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	<title>The Foreman - BBC Top Gear &#187; Opel</title>
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		<title>Vauxhall: is it MG-Rover all over again?</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/08/11/vauxhall-is-it-mg-rover-all-over-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s depressing to be reminded all over again today of the sad and shabby history of MG-Rover. Much more sad is that it looks dangerously likely that history might repeat itself with Vauxhall-Opel.
BMW unloaded MG-Rover in early 2000. It was looking at bids from venture capital firms including Apax and Alchemy. Both planned a slimming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1133&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Koenigsaab is born</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/16/koenigsaab-is-born/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until this morning I couldn’t reliably spell Koenigsegg. It was a little company of fewer than 50 employees making fewer than 20 cars a year. Now it has effectively taken over Saab.
Accepted wisdom is that to compete long-term, smallish car companies (of which Saab is one) need to be in the hands of bigger car [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1026&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>118</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Vauxhall: culling the weak</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/05/vauxhall-culling-the-weak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Master</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Foreman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This economic chokehold on the motoring industry is squeezing air out of everyone, but it’s doing us a great service at the same time. It’s culling the weak. Separating the wheat from the chaff.
I have enjoyed a Terminator-like emotional response to the recent fortunes of Vauxhall, a brand that has always left me the cadaver [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1020&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vauxhall-Opel gets its new owner</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/01/vauxhall-opel-gets-its-new-owner/</link>
		<comments>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/01/vauxhall-opel-gets-its-new-owner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/?p=1001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Foreman called it wrong. I thought Fiat would get control of Vauxhall and Opel, but the giant Canadian car-components-maker Magna won. I was looking at it from an automotive point of view, and the result was skewed by politics.
Once it was clear Opel-Vauxhall’s American parent GM started sliding towards today’s bankruptcy, GM had to cast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1001&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Vauxhall/Opel/Saab: the die is nearly cast</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/05/15/vauxhallopelsaab-the-die-is-nearly-cast/</link>
		<comments>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/05/15/vauxhallopelsaab-the-die-is-nearly-cast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 09:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The band is about to stop in the big game of Manufacturer Musical Chairs, and Fiat – having already snapped up Chrysler – looks set to get its hands on GM Europe too.

That’s Vauxhall, Opel and Saab, in other words. Though it’s possible that Saab will be sold off separately, Fiat is keen to acquire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=971&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Finally &#8211; a head rolls</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/03/30/finally-a-head-rolls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cadillac]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/?p=858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has showed his teeth. He&#8217;s told the boss of GM to resign. Presumably he wouldn&#8217;t have done that unless he was about to give GM the billions in loans the company is asking for. The president needed to get some collateral, didn&#8217;t he?
Rick Wagoner was never a car guy. I met him [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=858&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Sacrificing Vauxhall/Opel?</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/03/11/sacrificing-vauxhall-opel/</link>
		<comments>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/03/11/sacrificing-vauxhall-opel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top politicians are lining up to proclaim that Vauxhall/Opel isn&#8217;t worth saving. Which is mortally wounding for the company because without billions of cash from European governments, it will go bankrupt within weeks.
Vauxhall/Opel has said it needs £3bn state aid in Europe. That&#8217;s in addition to the plea by its American parent for eight times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=815&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>92</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>GM looking to cut Opel/Vauxhall loose</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/03/04/gm-looking-to-cut-opelvauxhall-loose/</link>
		<comments>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/03/04/gm-looking-to-cut-opelvauxhall-loose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Fritz Henderson, GM’s Chief Operating Officer, has announced plans to split Opel and Vauxhall into a separate division that can then be opened up for outside investment. GM has also announced that it is looking for £2.9 billion in state aid from countries across Europe to keep the various operations afloat, or risk losing some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=795&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>If GM goes, what about Vauxhall?</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2008/11/24/if-gm-goes-what-about-vauxhall/</link>
		<comments>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2008/11/24/if-gm-goes-what-about-vauxhall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of people have asked me this question recently: if GM is bankrupted, what happens to Vauxhall and Opel? And I&#8217;ve asked lots of people, including GM high-ups. No-one seems to know, or to be willing to say.
It&#8217;s likely any GM bankruptcy would be slowly executed. Opel and Vauxhall are separate entities from the American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=288&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
	
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