Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/22

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Subject: [Leica] Cars: Old and new - Karmann
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Mon Oct 22 06:25:31 2007
References: <20071021180914.BA628D33@resin11.mta.everyone.net> <471C5786.6070908@gmx.de>
 
At 03:55 AM 10/22/2007, Douglas Sharp wrote:
 >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.

Have I missed something?  I thought Karmann was 
owned by Ford.  Ford is now on the ropes.  So why 
not dumpt Karmann cheap?  Hey, guys, let's buy it!

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
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