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Like I said: leave them alone.

posted by  davidm on  Sun Jun 30 04:27 CST 2002
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Ford will just make it worse. They'll turn the whole company into shared-platform compromises, like the disappointing S/V 40's. It would be truly sad to wake up one day and discover the S60 has actually become a Volvo-ized Mazda 626. What wil "Volvo" mean then?

That they've made a profit isn't due to surging sales of the new styles. Their numbers in terms of unit volume are about the same as always (especially in US). So what they're doing right is related to business practices...after Ford bought out their debt, absorbed the one-time charge, and gave Volvo's balance sheet a clean start.

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New Ford to spend $6B more on Volvo. Are you scared now?
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