[Leica] Cars: Old and new - Karmann

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Sad story about Karmann,
looks is if they may be closing down next year, most of their big 
customers (VW, Chrysler, Mercedes) have decided not to place any more 
orders and do the work on convertibles themselves.
Unless something big comes in in the way of orders, it's the end of the 
line for Karmann very soon.
Cheers
Douglas

afirkin@afirkin.com wrote:
> Love that Karmann Ghia ensignia: nice looking show area, great group of 
> images
>
> Cheers
>
> --- douglas.sharp@gmx.de wrote:
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> From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>, leicareflex@freelists.org,    
>     LEG <leica@freelists.org>
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> Subject: [Leica] Cars: Old and new
> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:31:14 +0200
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> On Saturday we travelled to the VW works in Wolfsburg to pick up our new 
> car.
> VW have built a complex called the "Autostadt", dedicated to VW Group 
> products - here a few  snaps of some of them
> Didn't manage to get a look at Bugatti, Seat, Skoda and Audi but here 
> are some of the more or less famous brands and cars.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/Autostadt/
>
> More later to show the architecture of the site - very modern, looks as 
> if Frank Lloyd-Wright and Gropius got together on it. If things had gone 
> differently, it would all be Albert Speer's work :-)
> Cheers
> Douglas
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