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		<title>Saab-Koenigsegg Deal Falls Through</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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A press release [via sys-con.com] confirms that Koenigsegg has withdrawn from negotiations with General Motors over the sale of Saab. Fritz Henderson shares his disappointment:
We&#8217;re obviously very disappointed with the decision to pull out of the Saab purchase. Many have worked tirelessly over the past several months to create a sustainable plan for the future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spyker Relocates To Coventry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cammy Corrigan</dc:creator>
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Comedian Frankie Boyle once said &#8220;So the best tennis player in Britain is Scottish? I&#8217;m not up to speed on my Nostradamus but isn&#8217;t that one of the harbingers of the apocalypse or something?&#8221;. Well, here&#8217;s another unlikely scenario, manufacturing jobs flowing INTO the U.K. The BBC report that Dutch luxury car maker, Spyker, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opel Rescue Up To European Taxpayers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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General Motors made one point very clear, 100 percent clear, the restructuring plan could only be achieved when European member states with Opel plants give some financial help. So the plan works only with state aid. The idea that General Motors can finance this on its own was not shared by General Motors, this possibility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volvo Sale: Crown To Out-Bid Geely This Week?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/volvo-sale-crown-to-out-bid-geely-this-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thor Johnsen</dc:creator>
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For weeks now, the only realistic bid for Volvo has has come from the Chinese automaker Geely. They&#8217;ve been Fords&#8217; &#8220;preferred bidder&#8221; for about a month ago, and last week, Geely&#8217;s management were in meetings with Volvo&#8217;s unions, and with Volvo AB (commercial vehicle company) about the Volvo trademarks &#8211; which are owned 50/50 between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiat Downgraded: Marchionne Eying PSA?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cammy Corrigan</dc:creator>
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UBS has cut Fiat&#8217;s rating from &#8220;buy&#8221; to &#8220;neutral&#8221;. UBS cites its cautious views on car demand in Europe and Brazil as well as heavy trucks and machinery, the areas in which Fiat are strongest. UBS notes that Sergio Marchionne&#8217;s grand scenario of spinning off Fiat&#8217;s auto division is still the company&#8217;s goal, and PSA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM: US Taxpayer-Funded Opel Plans By Christmas</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/gm-us-taxpayer-funded-opel-plans-by-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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Automotive News [sub] reports that GM will rush out its $4.9b restructuring plan for Opel in December, as it seeks to ease worries on the continent about the fate of the troubled division. &#8220;Our plan is very similar to Magna&#8217;s. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s worse,&#8221; GM&#8217;s Nick Reilly told reporters near Opel&#8217;s largest plant in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Swedish Government: Saab&#8217;s Books Were Cooked</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/swedish-government-saabs-books-were-cooked/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/swedish-government-saabs-books-were-cooked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thor Johnsen</dc:creator>
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Looks like GM may have done some creative accounting after all &#8211; at least according to Swedish Government and their consulting firm KPMG. As we&#8217;ve reported the last couple of days, Saab&#8217;s rescue has been hanging by a thread due to questions around the company&#8217;s financial situation prior to the start of the financial crisis. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>EU Calls Opel Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/eu-calls-opel-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/eu-calls-opel-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bertel Schmitt</dc:creator>
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For Monday, November 23, EU Economy Commissar Günther Verheugen invited all EU Economy Ministers to come to Brussel to attend an Opel summit. GME’s new chief Nick Reilly will also attend, reports Unternehmer.de. The idea behind the meeting is anti-competitive: “The Commission is strictly against any bidding war with subsidies,” Verheugen said. Any government help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vauxhall Versus Opel?: Loans For Jobs Floated In Britain</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/vauxhall-versus-opel-loans-for-jobs-floated-in-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/vauxhall-versus-opel-loans-for-jobs-floated-in-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cammy Corrigan</dc:creator>
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GM Europe&#8217;s head, Nick Reilly, has suggested that the job losses at Vauxhall UK may not be as bad as was feared. Before GM did a U-turn with the sale of Vauxhall/Opel, Magna agreed with Vauxhall to cut 800 jobs, no forced redundancies, and keep the Luton and Ellesmere Port plants open. Then, GM realised [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fiat Doblo: My Tank Is Full</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fiat-doblo-my-tank-is-full/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fiat-doblo-my-tank-is-full/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Automotive News [sub] reports that the newest addition to Chrysler&#8217;s new Ram brand will be the Fiat Dobló, a compact van in the style of Ford&#8217;s Transit Connect. The latest generation Dobló has been previewed, and will go on sale in Europe early next year. The Rambló will hit the US market in 2012, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>GM Lost $5k On Every Saab Sold In The Last 8 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/gm-lost-5k-on-every-saab-sold-in-the-last-8-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/gm-lost-5k-on-every-saab-sold-in-the-last-8-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thor Johnsen</dc:creator>
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Swedish business site di.se has done some numbercrunching, and figured out that GM has lost SEK 35,000,- (eq aprox $ 5,100, at the current exchange rate) on each Saab sold the last 8 years. As many of TTAC&#8217;s readers have pointed out in various comments, GM never made money on Saab. Truth is; they lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSFW With Dutch Spy Box, Go To Jail</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/nsfw-with-dutch-spy-box-go-to-jail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/nsfw-with-dutch-spy-box-go-to-jail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bertel Schmitt</dc:creator>
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Dutch motorists can prepare themselves for spending up to four years in the slammer and to pay fines of more than $100,000 if they intend to tamper with the automotive equivalent of an electronic ankle bracelet which their government will put in their cars.

Dutch lawmakers approved the first “pay-as-you-drive” tax system in Europe. Beginning in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Saab Deal Going The Way Of Opel?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/saab-deal-going-the-way-of-opel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/saab-deal-going-the-way-of-opel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thor Johnsen</dc:creator>
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Saab has not had an easy path to salvation. The Koenigsegg Group has had to provide finances, agree to a price and conditions with GM, get loan from European Investment Bank (EIB),and  coax the Swedish Government into guaranteeing loans. Now there&#8217;s one more hurdle left, and it&#8217;s the same challenge that scuppered the Opel to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe In October: Clawing Back To Normal</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/europe-in-october-clawing-back-to-normal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/europe-in-october-clawing-back-to-normal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bertel Schmitt</dc:creator>
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In October 2008, new car sales in carpocalypse-affected Europe had dropped by 14.4 percent. A year later, the Old Country is slowly coming back to normal. In Europe as a whole, new car registrations grew by 11.2 percent over October in the previous year. This according to the latest statistic of the European Auto Manufacturers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch Treat: Pay Per Km Tax Approved In The Netherlands</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/dutch-treat-pay-per-k-tax-approved-in-the-netherlands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/dutch-treat-pay-per-k-tax-approved-in-the-netherlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bertel Schmitt</dc:creator>
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Worried about increasingly efficient cars and dwindling tax revenue at the pump, Dutch lawmakers approved the first “pay-as-you-drive” tax system in Europe. Of course, the dwindling revenue is not the official reason given. The official intent is “to protect the climate and to reduce traffic jams,” reports the Deutsche Welle. Now who can be against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM: Opel Can Be Independent But Not Global</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/gm-opel-can-be-independent-but-not-global/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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GM CEO Fritz Henderson&#8217;s promises of independence for Opel made the right noises, but they carefully avoided any discussion of the actual role GM envisions for its German division within its global strategy. The latest updates seem to indicate that GM will keep Opel for its engineering expertise, but that the brand will be subordinate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fritz and Franz On Opel&#8217;s Autonomy</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fritz-and-franz-on-opels-autonomy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fritz-and-franz-on-opels-autonomy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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Opel&#8217;s union boss and chief thorn-in-the-side for GM&#8217;s attempt at regaining control of its European division, Klaus Franz, recently met with CEO Fritz Henderson and is telling German media that &#8220;Henderson agrees that Opel should be led back to its traditional strengths in Europe, with a high level of independence  and autonomy within the GM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Tries To Salvage Opel-Magna-Sberbank-GAZ Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/gm-tries-to-salvage-opel-magna-sberbank-gaz-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/gm-tries-to-salvage-opel-magna-sberbank-gaz-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bertel Schmitt</dc:creator>
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Wasn’t losing their precious intellectual property to the Rooskies the biggest beef GM had with the Opel-Magna-Sperbank deal? Wasn’t it clear that Sperbank wanted to sell its shares to GAZ? Wasn’t GM trying to block this deal by inserting a buyback clause? Now that GM has decided to keep Opel, those fears have evaporated. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More GM-Euro Double-Trouble-Speak: Double Chevrolet Sales!</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/more-gm-euro-double-trouble-speak-double-chevrolet-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/more-gm-euro-double-trouble-speak-double-chevrolet-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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If the managers at Opel are feeling a little queasy today, this should have them running for the Alka Seltzer (or whatever Germans use). As if to throw (more) gas on the conflagration raging at Opel, Brent Dewar, vice president of Chevrolet, announced at the Reuters Autos Summit in Detroit that GM is targeting sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Of A Chinese Car Salesman: European Brilliance Importer Crashes</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/death-of-a-chinese-car-salesman-european-brilliance-importer-crashes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/death-of-a-chinese-car-salesman-european-brilliance-importer-crashes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bertel Schmitt</dc:creator>
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Did we mention that China’s Brilliance hasn’t been doing so, well, brilliantly? The joint venture partner of BMW, and maker of supposedly homegrown Ersatz-BMWs (the sight of which makes any BMW engineer reach for a bottle of Jägermeister) had racked up losses to the tune of 9b Chinese Yuan ($1.3b) in the first half of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volt Birth Watch 171: Weber Bails</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/volt-birth-watch-171-weber-bails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
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Frank Weber, the man in charge of GM&#8217;s electric vehicle line, will be leaving GM for a senior leadership at the soon-to-be-sold (or not?) Opel. Weber previously worked on Opel&#8217;s development of GM&#8217;s global mid-size (Epsilon II) vehicle line, before becoming the head of GM&#8217;s electric vehicle development program in March 2007. Weber is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opel Workers: Can We Do This Deal Already?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/opel-workers-can-we-do-this-deal-already/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/opel-workers-can-we-do-this-deal-already/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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GM&#8217;s sale of Opel to Magna/Sberbank is being held up by the European Union, which is looking into whether the German government unfairly favored Magna&#8217;s bid. But while the interregnum plays out (the EU will decide by November 27th), GM has plenty of time to develop a case of seller&#8217;s remorse. After all, GM&#8217;s VP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Diesel &#8217;till You&#8217;re Blue(Motion) In The Face</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/save-diesel-till-youre-bluemotion-in-the-face/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/save-diesel-till-youre-bluemotion-in-the-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cammy Corrigan</dc:creator>
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Say what you want about the Prius (and no doubt you will) but it is a car that ushered in a new era of automotive history. It made saving fuel and being &#8220;green&#8221; trendy. When automotive history is written, the Toyota Prius will be along side cars like the Ford Model-T, The Citroen DS, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild-Ass Rumor Of The Day: LX-Platformed Lancia, Maserati Planned</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wild-ass-rumor-of-the-day-lx-platformed-lancia-maserati-planned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wild-ass-rumor-of-the-day-lx-platformed-lancia-maserati-planned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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Well, we&#8217;ve been here before. A while back we&#8217;d heard that an Alfa 169-branded, LX-platformed sedan would be built at Brampton for the US market, with a rumored $62k price point. That story seemed a bit iffy at the time, although it wouldn&#8217;t surprise us to hear it announced officially at Chrysler&#8217;s forthcoming five-year plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saab Going Upmarket?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/saab-going-upmarket/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/saab-going-upmarket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thor Johnsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>
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Swedish daily Dagens Industri claims to have their hands on Koenigsegg Group&#8217;s secret market-plan for Saab. The one they used to secure a 600 million Euro loan from European Investment Bank. And they are aiming&#8230;upmarket! The ultimate goal is, by 2016, to establish a true luxury brand, and by then have such exclusive and expensive [...]]]></description>
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