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Old 21-11-2022, 05:31 PM   #22
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Default Re: Shannons Design to Driveway Series

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I think he also became the fall guy for the "Exploder saga" and wasn't it around his time Ford bought Volvo, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover etc. or merged them into the Premier group with Lincoln etc.......maybe it was a case of "stick to your Knitting" as while the company made probably the biggest profits it's ever achieved in many areas including car manufacturing things changed later.
I think Jac Nasser ended up being the sacrificial lamb. Going from past examples, I'm guessing there was also a bit of not-invented-here syndrome going on there too, as in a dumb "Aussie" running an American car company.
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