Doom drought

[Mich the Tester]

Does anyone really think Fiat have the money to buy the British car industry. They must be getting the money from somewhere

They passed a hat round at the factory and raised 700 euros. More than enough. 600 euros for a round trip to London on the train for Signor Marchionne, 99 euros for lunch and 1 euro for the British car industry.

[Mich the Tester]

Lots of happy jolly stuff on the front page of the FT today; http://www.ft.com/home/europe

[sasguru]

Does anyone really think Fiat have the money to buy the British car industry. They must be getting the money from somewhere

These people are not silly enough to take Fiat shares are they

You clearly know nothing about cars.

1. Fiat have had runaway successes with the new Fiat Punto and 500 models and are flush with cash.

2. There is no such thing as the British car industry - just foriegn companies who build in Britain.

HTH

[Menelaus]

“It is too early to assume the swine flu outbreak is a mild infection just because no-one in the UK has died, England's chief medical officer says.”

That’s a bit like saying ‘it’s too early to assume Putin hasn’t fired a nuclear weapon at us because it’ll take ten minutes for it to get here’. Just pointless speculation. I thought that was what bankers did; we don’t need doctors joining in the pseudoscientific guff.

bollocks

[Mich the Tester]

You clearly know nothing about cars.

1. Fiat have had runaway successes with the new Fiat Punto and 500 models and are flush with cash.


HTH

by making stuff people want to buy

Let's keep it simple.

[centurian]

Ah well - theres always the Andromeda Galaxy collision - but thats 3.5 Billion years away - wonder what my molecules will be up to then ?

Your molecules and cells are replaced every 7-ish years.

So the body you had 20 years ago is literally spread everywhere - mostly in the environment, but they could now be cells in other people's bodies.

Makes you wonder what we really are - if our physical form changes about 10 times in our lifetime.

[PM-Junkie]

You clearly know nothing about cars.

1. Fiat have had runaway successes with the new Fiat Punto and 500 models and are flush with cash.

2. There is no such thing as the British car industry - just foriegn companies who build in Britain.

HTH

And you clearly know nothing about car manufacturers. Fiat made a $536 million loss in Q1, and their sales have dropped even further since then. Marchionne himself admitted that Fiat need an alliance with another car manufacturer "to keep the company viable" - but then I guess you know more about Fiat than the CEO of Fiat does.