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I think financial difficulties won't change much because now they're much bigger than just a few years ago. Only this year Newag expects to triple its total revenue (from 300 million zl in 2011 to ~800m zl in 2012). Pesa and Newag are pretty difficult to take over because they are private copmpanies owned by just a few guys with big ambitions. Newag is owned by one multimillionaire - Zbigniew Jakubas and they've already struggled from financial difficulties once and Jakubas said that selling Newag was never an option.
About complications. First - they haven't got so seriuous complications like Siemens with Combino. Newag had some with their first DMUs, it took them about 2 months to fix. To avoid such problems they produce prototypes to test them and results are pretty good - Newag 19WE (which has a prototype) is the most reliable Polish EMU, it's really close to Stadler Flirt. Now Newag is testing the prototype of their first tram.
PS. Two things about Pesa:
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