Killing The Golden Goose

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Thu 3 Jan 2013 12:41
Killing The Golden Goose - oldroverboy.

www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailand...l

.So how long before jaguar landrover start retrenching?

Aston martin sales in freefall too. benyley and rolls royce also losing sales.. lotus selling few cars.

Edited by Avant on 03/01/2013 at 23:20

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Thu 3 Jan 2013 14:31
Killng - The Golden Goose - Happy Blue!

That's only Italy though. Lots of wealthy people elsewhere in the word and people in Italy avoid overt displays of wealth in a time of austerity - it brings the taxman looking

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Thu 3 Jan 2013 17:19
Killng - The Golden Goose - RT

Italy's always been fiddled, must be that Nero !

When I worked for a US-owned multi-national, my Italian counterpart had to keep three independent sets of accounts - one for local management to see how the subsidiary was actually doing, one for the head office in LA making it look much better and one for the Italian tax authorities making it look a lot worse.

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Thu 3 Jan 2013 19:09
Killng - The Golden Goose - madf

Italy's always been fiddled, must be that Nero !

When I worked for a US-owned multi-national, my Italian counterpart had to keep three independent sets of accounts - one for local management to see how the subsidiary was actually doing, one for the head office in LA making it look much better and one for the Italian tax authorities making it look a lot worse.

err four:

One for the important people: the Mafia.

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Thu 3 Jan 2013 22:14
Killng - The Golden Goose - mark193

Hi

Best Post of the night !!!!!!

Ha Ha Ha - Excellent

Listening to 'Archives of Pain' - Manic Street Preachers, whilst writing this!!

Mark193

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Thu 3 Jan 2013 22:30
Killng - The Golden Goose - Trilogy

Nowadays China seems to be the most important market. If car manufacturers are not there selling their cars...........

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Thu 3 Jan 2013 22:46
Killng - The Golden Goose - MikeTorque

Some of these countries are suffering with huge debt problems, there simply isn't the money around to buy these types of cars, even the base models are struggling.

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Sun 6 Jan 2013 12:36
Killng - The Golden Goose - Sofa Spud

Supercars have always been associated with wealth and extravagance, but maybe these days that association has changed subtly to one of with greed and 'more money than sense', as with Porsches in the 1980's.

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Sun 6 Jan 2013 17:19
Killng - The Golden Goose - countryroads

I have a couple of friends who work for JLR and they are cranking them out as fast as they can, waiting lists are long and the Chinese market is working well for them. To the point of doing a China only 4cylinder petrol XJ later this year I believe.

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Sun 6 Jan 2013 18:13
Killng - The Golden Goose - veryoldbear

I keep seeing truckloads going down the A34, I suspect to Southampton docks ...

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