1 Apr 2025 11:37 pm
DeezerShoove » 25 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ When American Motors had Renault buy 46% of it in the 80's, the goal was to increase AMC market share to 3%.
Think of how small that is. They wanted to aggressively increase car sales to 3%.
Jeep was the real plum in all the times that car company was sold/bought/merged... whatever.
American, French, German, Italian, American (again), etc...
Small or large, it takes big plants and lots of money to design, produce and sell cars.
Renault the "French" only interest was use our "Network" Dealerships plus owning a half stake in America Motors.
Renault made one very good car that even Chrysler kept making afew model years after "complete" Takeover..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_9_and_11Assembly
- France: Douai
- Spain: Valladolid
- Taiwan: Taichung (Sanfu Motors)
- United States: Kenosha (AMC