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Old 09-02-2006, 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by HenryKrinkle
well hell one minute its a rebadged maserati, then a rebadged ferrari, and now Fiat? we're working up the chain... does this really bother you that a company has subsidery companies and therefore theyre not worthy? I already know your answer....you know how many companies you should be mad at right now and call all their products DEAD? hahaha
Yes many marques have disappeared, they literally vanished in the air... they've been buried by turbocapitalism and standardization, concentration, absorption, they lost their identity.

GM for instance assassinated many many carmakers : american ones and european ones too. Saab for example.

GM also destroys asian carmakers : Daewoos are Chevrolets now. Terrible.

Fiat has destroyed most of the italian companies : Innocenti, Autobianchi, Lancia, Alfa Romeo. Curiously their Ferrari management is quite good and effective although in the past they did some mistakes : some Fiat & Lancia powered by Ferrari, buuurrkk... but the Ferrari image was not altered and it 'll continue till a Fiat JTD engine will take place under the cavallino bonnet.

Nevertheless, some companies are still alive and dynamic : Subaru is a Subaru not a rebadged/rebodied consumer "product".
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