FORD buying majority share of Honda

What are you smoking?

 

And (just to put the final nail in the coffin), the last part of a car
that Honda would out source would be the engine.

If these rumors have any basis in fact, it would be Ford buying Honda
engines to put in the Focus, just like GM is buying Honda engines for
the Saturn Vue. Ford would probably love to rebadge Civics as Foci,
but I am skeptical that Honda would go for that.

 

riiight. not even close on the trollometer. fords blown so much cash
they couldnt buy a cuppa coffee.

 

honda wouldnt want em.

 

Yeah, interesting that 40% is now a majority. Must be that new troll math.

WW

 

And what do VW/Audi own?

Mercedes?

BMW?


Heck, they are likely as not soon to be all one company, eh?


TBerk

 

Ford also owns Range Rover, Aston Martin (basically all the cars
displayed in the last James Bond are Ford products.)

BMW sold Land Rover, Range Rover and Jaguar the Ford Motor Company (for
10 pound sterling) when they got rid of the Rover Group. The current
Range Rover is a BMW design, the new Disco is a Ford product.)

Ford owns brand as Ford, Lincoln, Continental

The VAG group owns VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda. Audi owns Lamborghini.

Mercedes is a brand of the DaimlerChrysler Group.

BMW is ows by the Quandt family. When they sold off their assets in the
Rover Group, they kept Mini, which they rebranded MINI (all caps.)
Ironically, BMW needed their archrival's 1.6 engine from the Neon to put
it in the MINI.

Not likely. Peugeot is still family owned and Renault owns Nissan (the
textbook example of what a good merger should be, as opposed to
DaimlerChrysler's,) and TVR has been bought by a 25-yr Russian
billionaire for 25 million pound sterling.

Alex

 

[snip]

And GM is paying $1.5B not to buy Fiat.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=580&e=1&u=/nm/20050213/bs_nm/autos_fiat_dc

My rule of thumb is that any merger will be bad for both companies in
the long run.

 

VAG also owns Bentley and Bugatti.

 

Ford does not own any of Toyota. They do own a controlling interest in
Mazda and all of Volvo and Jaguar as you said.

John