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Kerkorian has lost it; Nissan is in bad shape and Renault is a domestic product only because the quality is so bad.
1 posted on 06/30/2006 1:08:13 PM PDT by Mikey_1962
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To: Mikey_1962

He must be sellng GM short.......


2 posted on 06/30/2006 1:10:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (Follow an IROC long enough and sooner or later you will wind up in a trailer park..........)
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To: Mikey_1962

Lest we forget, The last time there was a Renault Alliance.......

3 posted on 06/30/2006 1:13:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Follow an IROC long enough and sooner or later you will wind up in a trailer park..........)
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To: Mikey_1962
This reminds me of when Data General & Univac announced they were merging to form Unisys.

Some wag likened it to tying two stones together so that they would float better.

4 posted on 06/30/2006 1:13:52 PM PDT by robomurph
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To: Mikey_1962

Shades of AMC.


6 posted on 06/30/2006 1:17:11 PM PDT by Post-Neolithic
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Renault? What's the matter,wasn't Yugo answering the phones when he called?
7 posted on 06/30/2006 1:18:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Mikey_1962

Actually, Nissan has turned it around, and Ghosn is in the process of turning Renault around. From what I read, modern Renaults are not all that bad.

This would mean that GM would be partially French, though.


8 posted on 06/30/2006 1:19:30 PM PDT by B Knotts (Newt '08!)
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Nissan is in bad shape? Best operating margins in the industry, and Ghosn is more talented than any of the dinosaurs running GM into the ground today. Renault's quality issues are in the past, and they are strong in Europe. GM would get a huge capital infusion that would assure the company does not go bankrupt. Would be good for shareholders, employees, to shake things up.


9 posted on 06/30/2006 1:19:57 PM PDT by usafsk ((Know what you're talking about before you dance the QWERTY waltz))
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To: Mikey_1962

This proposal seem somehow so very...appropriate.


10 posted on 06/30/2006 1:23:28 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Delicacy, precision, force)
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To: Mikey_1962

Generic Motors could use Nissan's design team. It might actually help their image in the passenger car market.


15 posted on 06/30/2006 1:36:47 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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"General Motors convened an emergency board meeting Friday to discuss a proposal by shareholder Kirk Kerkorian to form an alliance between GM and Renault-Nissan, say two sources close to the board. "

As Dandy Don Meredith used to say, "Turn out the lights, the party's over..."

40 posted on 06/30/2006 4:09:15 PM PDT by OKSooner (It wasn't the black guy after all - the dutch boy did it.)
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