Chrysler has been purchased by Cerebus. By all accounts, it appears to be a good thing. Time will tell. Paul On Jul 6, 2007, at 8:25 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> From: > J >> Please tell me when FORD bought CHRYSLER..Did I miss this. Yes Ford >> does own Jaguar..Joe >> >> At 07:40 PM 7/5/07, you wrote: >> Regardless of Rob and Tom's comments, this happens all the time. >> Jaguar and Chrysler are owned by Ford and BMW. >> You can call them 'essentially brand names' of the parent, >> or subsidiaries, or whatever you need. >> The amount of their ultimate independence is to be determined. >> Only sure thing is, >> the Bean Counters will decide who gets the capital for new projects. >> Regards, Bob S. > > He said "Jaguar and Chrysler are owned by Ford *and* BMW. > > Although that's wrong; Chrysler is owned by DaimlerChrysler AG, not > BMW > ... at least until Daimler can find some venture capital suckers to > unload it on. > > BMW used to own Rover, until they sold it to Ford. (MG ended up being > spun off to venture capitalists in the deal and eventually got sold to > the Chinese). > > FWIW, if I remember correctly, Ford has recently announced Jaguar > is up > for sale too. > > Wonder what the Chinese are going to do with MG? > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
