Thursday, January 27, 2011

Alfa Romeo, VW: ceding more and more close at hand?

A few days of the shoals at the Detroit Motor Show in denial about a possible sale of Alfa Romeo to Volkswagen Group, the Parties to the Lingotto seems that something is moving in this direction. The conditional is a must, but some sources have assured Motors. it the presence of top VW in Turin last night and this morning.

To confirm the simple "rumors," there are photos of six Porsche Panamera badged Wolfsburg and Leipzig (Porsche factory) in the car park of the former Fiat factory (lastpetrolheads posted by the website), which were seen leaving the manager of Opel. These are the same measures taken in 2009 during the visit of the American consul, after the Fiat-Chrysler.

If, however, late on Wednesday an agreement for the sale was considered by a well-informed "done deal", the low profile maintained by the parties would rather think of the negotiations to a halt, or at least to nothing done. In late morning, in fact, the delegation has departed without any official statement from the Lingotto.

On the other hand at this moment the attention is bet on the outcome of the last quarter 2010. Our sources, however, have had occasion to speak with a manager that VW has reported a rather tense situation. In short, rather difficult negotiations. But why should sell Fiat Alfa? With this operation, the Lingotto would be raised from the heavy financial burden for the relaunch of the brand, and together they would create a large cash liquidity required to reach 51% of Chrysler already by 2011 target confirmed by the same manager Italo-Canadian .

For its part, Volkswagen has added a very strong brand, with a connotation that is lacking today in the sport markedly even emblazoned Audi. Ultimately, we received reports that show a discrepancy between the official version, which depicts the affair as "a joke", and the real positions of the two companies.

This approach is certainly not the first nor will be the last (after all Chrysler before the deal's been two years of negotiations "secret"), but shows a stable contact between the two parties.

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