I didn’t see this one coming.
Yes, I thought, and wrote, that the auto supplier industry was likely to see consolidation, particularly in areas like internal combustion engine (or ICE) components, where pressures from eventual hybrid/electric adoption and R&D were going to reward scale. I likewise thought there’d eventually be consolidation in hybrid/EV-related components, as companies who waited too long to move (or made the wrong moves) tried to correct.
Still, while it makes a great deal of sense to me, I didn’t expect BorgWarner (BWA) to pony up and acquire Delphi (