ori sunt eu prea obosit, ori chior, da' nu gasesc butonul de Edit.
asta e articolul pe care-l cautam, din nou sunt in dubii, parca era mai lung in revista si cu mai multe detalii.
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Volkswagen AG will buy a controlling stake in Italy's largest design and engineering firm, Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A., two industry sources confirmed to Automotive News Europe.
One of the sources said that an announcement could come as early as next week. Italdesign and VW representatives declined to comment.
The move is consistent with VW's plan to be the world's largest automaker by 2018 with sales of 10 million vehicles a year. To reach that goal, VW's 10-brand group, including Porsche, will need more designers and engineers. In 2010 alone, VW group plans to add 60 models, including upgrades.
Italdesign, co-founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro in 1968, currently has 975 employees and 800 computer aided design workstations. Most of the workers and equipment are based at the company's headquarters in Moncalieri, 15km south of Turin.
Italdesign is a private company entirely owned by Giorgetto Giugiaro, 71, who serves as chairman, and his son Fabrizio, 45, who heads the design and model division.
Both executives are expected to continue working at the company following the VW takeover.
Italdesign does not disclose its financial results. The most recent data available shows that in 2008 the company increased its revenues 6.2 percent to 136 million euros ($166 million) and reported an operating breakeven.
Engineering work stays confidential
Recent models designed by Italdesign include the Alfa Romeo 159 sedan and station wagon, Brera coupe; Fiat Grande Punto and Idea; Suzuki SX4 and its Fiat Sedici sister model.
Italdesign's design work is often made public by its automaker clients, but its engineering work typically remains confidential.
In the past five years, the only engineering task that Italdesign was allowed to take public credit for was engineering the model range of BMW's second-generation Mini -- a hatchback, convertible and the Clubman station wagon.
Previous engineering works include the Citroen C3 Pluriel small convertible car and variants of the past-generation Renault Megane compact.
For VW, Italdesign styled the first-generation Golf, Audi 80, VW Passat and Scirocco; the entire family of VW's W12 sports car concepts, plus several Seat models and concept models for the rebirth of the Bugatti brand under VW.

BILBAO, Spain – Alfa Romeo will meet and could even exceed its ambitious target of boosting global sales fivefold in the next four years.
“In the past you have heard several times Alfa promising such growth figures, but this time we have the right conditions, the right products and the right synergies to get there,” Alfa CEO Harald J. Wester told the Automotive News Europe Congress here last week.
Alfa's owner, Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A., is targeting 500,000 annual sales for its sporty brand in 2014, up from just over 100,000 in 2009.
Wester, who is also CEO of Fiat subsidiary Maserati, said Alfa's product offensive will help the brand, which this month celebrates its 100th anniversary, to boost volume.
In the next four years, Alfa will launch six new products – a five-door version of the MiTo subcompact; the Giulia mid-sized sedan and wagon to replace the 159, a new Spider, a medium SUV and a large SUV.
Wester said synergies with Chrysler group will help Alfa, which will benefit from economies of scale within the Fiat-Chrysler alliance that it never had in the past.
Alfa's new Giulietta compact hatchback is based on a new compact platform that will underpin annual production of 1 million Fiat, Chrysler and Alfa vehicles.
Wester said Alfa's new cars will have more safety and comfort features and more legroom in the rear.
The brand's latest model, the Giulietta, achieved a five-star rating in the European New Car Assessment Program (EuroNCAP) with high scores for adult and child occupant safety, pedestrian protection and safety assistance features

How can Alfa Romeo reach its ambitious target of boosting annual unit sales above 500,000 by 2014 from 102,000 units last year? Become part of Europe's largest automaker, says one analyst.
”Maybe Alfa could get to a half million unit sales a year, but only after the brand is sold to Volkswagen,” Arndt Ellinghorst, global head of automotive research at Credit Suisse, told Automotive News Europe in a phone interview last week. Many financial analysts, including Ellinghorst, doubt that Alfa can get to 500,000 units a year under Fiat S.p.A. ownership.
By mentioning Alfa in the same breath as VW Group, Ellinghorst may spark another round of speculation that the German giant would like to add Alfa to its collection of Italian treasures.
Rumors of a possible sale of Alfa to VW surfaced in Turin and Wolfsburg late last year. The buzz has not died down despite VW's and Fiat's repeated denials that a deal is in the works.
In April, VW CEO Martin Winterkorn told reporters that he admires Alfa, but said the VW group, which is in the middle of trying to takeover Porsche AG, is not planning to add yet another brand.
“With the hiring of design director Walter de' Silva and marketing expert Luca De Meo, as well as [the purchase of control in] Lamborghini and Italdesign Giugiaro as companies, our appetite for buying in Italy is fully satisfied,” Winterkorn said.
Winterkorn's statement was clear, but there are a number of other Alfa fans in Wolfsburg, such as VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech, de' Silva, who was Alfa's design director before becoming part of the VW Group in 2000, and De Meo, who was CEO at Alfa before joining VW last summer.
So stay tuned because Ellinghorst has a knack for being right about VW. Don't forget, he was the first to predict VW's reverse takeover of Porsche.

Dar apropo de Arese si centenar, Marius, de ce zici ca Fiat-ul n-ar mai fi interesat de Alfa? La urma urmei e prima oara cand Alfa trage sperante de insanatosire financiara? Vanzarile la MiTo merg bine, la Giulietta comenzile sunt peste asteptari, daca ar vinde-o acum ar fi o idee nu intocmai stralucita zic eu. Marchionne stie doar 'balance the books', de ce sa vanda cand are toate sansele sa iesa din pierdere?