Date:         Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:29:06 -0700
Reply-To:     Tony Schiebel <tschiebe@EDM.MONTAGE.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Tony Schiebel <tschiebe@EDM.MONTAGE.CA>
Subject:      Vanagon Syncro's soon to be made in CANADA!!!
Comments: To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Syncronauts...

Well not really, but we Canadians now own the technology to make the darn
things!!!  You better be nice to us!!!!   ;-)

From the Globe and Mail News:

VIENNA - Vienna bourse traders were so disappointed on Wednesday at the sale of
Austrian car assembler Steyr-Daimler-Puch to Canadian car-parts maker Magna
International that no-one was willing to trade at quoted prices for its
shares.  Magna paid four billion schillings ($440 million Cdn.) in cash on
Tuesday to Austrian bank Creditanstalt for its 66.8 per cent stake in Steyr and
its 50 per cent holding in the design and engineering unit Steyr-Daimler-Puch
Fahrzeugtechnik (SFT).

<<< SNIP >>>

Steyr manufactures vehicles in Europe on behalf of Chrysler Corp of the U.S. It
assembles the Jeep Grand Cherokee sport utility vehicles and is joint partner
with Chrysler in Eurostar, which assembles about 50,000 Voyager minivans a
year.<P>      The Austrian firm also assembles Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicles
as well as supplying complete all-wheel-drive systems for Chrysler's minivans
and Mercedes' E-Class sedans.


Cheers
Tony

Tony Schiebel - Senior Systems Consultant
tschiebe@env.gov.ab.ca
Year 2000 Project
(403)427-9307