Days after reports that Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) owner Oleg Deripaska was interested in purchasing the brand from Ford Motor Co., a spokesperson for the maker of the Volga announced that the automaker is not interested after all. GAZ, she states, is only interested in commercial vehicles and powertrains, not entire brands. Ford has yet to respond to this new development.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rene Curry @ Aug 9th 2006 9:26AM
Mt guess is Shanghai Motors may belly up to the bar.
Shawn @ Aug 9th 2006 9:46AM
...so much of automotive journalism now and days is just speculation and opinions. What is "news" anymore? Ford said its reviewing its operations. Immediately autmotive journalist write Jag sale is imminent. Then they start naming buyers wthout the buyers knowledge until the buyers respond, "What?"
How about establishing Ford is selling Jag first? Remember that whole journalism thing? Confirm, reconfirm and confirm again? Or is automotive journalism pretty much supermarket tabloids for men?
CH @ Aug 9th 2006 10:13AM
Automotive journalism is almost an oxymoron.
PJ @ Aug 9th 2006 12:19PM
... and yet, you're here to read it...
akatsuki @ Aug 9th 2006 12:39PM
Jaguar is too bloated right now to be worth anything anyway. Who really wants to be saddled with the baggage of a brand aimed at higher sales when what it needs is more exclusivity and lower sales. That means not paying for the X-type which is a disaster, nor the old S-type which would need a full redesign anyway. Out of the whole thing, the only cars really worth taking with the brand are the XJ and the XK and both of them need some work to re-establish the brand.
Upirons @ Aug 9th 2006 1:16PM
It's all these freaking blogs that cause this mass speculation. And yet, as PJ pointed out, here we all are reading it.
Shawn @ Aug 9th 2006 2:07PM
...But blogs aren't news. Autoblog is just a random link of items on the automotive topic from other sources. The bloggers have little or no automotive industry experience at all. We don't expect any type of editorial standard, correct spelling or grammar.
I just feel that automotive magazines & newspapers have become so lazy that they just publish headlines without confirmation and print speculation as fact.
CH @ Aug 9th 2006 2:59PM
PJ, even a broken clock is right twice a day, so I do skim the articles for the occasional insight. Besides, the silliness is sometimes amusing.