Dodge to Renault?
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DODGE TRUCKS look set to s gently into new French hands reports this week of a Talbot/F nault joint commercial vehii project are translated in practice.
As we closed for press Tuesday, word broke that T bot's long search for a partner help it develop Dodge as a ma. manufacturing force had end successfully, and that a fom announcement would be ma by the end of this month, Continental industry al union sources have told T Times that the deal, which in ally is intended to help Docl and Renault collaborate in t manufacture and marketing vehicles, will be followed eve tually by a full merger of th, commercial vehicle interests.
It is a move which has be expected since the Peugeot Ff. Group bought the former C rysler Europe company in 19: Peugeot has long been c. rather than heavy cornmerc biased, and Citroen's Berl division soon was sold to F naul1 after it passed into ipeugE hands.
Last year, there was a stro! possibility that Dodge might least co-operate with DAF, a so come close to internatior Harvester, while Renault car within a whisker of buying t bankrupt Fodens company.