Grab your partners for the Motor industry square dance!
June 4th 2009 13:27
In case you blinked in the last couple of weeks, the global motor industry has been doing a square dance, everone is boot scooting round in circles and ending up with new partners!
Grab your partners, here we go!
Autovaz better known as LADA are now the proud owners of Opel which will be interesting as the Russians have said they will move production to Russia. Ever driven a Russian car lately, build quality is not a concept that ever made its way behind the iron curtain. Open the drapes now someone!
Lada have been working on this for a while as can seen by this top secret new Opel prototype!
The biggest deal is of course Fiat and Chrysler. Quite what Fiat will do with Chrysler is another thing. Certainly Fiat offer a bewildering range of small cars in Europe, but none of them are certified for the United States market, this may take until 2011- 12 leaving Chrysler to struggle on with what they have now.
GM orphan Hummer has been sold to a Chinese company who at this stage are not even a car manufacturer, still trying to work that one out but money talks for GM and at this stage they don’t care where it comes from.
Another GM reject Saturn, may fare better as there are over fifteen interested parties. Legendary American car guru Roger Penske is looking at it but regardless of who gets it, the first thing they will have is do a deal with the Russians to gain access to the re-badged Opels they currently sell.
Head spinning yet? Autoloud's is!
Grab your partners, here we go!
Autovaz better known as LADA are now the proud owners of Opel which will be interesting as the Russians have said they will move production to Russia. Ever driven a Russian car lately, build quality is not a concept that ever made its way behind the iron curtain. Open the drapes now someone!
Lada have been working on this for a while as can seen by this top secret new Opel prototype!
The biggest deal is of course Fiat and Chrysler. Quite what Fiat will do with Chrysler is another thing. Certainly Fiat offer a bewildering range of small cars in Europe, but none of them are certified for the United States market, this may take until 2011- 12 leaving Chrysler to struggle on with what they have now.
GM orphan Hummer has been sold to a Chinese company who at this stage are not even a car manufacturer, still trying to work that one out but money talks for GM and at this stage they don’t care where it comes from.
Another GM reject Saturn, may fare better as there are over fifteen interested parties. Legendary American car guru Roger Penske is looking at it but regardless of who gets it, the first thing they will have is do a deal with the Russians to gain access to the re-badged Opels they currently sell.
Head spinning yet? Autoloud's is!
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