Aston Martin SOLD!!!!!!!!!
02-01-2007, 06:19 PM
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Aston Martin SOLD!!!!!!!!!
02-01-2007, 08:01 PM
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It's hard to imagine them going it completely alone. A boutique maker like that usually needs the resources and borrowed components of a volume manufacturer to survive. Perhaps part of the deal is that Ford still helps them out in that area.
02-01-2007, 08:04 PM
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Pull the designer from Austin Martin aside to Jag. Have Iam make the XK look like an Austin Martin. Sell Austin Martin though really keeping it through the XK and Iam Callum. How is Louis Viton going to keep Austin Martin competitive without Iam, and pretty slick on Fords part if I got this right...
02-01-2007, 10:15 PM
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raise much needed capital?
If the article is right, they sold it for *only* 1.2 billion? What will that do compared to their losses of 12 billion? That sounds like an unnecessary sale, unless the division was losing money.