Credit crunch hits Honda............. (17)

Dec 5, 2008 3:52 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
phoenix
phoenixphoenixparis, Ile-de-France France81 Threads 4 Polls 3,669 Posts
The Honda F1 team are pulling out.....Which means 500+ people loose their jobs...........

They are trying to salavage something but it doesn't look good...there are whispers that toyota may do the same...............
Dec 5, 2008 4:00 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
Lagoona22
Lagoona22Lagoona22Bugibba, Majjistral Malta161 Threads 11 Polls 10,711 Posts
I tell ya, it's going to be a very different 2009...


wow
Dec 5, 2008 6:47 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
smoky
smokysmokyUnterland, Zurich Switzerland266 Threads 6 Polls 9,412 Posts
Well I think its all a very good thing ....... not so many new machines being made. Where do all the old cars go when they die? ..... to make room for the thousands being manufactured every new day...?

Ah ha!... maybe they know something about the oil running out that we dont know?.. yet.?

.. So, whats gonna happen to all those unemployed people now...? .. Give them farmlands to till - food is more important than manufacture - then they can still eat .......grin
Dec 5, 2008 6:57 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
maruska1980
maruska1980maruska1980Santa Venera, Majjistral Malta7 Threads 1 Polls 308 Posts
smoky: Well I think its all a very good thing ....... not so many new machines being made. Where do all the old cars go when they die? ..... to make room for the thousands being manufactured every new day...?

Ah ha!... maybe they know something about the oil running out that we dont know?.. yet.?

.. So, whats gonna happen to all those unemployed people now...? .. Give them farmlands to till - food is more important than manufacture - then they can still eat .......


if they were ex parlament members in Malta they would have gotten 6 months wages for compensation of loosing their jobs, while you, me and any other person on the island have 6 months govt. benefits... approx €13 a day!! fair isn't it!!!!very mad very mad very mad
Dec 5, 2008 9:19 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
shot3743
shot3743shot3743Vidin, Bulgaria26 Threads 1 Polls 573 Posts
smoky: Well I think its all a very good thing ....... not so many new machines being made. Where do all the old cars go when they die? ..... to make room for the thousands being manufactured every new day...?

Ah ha!... maybe they know something about the oil running out that we dont know?.. yet.?

.. So, whats gonna happen to all those unemployed people now...? .. Give them farmlands to till - food is more important than manufacture - then they can still eat .......


Many of those old cars wind up in eastern Europe!!!
A guy in my village has just bought an old East German Trabant!! Yep, complete with 2-stroke engine.

They can come here and till the land, there's plenty of it. laugh
Dec 5, 2008 9:26 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
guiriman
guirimanguirimansouth of milan, Lombardy Italy53 Threads 6 Polls 2,128 Posts
wow folks...breathe in and tighten your belts..i was talking to a financial advisor who said we are in for a rough 4 year period...I am already seeing some effect on the business...blues
Dec 5, 2008 10:10 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
RayfromUSA
RayfromUSARayfromUSAvienne, Rhone-Alpes France86 Threads 29 Polls 6,611 Posts
smoky:
... So, whats gonna happen to all those unemployed people now...?


Haven't you ever heard of Soylent Green?
Dec 5, 2008 10:18 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
gussi
gussigussiVilters-Wangs, St Gallen Switzerland12 Threads 2 Polls 4,032 Posts
maruska1980: if they were ex parlament members in Malta they would have gotten 6 months wages for compensation of loosing their jobs, while you, me and any other person on the island have 6 months govt. benefits... approx €13 a day!! fair isn't it!!!!


fair, go to the uk and get less than 10 quid a day.


crying crying crying
Dec 5, 2008 11:32 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
RayfromUSA: Haven't you ever heard of Soylent Green?


Famous Last Words:

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!!wow uh oh mumbling
Dec 6, 2008 8:25 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
gussi
gussigussiVilters-Wangs, St Gallen Switzerland12 Threads 2 Polls 4,032 Posts
shot3743: Many of those old cars wind up in eastern Europe!!!
A guy in my village has just bought an old East German Trabant!! Yep, complete with 2-stroke engine.

They can come here and till the land, there's plenty of it.


yeah mine ended up there and it wasnt old. Just got nicked.

crying crying crying
Dec 6, 2008 10:09 PM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
wahrheit
wahrheitwahrheitnew york, New York USA2 Threads 29 Posts
smoky: Well I think its all a very good thing ....... not so many new machines being made. Where do all the old cars go when they die? ..... to make room for the thousands being manufactured every new day...?

Ah ha!... maybe they know something about the oil running out that we dont know?.. yet.?

.. So, whats gonna happen to all those unemployed people now...? .. Give them farmlands to till - food is more important than manufacture - then they can still eat .......


Yes- Love, water, firewood and food,, This is what we need.
Dec 7, 2008 2:07 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
rusty_knight
rusty_knightrusty_knightGozo, Malta175 Threads 2 Polls 6,840 Posts
phoenix: The Honda F1 team are pulling out.....Which means 500+ people loose their jobs...........

They are trying to salavage something but it doesn't look good...there are whispers that toyota may do the same...............


There was a very good 18 page report on the world car industry in the Economist a couple of weeks ago............. even the head of Renault/Nissan said that the only way forward was totally electric cars - 800 of every 1,000 Americans of driving age own a car, 600 per 1,000 western europeans, can't remember how many Chinese but less than 3 per 1,000 Indians.......... by the time they get to anything like the 500 per 1,000 point I think I'll get an electric bicycle and join the queue going round and round in ever decreasing circles in my little village!
Dec 7, 2008 2:12 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
gussi
gussigussiVilters-Wangs, St Gallen Switzerland12 Threads 2 Polls 4,032 Posts
rusty_knight: going round and round in ever decreasing circles in my little village!


Rus aint that what the dodo bird did.

rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
Dec 7, 2008 2:15 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
Lagoona22
Lagoona22Lagoona22Bugibba, Majjistral Malta161 Threads 11 Polls 10,711 Posts
Unemployment??...what I say is, learn to build a better gussett, and the world will beat a path to your pantyhose......


doh
Dec 7, 2008 2:23 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
gussi
gussigussiVilters-Wangs, St Gallen Switzerland12 Threads 2 Polls 4,032 Posts
Lagoona22: Unemployment??...what I say is, learn to build a better gussett, and the world will beat a path to your pantyhose......



check mate

rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
Dec 7, 2008 2:33 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
rusty_knight
rusty_knightrusty_knightGozo, Malta175 Threads 2 Polls 6,840 Posts
gussi: check mate


I think smoky designed and 'built' a reinforced dayglow gussett that took Switzerland by storm...... naturally Swiss bankers kept them 'under wraps' (wearing them secretly made them smile even more when taking deposits from nice African dictators etc).

Unfortunately they were banned after some idiot wore one OUTSIDE his ski suit and caused an avalanche in which three people and 26 very productive Swiss cows were killed - the people were tourists and didn't count for much, but the cows were not insured properly against 'avalanches caused by the wearing of dayglow gussetts' and the company refused to pay out on the basis that it was an 'Act of God'.

All very sad - smoky would have been extremely rich by now if only............
Dec 7, 2008 4:13 AM CST Credit crunch hits Honda.............
Gonna be NO Farming or Anything without some Manufacturing,even if only the Village Blacksmith does it.uh oh conversing wave
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