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BMW did not buy Mitsubishi’s Nedcar plant , a Dutch busmaker did. Mitsubishi today said it signed a principal agreement on the sale of its Dutch Nedcar plant to local bus maker VDL Groep. The busmaker gets a deal: The plant with a book value of 493 million Euro ($605 million) goes for exactly one euro.
According to a Reuters report, the condition of the sweetheart deal is that the 1,500 employees of the plant do not lose their jobs. Mitsubishi Motors is setting its sights on emerging markets. BMW may not be totally out of the picture. Japanese NHK reported that VDL could be producing small cars for BMW.
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How thoughtful a company would condition this on their employees keeping their jobs. When was the last time this happened anywhere else? The Japanese still believe the people are an asset to the company, not just a stupid slogan.
If they can’t come up with a viable product soon it’s going to be difficult to keep that promise.
Given the expense of laying off those 1500 people, Mitsubishi probably got a deal.
More likely some sort of clawback clause in some government incentives/penalties for idling the workforce.
The product problem wasn’t NEDCar’s, it was Mitsubishi’s, God love ’em. They can’t seem to get it together these days…
That plant was kicking out tons of Colts, Carismas, S40s and V40s for years. Then Volvo and Mitsu skidded to a halt, sales-wise.
Isn’t this plant associated with British Leyland in some unfortunate way?
That’s the old Born DAF car plant. One of the first CVT cars. The car business was sold to Volvo in the mid 70s.
DAF and Leyland Trucks did merge at one point, but they never built trucks at Born.I believe the truck part is now owned by Paccar.
Thanks for answering a very esoteric question.