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General Ford Not Happening
The Daily Auto Insider
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
September 2006
General Motors and Ford briefly discussed the concept of an alliance but have dropped the idea and plan no further talks, reported Automotive News, an industry trade publication.
The Detroit automaker's chief financial officers, Frederick "Fritz" Henderson of GM and Don Leclair of Ford, met recently and discussed the idea of collaboration, Automotive News said.
GM and Ford are both trying to turn around their auto operations after massive losses in North America.
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Good.
It's bad enough that both companies have absolutely NO continuity between any of their cars...could you imagine if they merged :rolleyes:
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companies talk about this sort of stuff all the time... usually it never makes the news...
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GM...merger with GM Europe and Australia (Vaxhaull, Holden, etc), and then you'll have GREAT cars. Cars like the Monero, Commodore, Vectra, Astra, etc.
Ford...merger with Ford Europe, and Australia too. Give us your Feistas, Focus MkII's, Falcon XR8's, Pursuits, etc.
The cars overseas look great, are very stylish/modern/rich looking inside, have ridiculously powerfull engines in the upscale models, and you could just have them built overseas and shipped here, until retooling or whatever else is needed to be done here.
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09-20-2006, 03:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-20-2006, 03:17 PM by D-Dub.)
the Holden monero is a GTO in North America
Which will now be discontinued
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The GTO is one hell of a sleeper car ... with a 6.0L v8 it'll smoke the tires pretty easily
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I already know the GTO/Monaro was discontinued already, but I know that there is the idea of Pontiac bringing over the Commodore to be the next G8.
Anyways, here's some links of what Australia and England get from GM and Ford cars...
Enjoy...
For GM Fans:
http://www.holden.com.au/www-holden/jsp/ho...ge/homepage.jsp
http://www.hsv.com.au/index_eseries.asp
http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vx/home.do
http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vx/vxr/flash/index.html
For the Ford Fans:
http://www.ford.co.uk/
http://www.ford.com.au/
http://www.fpv.com.au/index.aspx
I think a lot of the STOCK models of a lot of those brands are awesome, even without looking at the performance versions...
Ford and GM should leave only the Trucks as being uniquely designed and built in NA, along with the Mustang, Corvette, and some Cadillac and Lincoln cars, and then just use the vehicles from the other countries for other classes....
Have the same vehicles everywhere...
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