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Six weeks have passed, then it is time for the update number of the car 14 Things move quickly in the world of cars and most of the action seems lately to occur through Atlantic German manufacturers are involved in their own battle of the bulge and in this case the bulge is their bank accounts bulging BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz buying strong and weak auto manufacturers in the world and things go there so fast that you have to keep a score card to keep on top of who does what and to whom are the latest developments in the Teutonic Car Wars.
ROLL-ROYCE BENTLEY TO SPLIT - In 1933, the Bentley british Motors financial difficulty was acquired by the most creditworthy company Rolls-Royce and the famous Le Mans winner 20s became one slightly cheaper version of what Rolls produced the time now the British twins will be divided in 2002 after a union that lasted nearly 70 years each coupling with a new companion, and in both cases, the other party will be German no doubt you've been following the battle call to tender for the property of Rolls between Volkswagen VW and BMW won the knockdown-dragout competition by tender of 785 million for Rolls lock stock and barrel and included Bentley But BMW currently supplies engines to V8 and Rolls said bluntly that if a company other than himself won the war bidding, supplying engines would stop immediately rather than face the perspecti ve having to hustle create an engine for the current model of Rolls, VW used the name over to BMW for 66 milli on, and continue to make the RR Silver Seraph and its companion, the Bentley Arnage, BMW for a period of four years after 2002, VW will provide incomplete body in a Rolls BMW plant yet to be built in England after that VW itself to produce and market an ultra-luxury car brand new and bear the name Bentley.
ROLLS-ROYCE BOSS TAKES A WALK - More than a little annoyed by the fact that the division mentioned above of the booty took place without his knowledge much less consent, the head Rolls-Royce Graham Morris man threw his keys Executive bathroom on the desk of the boss Ferdinand Piech and VW hit the bricks Seems Morris was assured his guys on the line RR Rolls that production would stay where it is, but was later told that he would go BMW to another British city without name instead must back on his word, Morris hit its colors and moves on very British way Piech s rational for the Rolls Bentley division was that it wasn t interested in getting involved VW in a long legal battle with BMW on who said what to whom on behalf of RR and pass the 66 million it receives from BMW to develop new products at one time, it was suggested that the name Horch would be resurrected to become a super-luxo, but this idea was abandoned What a relief this way, Mo RRI wouldn t have had to face the ignominy of having to produce a German automobile brand-transportation trade where Rolls-Royce was once powerful king.
RETURN OF RILEY - The amount of money that German companies are ready to launch around British brands is amazing to me his recent feeding frenzy on the acquisition of Rolls-Royce, BMW, in recent memory , bought the Rover group, which includes Land Rover and soon to be-resurrected Mini as the Mini Cooper in the early 60s lovers of British cars will recall that the British mergers of the past four decades have enabled the Rover group ownership MG, Morris, Wolseley, Triumph, Austin Riley reports we plates got our British associates report that Bernard Pischetsrieder, current president of BMW and admirer long his group gave Rover a year to develop Riley a car things Anglo history that rival Jaguar coupe as high-speed passenger, luxury, British-built Apr Bachelor of being a British car mechanic in the days when Riley was imported to the ICU can only hope that the new BMW Riley is proposed pe rformance-oriented that overweight sedans and convertibles underpowered I worked in the 50s Pischetsrieder Why doesn t just buy Jaguar or even ultra-high performance British Aston Martin Ford Too late already has these two venerable British companies.
VOLVO persevere - it also with great interest that we found that Volkswagen has made recent buyout advances to Volvo, this staid producer of VW virtually bulletproof Swedish cars has already invested heavily in Czechoslovak Skoda it s for you to search for historians and is the current owner of the exotic Lamborghini to purchase Volvo would be another jewel in the crown But VW Tuve Johannesson, president of Volvo refused the advances of his German neighbor and said that Volvo is well how it is that statement probably means that the two will merge in the next two years.
Come back in six weeks and we will review what happened during this time Who knows, in the crazy world of automobile manufacturing, maybe Ford and General Motors will merge.
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