FORD buying majority share of Honda

And bullshit.

 

I just heard that Ford Motor Company is purchasing up to 40% of all
shares of Honda. This is not official yet, but it is in the works.
Interesting...

 

No matter how bad it gets, Ford Motor will not fail or disappear. Ford
is safe as long as the U.S. Treasury can issue loan guarantees, but it
probably won't get that bad.


they arent buying anything.

 

Ford owns a third of Toyota and Masda, all of Volvo and Jag and
others in smaller amounts so I would not be suprised if they
tried to buy Honda; however I just did a five day news search
on Google and did not see anything about it.

 

Skunkman is obviously just trolling. Pay no attention to him.

 

Sure..... just a ploy to get everyone to buy your worthless FORD stocks!




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No offence but your statement is only 50% accurate.

Ford Motor Co. does own a third of Mazda Motor Corp., but Toyota Motor
Corp. is totally independent.

 

thats news to me. GM owns half the toyota/GM NUMMI (new united motor
manufacturing international) plant in fremont, ca. thats where they
make tacomas and pontiac vibes.

 

theyre in a joint venture with GM, but thats about it. GM needs all the
help they can get. never shoulda scrapped the GEO conglomeration with
suzuki, toyota, and isuzu products.

 

Confirming what most of you are saying, Ford owns a third of Mazda, and
also bought Land Rover off of BMW. But no, they don't own any of Toyota
and arn't buying into of Honda.

 

That one third interest in Toyota is either a miss read by me or
sloppy reporting. The story I read said ford had a 33.4% in toyota,
since I can't find it today I'll have to accept it as a miss read
on my part.
The following is from Hoovers this morning:
Ford owns: 33% Masda, all of Hertz, Volvo, Jaguar and BMW's Land Rover
Suv
GM owns: Saab,Opel,Vauxhall and has interests in Subaru, Suzuki, Fiat
and Daevoo
Ernie

 

If that was his intent, bad move. Usually the stock price of the acquiring
company (the company spending the money to buy) goes down.

 

yup. all true.

 

Either 33% of Toyota or 51% of Honda are worth more than all of Ford.


Market
Capitalization
$Billion

49.3 Honda
129.0 Toyota
24.2 Ford
21.0 GM
47.1 DaimlerChrysler

Ford would be doing well just to keep their bonds from falling to junk
grade.

 

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That's where my 1986 Chevy Nova was built which is basically the same as the
Toyota Corolla. My brothers and me most have gotten into about 4 accidents
per year until the lease ended and we returned the car (All three of us got
our licensed within a few weeks of each other and a few month later, we got
the Nova). It's too bad that the dealership didn't put the car up on a hoist
before taking it back. But back then, leasing was a fairly new
concept....even for the dealerships.

Pars

 

Does that mean Honda will start selling Expeditions and Navigators -- under
a Honda badge like the Passport. Boggles the mind. Seriously doubt Honda
would contaminate itself.

 

(again)

 

Inside news, not yet public, rumours that Ford is working on a 200hp 4
cylinder engine that would go into the anemic Ford Focus and Honda
Civics. The 2006/2007 Hondas would also be built on the Focus
platform, just badged different but basically the same car.

 

No, the guys at Ford I spoke with said that they wanna launch a direct
competition to the Pontiac Vibe. It is hoping to gain more market
share by launching Civics on the Focus platform.

 

Wasn't the last rumor here that GM wanted to buy Honda. I'm
assuming these are all trolls. First, Honda has always fiercely
maintained their independence. Second, Honda's market
capitalization is bigger than that of both GM and Ford combined
(as of today, $48.2B vs $20.7B and $24.0B respectively). So, if
anything, I would think it would be Honda doing the buying ;-)