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I think that the sober and mature Felisa, who has been responsible for some GREAT cars in the past, is a welcome addition. Both he and Fedeli also have something if a working past and familiarity with Stroll, which one should hope means that they would be less likely to upset the applecart the way Moers did for no good reason. Let's hope they resurrect that clever in-house Aston V-6 hybrid turbo that Moers scrapped early on.
It's all about the design, exterior & interior. Astons need to be beautiful, elegant, comfortable. Not trashy & tacky. Reichman must go. And Stroll trying to emulate Ferrari is doomed to failure.
Agreed with the age of the CEO. I can only see him as being a short term caretaker. I thought Walter Hayes was old when he was CEO of Aston!
Apparently the new deal they have with Mercedes allows them access to all the latest infotainment. So that's not the problem. I don't think the unions or workers are staging a revolt, not in that sense but who knows?
Stroll might now be trying to pack Aston up for sale to the VAG group now that Audi / Porsche have shown interest in F1. Stroll needs an exit at some point and having Mercedes Man around could be a problem. But that really is pure speculation.
One thing is strange is the comment that sports car production is full for the year ahead. With sales of the DBX up 60% in the report, that's 3,000+60% = 4,800. Production peaking at 6,600 means they've only got capacity to do 1,800 sports cars? That seems odd. They complained they had too much production capacity before so maybe Moers has cut it back that badly they now can't operate?
But I suspect there's a lot of fudging in the numbers. That "sales" of DBX aren't that great as most of what got produced since launch was from pre-sales. True sales for the period being exceptionally low. Even suspect the DBX707 hasn't been the hit they hoped, but some of the new styling whilst being improved some of it also looks like they employed Kahn, which isn't good either.
I just hope they sack Reichman before they run out of time. They need to find a competent designer. Even at this stage I'd wonder if Kahn is a better option? No, both would be terrible, but Ferrari are knocking it out the park at the moment with the Roma and Aston is lost.