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Wild Ass Rumor Of The Day: BYD After Maybach?
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Edward Niedermeyer
(IC: employee)
Published: March 29th, 2010
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Chinese site auto.sina.com [via thetycho.com] has a belly-laugher of a wild-ass rumor: they say BYD has its eye on Daimler’s zombie luxury brand Maybach. The rumor is clearly based on the fact that BYD and Daimler recently closed a cooperation deal, in which they will jointly build vehicles in China for sale under a new brand name. But beyond that, there’s not much to go on. From what I can tell from the Google Translate version of the story, auto.sina.com seems to have an anonymous source in BYD that on March 23 divulged:
BYD is on the matter and approached Daimler, Daimler announced soon abandoned the brand, BYD Auto will soon be underway acquisition action.
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Published March 29th, 2010 7:43 PM
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I'm somewhere between Gun Draft and Title Party on this.
Since the Maybach's styling looks like a Chinese car (Chinese designed and built limo for high ranking party members) that's a perfect match.