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Car Forum / Alfa Romeo Cars / December 2003Alfa part of Ferrari... What's the status?
Anyone with more information about the proposal to put Alfa Romeo in the Ferrari Maserati Group? Rumours? Hints? Secret Files? Morpheus? Anyone? Neuropean > Anyone with more information about the proposal to put Alfa Romeo in > the Ferrari Maserati Group? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Anyone? > Neuropean Alfa are part of the FIAT group, along with Ferrari and Maserati. Perhaps what you're thinking of is the suggestion that Alfa become more prestegous (sp?) alongside Ferrari & Maserati ? > > Anyone with more information about the proposal to put Alfa Romeo in > > the Ferrari Maserati Group? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > what you're thinking of is the suggestion that Alfa become more prestegous > (sp?) alongside Ferrari & Maserati ? The following was floating around newsgroups a year or so ago: " Alfa Romeo to be transferred to the Ferrari-Maserati Group - Fiat to cancel the 'put' option requiring GM to buy the auto division - GM to give up first refusal option on sale of transfer of auto group assets -!!! VW/Audi to take 'significant but minority' stake in the new Ferari-Maserati-Alfa Romeo company - 'Powertrain', the joint GM/Fiat parts development company and platform sharing to be unaffected " > > Anyone with more information about the proposal to put Alfa Romeo in > > the Ferrari Maserati Group? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > what you're thinking of is the suggestion that Alfa become more prestegous > (sp?) alongside Ferrari & Maserati ? That's not exactly true. Both Fiat Auto and Ferrari are owned by Fiat corporate, but they are semi-autonomous subsidiaries. I.E. Fiat Auto controls Lancia, AR and Fiat brands and Ferrari controls Maserati and Ferrari brands. It has been suggested that Alfa Romeo would be better served as a marque if they were removed from the struggling Fiat Auto division and placed under the Ferrari division. I agree as does Luca Di Montezemolo, the president of Ferrari S.P.A.  SignatureGeorge Graves ------------------ "Knowledge is Good" Emile Faber -Founder, Faber College I'm asking because I found this on an italian 147 discussion Group: Taken from an Italian Car MAgazine: "... Giugiaro firmerà le prossime Alfa Romeo. Si parla fra l'altro di un "ridimensionamento" del centro stile di Arese, per concentrare a Torino tutto il design del Gruppo, ma in proposito è aperta un'alternativa, legata al possibile ingresso del marchio Alfa Romeo nel gruppo Ferrari-Maserati. Se tale ipotesi, per ora allo stadio embrionale, si concretizzerà, in seguito al passaggio di Fiat e Lancia alla General Motors, è già in fase di progettazione a Maranello un centro stile all'avanguardia dove, oltre alle vetture modenesi, potranno essere concepite e sviluppate le future Alfa Romeo Rapidly translated this gives: "...Giugiaro will sign the next Alfa Romeo. There are rumours about "resizing" the Centro Stile in Arese to concentrate all the Group's design in Turin; but on that matter, an alternative remains open, linked to the possible entrance of the Alfa Romeo brand in the Ferrari-Maserati group. If that hypothesis, now still at embryo status, will materialise, after the passage of the FIat and Lancia brands to General Motors, a new vanguard design center is in project at Maranello, where on top of the cars from Modena (i.e. Ferrari, ndt), could be designed and developed the future Alfa Romeo." Neuropean >>> Anyone with more information about the proposal to put Alfa Romeo in >>> the Ferrari Maserati Group? [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > division and placed under the Ferrari division. I agree as does Luca > Di Montezemolo, the president of Ferrari S.P.A. I never knew that. Thanks for the information! My understanding, and this is very depressing, Alfa will be acquired by GM, GM already owns 20 percent of Alfa. > My understanding, and this is very depressing, Alfa will be acquired by GM, > GM > already owns 20 percent of Alfa. Not likley. Neither Fiat or GM seem to want to exercise that "put" option. SignatureGeorge Graves ------------------ "Knowledge is Good" Emile Faber -Founder, Faber College |
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