<VV> More "fool"ishness

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In case you thought we were alone in today's  foolishness!  - Seth
 
>From Car & Driver On-line
 
Nearly four years to the day that the final Oldsmobile  rolled off the 
assembly line in Lansing, Michigan, comes word that Oldsmobile is  back. More 
startling than the announcement itself is its origin -- not from  Lansing, not from 
Detroit, not from Michigan, not even from anywhere in North  America.

A statement from Tokyo, of all places, reports that Toyota has  secured 
rights to the Oldsmobile name. Asked for comment, GM is remaining  extremely 
tight-lipped on the issue at the moment while presumably trying to  sort out 
internally what oversight allowed this to happen -- and who to can for  it.



 
Oversight

Toyota officials have stated  that GM's copyright on the Oldsmobile brand 
name expired midway through 2006. In  the midst of the constant corporate 
shuffling underway in the domestic  automotive juggernaut, somehow responsibility for 
renewal slipped through the  cracks and the name floated around untethered 
for almost a year before someone  at Toyota noticed. The unsubstantiated -- at 
this point -- story is that the  alert came from the astute nephew of a 
still-confidential executive, who works  as a clerk in the U.S. Copyright Office.
 
 
 
And it went on and on about all the new  "Oldsmobile" models And ended  ....  
>  April Fools! 






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