data.3news-bydate.train.rec.motorcycles.105148 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (kevinh)
Subject: Re: Happy Easter!
Originator: kevinh@nath
Reply-To: [email protected]
Organization: Ascom Hasler AG
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In article , [email protected] (Dave Edmondson) writes:
|> Lotus looks set for a management buyout. GM weren't happy that the Elan was
|> late and too pricey. If they can write off the Elan development costs the may
|> be able to sell them for a sensible price.
I read that GM wants to keep the Design part of Lotus but lose the car
production. And, I seem to remember, that the main problem with the Elan
was caused by GM's insistence that the Elan be re-designed (significantly)
for the US market which caused major design & production headaches.
|> : : I think there is a legal clause in the RR name, regardless of who owns it
|> : : it must be a British company/owner - i.e. BA can sell the company but not
|> : : the name.
|>
|> : : [email protected]
|>
|> : I don't believe that BA have anything to do with RR. It's a seperate
|> : company from the RR Aero-Engine company.
|>
|> It's Vickers who own Rolls Royce cars.
Quite true - brain fade on my part.
|> David Edmondson [email protected]
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