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- From: gcagle@dracula.mentorg.com (Greg Cagle)
- Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.180217.5010@news.mentorg.com>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:02:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.160749.1763@island.COM>, fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
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- >Well, Ford DOES own 30% of Mazda. And the only thing that GM US buys from
- >Japanese in large amounts is engines for its Geo series. GM owns 37% of
- >Isuzu, and Isuzu asked GM to take it over entirely. GM refused, so Isuzu
- >is now out of the car market, and GM is out of engines for about 2 years.
- >Also, Ford and GM own several foreign companies. Ford owns Jaguar, and GM
- >owns Opel (I also read about 4 months ago that GM owns SAAB; however, I have
- >not been able to confirm that, so use that factoid with caution).
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- GM has owned Opel for a long time, and recently bought Saab and Lotus.
- Note also that Chrysler owns a chunk of Mitsubishi and all of Lamborghini.
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- - Greg
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