Oh Great.....
What's next: Nissan Frontier R/T with a SuperCharged Hamster Engine....
(Think i'll go puke now....) :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net]On Behalf Of JT McBride
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 3:21 PM
> To: Dakota Mailing List
> Subject: DML: Datsun: A foul wind
>
>
> According to today´s Wall Street Journal, Daimler-Chrysler is in
> talks with
> Nissan.
>
> >Monday, Thomas T. Stallkamp, president of DaimlerChrysler Corp.,
> >the concern's U.S. entity, said, "We're still talking" with Nissan.
>
> It´s unclear whether the talks concern buying the whole company, or just
> the Nissan Diesel truck unit. Nissan has officially piled up some 22
> billion dollars in debt, and fuzzy Japanese accounting rules make it
> difficult to determine if that figure represents the true financial
> picture. Nissan is praised as having a good market presence in emerging
> markets in Asia, as well as good technical capabilities.
>
> Other suitors mentioned include France´s Renault.
>
> Thought you guys would like to know, before you start seeing gang bangers
> in their Nissan Sentras, with stolen Mercedes stars on them. OTOH, if they
> brought back the 240Z, it´d be alright with me. [I thought it was pretty
> cool that they started a factory remanufacturing unit for Z-cars.]
>
> Jim
> ´93 4x4 CC V8
>
>
>
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