Comments on: Will this Nice Lady Kill Opel?

By: TireGuy

TireGuy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:04:48 +0000

Bertel & Katie:
Neelie Kroes was sharp enough the last years anyway. Normally it cannot get much worse.

Bertel: I do not see this timeline. The EU e.g. approved a rescue loan for the German retail chain Quelle within a day. If one party is chosen for buying Opel, this will have already been aligned with the EU way before, or will get approval within a short time frame. I do not see this pending until November, no chance.

By: Cammy Corrigan

Cammy Corrigan — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:40:40 +0000

Folkdancer,

They fear women because secretly they know that we know more about cars than they do! ;O)

By: folkdancer

folkdancer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:35:42 +0000

I wonder what would happen if you threw a bucket of water on her? A pile of sugar?

Making someone from France the European Union’s Competition Commissioner sounds like a bad joke to me.

This European Union Commissioner, who happens to be a woman, is doing her job.

The countries who belong to the European Union have signed agreements that require them to operate a little like our States but not quite. The balance of how each member country can support industries within their borders is a delicate balance. How much can they support their workers but does this provide an unfair advantage for their manufacturers against the manufacturers in other member countries?

Lets wait and see how the commissioner’s rulings turn out. Incidentally, MB, Audi, and VW along with the French manufacturers might also like Opel to disappear.

Honestly, some of you guys seem to hate or fear women.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:39:18 +0000

Making someone from France the European Union’s Competition Commissioner sounds like a bad joke to me. If there’s one country in Europe that’s constantly doing its best to prevent a free market from happening it’s France. I mean they were the first to bail out their auto industry…cheeky bastards…

By: paris-dakar

paris-dakar — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:20:30 +0000

What a novel idea, eliminating overcapacity in a manufacturing based industry by allowing the least efficient and least attractive operations to fail.

LULZ that it looks to be a French Bureaucrat who makes this come to pass.

By: Banned User

Banned User — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:27:50 +0000

I wonder what would happen if you threw a bucket of water on her?

A pile of sugar?

By: TomH

TomH — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:02:40 +0000

PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) is analyzing the bids? Aren’t they the guys who failed to discover the missing $1B in the Satyam fiasco? I feel better already.

By: herb

herb — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:32:58 +0000

Stingray:

a) FIAT might be having no money and enough other problems with Chrysler, currently.

b) Of course, nothing is nice about this lady. But wait until Berlusconi sends his girls in to the rescue (check: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6418583.ece). They might even appear topless in public. Compare & imagine!

So, most of the problems are almost solved. already. Just don’t forget to buy two new cars a year to cope with this overproduction issues.

By: superbadd75

superbadd75 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:24:38 +0000

folkdancer +1. The auto industry is going through a little industrial evolution right now, only the strong will survive. There’s no need to have several automakers out there that are too large to be a “boutique” manufacturer, but too small to be truly mainstream. Government bailouts to car companies will likely prove to be a waste of money, no matter what country. I hate watching my tax money getting pissed down the drain.

By: Stingray

Stingray — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:01:33 +0000

What happened to Fiat?

And by the way, what’s nice about lady?

By: folkdancer

folkdancer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:00:52 +0000

All those people saying there is overcapacity in car manufacturing are absolutely correct.

All this effort to bail out car companies by the U.S., Canada, and Germany means that some of us taxpayers are going to be wasting a lot of money.