Geely's plans to buy Volvo from Ford unravelling over intellectual property concerns?

Ford has been trying to unload since December 2008, Volvo brand, but after years of rumors and speculation that the 10 months is more like a 10-year feel. China's Geely has been speculation that the figure, a blue oval Swedish luxury brand bidding, but Bloomberg News reported that the long-awaited agreement may be due to excessive hold Ford's intellectual property rights.

Since Volvo is so tightly integrated into Ford's product development, any buyer of the safety awareness of car manufacturers will be within the blue oval's future product plans, access to the latest and best technical expertise. The buyer will also go directly to Ford's structure, because there are so many people to share themselves with Volvo. In fact, if lucky to buy Volvo, these platforms, through the excellent European and U.S. crash test standards do, it can be to China's largest car into the coveted U.S. market. And to help Chinese car to enter the United States may not be in the list of things Ford wanted to do, and now the top.

U.S. and European car companies have been trying to contain China's loose intellectual property rules their hands full. By the Chinese car electronics manufacturer to build a number of vehicles and the Great Wall to sell the land, only vehicles from the United States for more replication. , Japanese and European car manufacturers ... save the new logo. Ford also faces a Xiang Dong rain, of course, Ford's engineers, who stole sensitive and confidential 4000 Dearborn, rice paper-based car manufacturers situation. In the sticky fingers engineer allegedly stolen car in Shanghai in order to obtain work, but he may be employed by the Beijing auto document.




Ford may face another problem is the cheap price tag-based Volvo rumors in recess due to years of sales and huge losses to provide. Ford bought Volvo in 1999, more than six billion U.S. dollars, GPS navigations that sales of the brand, the Swedish car manufacturers can now get 2 billion U.S. dollars are familiar with as little as possible. Although this amount is not useless, and Ford may be better to wait until hot backup car market gain. The new Volvo XC60 crossover will help curb the sale of the plight of the United States point out here that the Swedish car manufacturer to achieve a 16% sales increase in September last year. Next year's introduction of several redesigned cycle face lift can continue to help the short-term prospects for the Volvo S60 with the.