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		<title>Bankrupt Chrysler signs Fiat deal</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/04/30/bankrupt-chrysler-signs-fiat-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chrysler is bankrupt. To a British ear that sounds pretty stark, but in the US it means something rather different &#8211; &#8216;chapter 11 bankruptcy&#8216;. It will keep operating, but it will be able to fend off its creditors and try to renegotiate its debts.
In Chrysler&#8217;s case, the US Government wanted to force 46 major creditors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=932&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be fooled by the new-car carrot</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/04/03/dont-be-fooled-by-the-new-car-carrot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you buy a new car if the Government gave you £2000 to do it? In Germany that&#8217;s roughly what you get, provided you scrap one that&#8217;s over nine years old. It has meant sales of small cars over there are surging, despite the economic crash. So you won&#8217;t be surprised to learn that dealers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=883&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>66</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Chrysler ordered into bed with Fiat</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/03/31/chrysler-ordered-into-bed-with-fiat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alfa Romeo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bail-out]]></category>
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If GM got a bit of a kicking fom the Obama administration, how about Chrysler? The President’s team has said it doesn’t believe Chrysler can survive alone, so if it doesn’t finalise the deal with Fiat within the next 30 days, it gets no more Government money. Which would inevitably leave it bankrupt.
So, for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=875&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</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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		<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>Separated at birth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dunno if it was just me, but I had a strange sense of deja vu when I saw the Nissan Qazana show car at Geneva 2009. I use the French term advisedly. Clink the &#8216;read more&#8217; link to see why. 
OK, it ain&#8217;t identical with the Citroen C-Cactus but you&#8217;ve got to admit it looks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=777&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The tidal wave sweeps all before it</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/01/30/the-tidal-wave-sweeps-all-before-it/</link>
		<comments>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/01/30/the-tidal-wave-sweeps-all-before-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BMW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boardroom spy]]></category>
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Another wave of catastrophic car-company news this morning, as Honda closes its Swindon plant for a staggering four months. Look around the industry and you see that even the golden boys are in the cack.
These are the companies regarded as impeccably run because they have strong brands. They build high-profit premium cars, or very green [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=651&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>American small cars: way to go</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/01/12/america-shows-the-way-with-small-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beware seeing every car at the Detroit show through the lens of recession. It wasn&#8217;t until about four months ago that anyone saw this crisis coming. It takes at least six months to do a concept and two years for a production car. So everything here was conceived in pre-meltdown times.

And yet here&#8217;s a thing. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=362&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit show: death or glory?</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/01/12/detroit-show-death-or-glory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Detroit show, where the spotlight&#8217;s firmly on GM and Chrysler. Chapter one of a Great American Comeback story &#8211; or an obituary? As far as I can see it&#8217;s one of each. GM might just pull through, but Chrysler doesn&#8217;t stand an earthly.

Sure there are still colossal financial woes at GM, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=350&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>2008 in review: a game of two halves</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2008/12/31/2008-in-review-a-game-of-two-halves/</link>
		<comments>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2008/12/31/2008-in-review-a-game-of-two-halves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems incredible now we look back on it, but 2008 started in a fairly ordinary way. The Foreman spent his time trying to work out what the car companies would do next. By the year&#8217;s end, it was all about working out which one of them would survive.

The year began, as 2007 had closed, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=338&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Phew &#8211; for now</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2008/12/19/phew-for-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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So after all the brinkmanship, the President stumped up the cash. But the bailout of GM and Chrysler comes with strict conditions. GM and Chrysler – and their workforces – will have to take deep cuts during the next three months, or the US Government will want its money back and GM will have to go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=331&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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