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Originally Posted by Fordman1
My bet is the opposite.
I’ll bookmark this thread, as I think one or two popular Ford commercial vehicles that are under development will be used by VW AG.
Ford have a VERY strong truck portfolio.
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From what I can gather you are close to the mark. Ford is number 1 in commercial vehicles in Europe and VW are well behind. I think VW want to tap into Fords strong commercial vans.
A lot of employees are questioning why Ford, who have won most ethical companies awards, are getting involved with a cheating, criminal organisation like VW, especially after the Audi exec that was just arrested hours before this announcement, and others VW execs who have been jailed.
And apparently there is still some bad blood from a previous VW Sharan/Ford Galaxy joint venture decades ago that didn't end well.
But at this stage it's just an agreement to have talks. May not even go past that stage.