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Volvo couldn't have achieved everything they did since 99 if it wasn't the Ford investment.

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Oddly enough if SAIC actually did buy Volvo my guess is that Volvo sales would go up rather dramatically. But indeed your resale would go down the toilet, since the sales would likely go up because Volvo would be a lot more competitive about pricing.
This is based on what happened to MG cars-they're now a LOT cheaper than they were before they got bought out (by Nanjing, which then merged with SAIC), since SAIC can now supply about 60% of the parts for the car.
Before that MG pricing was hilariously higher than imported competition, which isn't exactly great for sales or staying in business.
They're still assembled in England too, so I presume a similar arrangement would occur if SAIC purchased Volvo-SAIC would basically use their more efficient supply chain to help Volvo reduce costs, and then Volvo could probably lower their MSRP's by like 3-5K across the board.

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I find it ridiculous that people keep making these stupid claims about how if SAIC buys Volvo they'll suddenly have safer cars, etc.
First off, SAIC *ALREADY* has access to both GM and VW technology since they build their friggin' cars in China. On top of that they also own both MG and Rover's intellectual property (but not the Rover brand).
Plus their own Roewe 550 sedan is supposed to be a 5-star Euro NCAP crash test rated vehicle, so it's not like they're having problems designing safe cars.

Personally I don't even think acquiring Volvo makes all that much sense for SAIC since they already own quite a few brands at this point.

And anyways, the Indians own Aston Martin and Land Rover, so what's with the idiotic paranoia about the Chinese owning Volvo? Volvo's not even an American brand so it's already under foreign ownership so it's not like it's some huge ego breaker for the Swedes.

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Don't sign them to it yet. Talks never mean certainty.

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While I'm not into Domestic (except for vette and cts), I hate to say it, if they go down they other countries will go down too! Ha! Take that China!

China, Japan, Australia, and many other countries will be screwed!!

So if we are in a recession and 3 million people is out of a job, our dollars will go down. Our purchasing power goes down. We ain't buying any more of foreign widgets (most from China and Japan). Then they will get screw too!! Muhahaha MAD (mutual assured destructions!!).

GO ahead and invade us!! We don't have the money to buy your expensive Vulva hahahaha. That's what you get for being a global market and depending on our mighty strong dollar currency!!

Oh wait, damn... those Russian will take over S. America with Hugo Chavez >_>;;

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mythical:
Ummm... what?
Okay, You need to realize that the US isn't the only economy there is. Surely the US economy has rippling effects on virtually every economy in the world, but just to give an example, exports to the US account for only about 20% of Chinese exports, and exports themselves are less than 40% of China's GDP. So while that's a big chunk, that still leaves quite a bit of the Chinese economy that is not directly linked to trade with the United States.

...And what strong dollar? Up until it stabilized few months ago, the US dollar's value was dropping like a rock! You might pick up a New York Times before you make silly baseless comments like that.

And I'm not even going to address that Russia comment...

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James:
Sarcasm doesn't work so well. I know the dollar is going down so hence, the comment about the other countries market will take a beating or the purchasing power of the dollar. I was merely pointing out that other countries depend upon our stronger dollar to drive their economy LIKE THE NIKKEI or JAPAN. BUT since our dollar tank they're screwed.

Aside from trading if USA tank how are we going to pay China back? Magic beans? 20% eh?

The point I was trying to make was Affalterbach comment of China invading USA with volvo after the big-3 die out. It ain't going happen because our purchasing power... You know what whatever. I don't care this is stupid if you didn't connect the dot from my sarcasm and my post with the original post then it all fine.

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I'm pretty sure it says Yuan, not Yen. Although the character should go AFTER the number, not before it.

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