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

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Subject: [Leica] Cars: Old and new - Karmann
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Mon Oct 22 08:24:30 2007
References: <20071021180914.BA628D33@resin11.mta.everyone.net><471C5786.6070908@gmx.de> <200710220821.l9M8LenQ099409@server1.waverley.reid.org>

Nah, Ford owns Ghia - if you were thinking about Karmann-Ghia?
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Cars: Old and new - Karmann


> 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
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
>
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