Re: Non-Scirocco Ford & Volvo Merger

[Greg <fren0027@tc.umn.edu>]

At least hopefully they'll let it alone and only bank roll the
company.   I've heard from many sources that ford buying Rolls was
supposedto be the best thing that ever happend to Rolls Royce.

Ian wrote:

> This was all over the news this morning. Ford bought the car
> production side
> of Volvo for about $6.8billion. Volvo (the parent company) still owns
> the
> heavy duty truck division and can use the name for those trucks.
>
> Basically I think it sucks, I mean Volvo, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Rolls
> Royce,
> Saab, plus countless others, when will it end?
>
> It's not even like Volvo was doing badly, at the Philly auto show they
> had
> an S40 slated for fall'99 release, in the mid $20's price range,
> looked
> pretty nice.
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo [mailto:majord@neubayern.net]On Behalf Of Kris Rayner
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 6:32 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Non-Scirocco Ford & Volvo Merger
>
> Where did you here this?  Remember we heard a rumor earlier that
> VW was going to buy Volvo, but that's all it ended up being.  Volvo
> is on an upswing right now, expecially with the C70's and now thier
> luxury S80.  Twin turbo charged in line 6...;)
>
> Date sent:              Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:06:39 -0800
> From:                   T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>
> Organization:           sometimes
> To:                     scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject:                Non-Scirocco Ford & Volvo Merger
>
> > Just heard that Ford ( of all 'people' ) would be buying Volvo's
> auto
> > manufacturing.
> >
> > Wha!?!
> >
> > When will it all end? Soon there will be just one company, and we
> will
> > get all our products and goods from Microsoft.
> >
> > TBerk
> >
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