Cosworth Technology solgt.

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen's premium car division Audi has sold its high-performance engine unit Cosworth Technology to Germany's Mahle, Audi says.

It gave no financial details for the sale of Cosworth, which developed the engine in the Audi RS6 model and worked for other customers as well. The deal takes effect at the turn of the year, pending regulatory approval.

 

Stuttgart-based Mahle, one of the world's top 30 automotive suppliers, makes pistons, engine components and filter systems. It had 2003 sales of 3.2 billion euros (2.2 billion pounds).

 

Based in the Midlands, Cosworth Technology has been a wholly owned Audi unit since 1998. It develops, manufactures and assembles engines and employs 970 staff at three plants at Worcester, Northampton and Wellingborough, and at one site in the United States.

 

The British branch generated 2003 sales of 112 million pounds while the U.S. arm had sales of $31 million (16 million pounds), it said.

 

Audi bought Cosworth in 1998 from Vickers for 117 million pounds, then sold the famed Cosworth Formula One racing engines business to Ford.

 

Ford sold that business last month to Kevin Kalkhoven and Gerald Forsythe, owners of the PKV and Forsythe teams.

 

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Og pressemeldingen fra Mahle:

 

MAHLE Acquires Cosworth Technology Group

 

Begge bilprodusentene så seg ikke tjent med å ha Cosworth under vingene.

Tidene forandrer seg så Cosworth Technology navnet blir nok historie nå..

[Gulgen_rs]

Ikke si sånt a... COSWORTH blir vel ford ???? vær så snill:)

ill.???

[turbodohc]

Ford har vell aldri eid Cosworth. bare retten til å ha med navnet på bilmodeller. De leide vell tjenester av cosworth.

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Ford har vell aldri eid Cosworth.

Den brutale sannhet er nok Kjøpt og solgt.

 

Kortversjon fra trådstarten:

Audi bought Cosworth in 1998 from Vickers for 117 million pounds, then sold the famed Cosworth Formula One racing engines business to Ford.

Lang versjon:

http://www.fmcn.no/forum/index.php?showtopic=3407

 

Dette var nok siste gang vi så Power by Cosworth bak på fabrikkbilen. Ford_Focus_WRC_2003_66.jpg

 

Nye bilen flasher M sport profilering. Ford_Focus_WRC_Concept_2006_03.jpg

 

www.m-sport.co.uk

[Guest Ford Gnomen]

Cosworth Racing er også for salg for 1£ las jeg i nest siste Max Power, men da måtte du ta over de prosjektene de hadde på gang, noe rundt 5mill£ +.

[Syvers]

fremtiden til ford er billige familiebiler for arbeidsklassen! ikke noe mere sportsbil for fattilgfolk ifra ford

[Guest FordPower]

det virker slik! noe som er veldig trist!