Re: Alfa Returning to US

[Italiacars@domain.elided]

In a message dated 3/7/00 11:40:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

<< The real problem was that they did not sell enough cars to make it
 worthwhile to stay in N.America.  Lets face it, as good as the 164 was, it
 was not enough to keep a distributorship going.  I think in the last years
 they only sold 10,000 to 15,000 vehicles per year (maybe less) and their
 target was over 100,000. >>

Alfa would have been ecstatic if the sold 15,000 cars here per year. 10,000 
would have made them just as happy, even 5,000. The problem was they were 
only selling about 600 cars a year in North America

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