I think because it’s illegal and if you tried and got caught you would definitely end up either being locked up in the nut house or executed depending on where you live.

Looks like an Oliver to me.

These guys? Really?

I do understand business. Very well. In GM's instance the preferred stock is locked up - after all it went bust and had to be bailed out by the Government. It was viewed as a strategic asset of the US which is why it was given $billions in bail out funds when it went to the wall. The markets couldn't take a full…

Ah well...

I wonder how they feel about U2

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So it's whoever owns the majority. So lets say one day a group of German funds own a majority of the stock of GM that's traded and then the next day they sell some stock and now it's Japanese funds that own the majority of stock. So according to you on day one GM is German but the next day it's Japanese. You do…

Well if that's how you think, fair enough. Then GM is 2.5% owned by Saudi Arabia so it's only mainly American but also Saudi. Is that how it works?

Sure. And with wit like yours, you'll be making the tea. And I don't think of you as soft cheese, more some processed KRAFT slices I think. Happy New Year to you too. With luck Chrysler won't turn to spaghetti when Fiat owns all of it. They're exporting the Fiat 500L to the US so I'm sure you're in good hands.

I thought it said Yoda was Luke's father - need to read again.

As I said before AM, Jaguar, LR etc are British companies. They themselves may be owned by an overseas company. By your reasoning Chrysler is Italian.

The British car industry was already in decline when the oil shock hit. It's easy to say they didn't have a strategy or a clue but it's always easy to say that in hindsight. I think people forget what a horrendous fuck up the oil shock was. I read a Mackinsey report that said investemnt rates into the US didn't…

Well stop licking it.

“Obi-Wan Kenobi who defends the Wookies when their home, the planet Kazhyyyk is overrun by droids”

Well done. Google has worked for you. Now look up Stockholder / Shareholder.

No your argument is based on British car companies not being owned by British people or other British companies. Which is crap. Also stock holders are not 'investors' - they are owners - that's the fucking definition of what being a stock holder is. If I give a company a loan, I'm investing. If I buy stock, I'm…

The boards of the companies authorise production. The facilities are owned by UK companies. E.g. Aston Martin facilities are owned by Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd.

Uh No. Just no. BL was formed in 1968 by the merger of BMH and Leyland. If that merger hadn't happened BMH would've gone bust - this would've included Austin, Morris and MG.

I'm really fucking struggling to see what your point is. GM is 2.5% owned by the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund, did you even know that? How much of Chrysler and Ford stock is owned by foreign companies and funds? It's called globalisation. Look it up. All these cars are made in the UK by UK workers in UK…