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Originally Posted by sptsdn So you would rather have no Alfas at all? Without FIAT, there would be no Alfa or Ferrari. Without Ford there would be no Jaguar, Volvo, Aston Martin, or Land Rover; without GM there would be no Saab; no Lamborghini and Bentley without Audi; etc, etc, etc. Facts need to be faced, Alfa could not survive on its own and needed assistance. Merging/sharing products is a result of this. The parent companies should expect a return on their investments - they're businesses, not charitable organizations. If all the above mentioned companies were so great to begin with they shouldn't have needed to be bailed out. They were all competing for the same respective customers but failed. Does it seam reasonable for the parent companies to allow them to continue their downward spiral? No, instead, they needed to share development costs in order to survive. The "purest" mentality is no longer valid.