Reply to: Doom drought

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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

[Mich the Tester]

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

[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.

[Menelaus]

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

I suspect that Fiat may be getting a bung from the US for taking Chrysler.

[Mich the Tester]

“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.

[alreadypacked]

Berlusconi looks like he'll be getting divorced....

Doomed I tells ya!

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

[suityou01]

Yay, some doom

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8034260.stm

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.

[Menelaus]

No, f**k it, it’s boring anyway. Unless they’re paying a tulipload of money.

Ah well ... it's cool because for most of us we look on it as being a cool research exercise with some tulip hot data - it's just like an extension of university.

[Clippy]

Perhaps Mitch can post some doom/gloom updates from Europe to give us something to fret over.

PS Could this be Henman's year after all ?

PPS Anybody worried about Heathrows new baggage retrieval system ?

PPPS Or those latest shoes - Im sure they're not good for your feet ??

Berlusconi looks like he'll be getting divorced....

Doomed I tells ya!

[Mich the Tester]

Mon ami, I'll bear you in mind, but we're knee-deep in mathematicians and statisticians (like-what-I-is) at the moment. If you were looking for a role of that sort I know that Fortis (in your neck of the woods?) were looking for a model validation engineer.

No, f**k it, it’s boring anyway. Unless they’re paying a tulipload of money.

[Menelaus]

Cool; someone will have to test these models. May I suggest that that someone is an objective, independent tester who has not worked for or holds no investment in any of the parties involved in this credit rating and stress testing business?

I think I know such a chap. Quite expensive mind you, but cheapness always leads to depravation and so on

Mon ami, I'll bear you in mind, but we're knee-deep in mathematicians and statisticians (like-what-I-is) at the moment. If you were looking for a role of that sort I know that Fortis (in your neck of the woods?) were looking for a model validation engineer.