BMW planning takeover bid for Volvo!! & greenie issues

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/225528/
related articles
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/industry/bmw-considered-v olvo-takeover/
http://www.egmcartech.com/2007/05/09/bmw-seriously-consideri ng-taking-over-volvo/

o mi gawd, now every second thread will be about volvo.

thepits wrote: dryle wrote: o mi gawd, now every second thread will be about volvo. no about BovlMoWv

is this a new language try saying it.

thepits wrote: You do realise that if this happens your favourite car would always be a BMW   p.s. - not another MiNi - aren't two enough already?

I don't care, I will be glad if it goes ahead! Ford are butchering Volvo as we speak.


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Dergside wrote: Key point from the Autocar link is that it is phrased in the past tense.....  thankfully....

Well as I said, it would be good for both brands. BMW need a platform to base the next MINI on so it would make sense to buy Volvo or Alfa Romeo. Methinks they are going to buy Volvo because of Ford's financial trouble they won't be too reluctant to let it go.

Nigel wrote: And if ever a brand needed to be butchered....its ovlov, closely followed by saab !

SAAB is an even worse case scenario, they aren't even making money and both the 9-3 and 9-5 are deeply flawed cars.

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Nigel wrote:   And if ever a brand needed to be butchered....its ovlov, closely followed by saab !

To me Saab don't exist any more - it's just another General Motors company. Proper Saab's were built by aircraft engineers, IIRC the original 900 was designed in a wind tunnel by a group of aircraft guys without a driving license between them - probably why they have a distinctive back end. Like Volvo, they were also built like tanks (my dad has had a 96, a 99L, a 900GLs, 900i and now a 900i 16v - tried to persuade him to get a turbo or a Carlson but turbos might be expensive to repair and Carslons are too low for country pot holes and hard to come by even though I saw one for sale for under �3K)

And Volvo, eh? Just when they are starting to look like proper cars, not just boxes on wheels


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But the reports are also saying that they may be reluctant to takeover as they got their fingers burned. as they say once bitten twice shy

Rhys wrote: dryle wrote: But the reports are also saying that they may be reluctant to takeover as they got their fingers burned. as they say once bitten twice shy Rover?

spot on there

taken from motoring authority

However, BMW would be treading very cautiously. Seven years ago it suffered the embarrassment of massive financial losses when its venture with the Rover Group fell though in 1994, a mistake it can�t afford to repeat.

ok it doesnt say reluctant, but if something like that happened to you then you you be willing for something like that to happen to you again. i would.

BMW would be better off going after Nanjing Automotive. They'd get their hands back on the 75! A real coup.