General Motor’s Opel-Vauxhall subsidiary in Europe finally has some good news to report. Its market share in the first four months of 2013 improved for the first time in a long time. As overall sales in Western Europe slid 7.0 per cent from January through April to 3.9 million, Opel-Vauxhall’s only fell 5.9 per cent […]
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Opel-Vauxhall Pulls Out Of Skid As Market Share Stabilises
But Long Term Viability Still Questioned “Opel and Vauxhall have lost $18 billion since 1999” “GM hasn’t got long to turn it round; the next two or three years will be decisive” It’s all gone quiet for now at General Motors Europe and its Opel and Vauxhall subsidiaries, thanks to some mildly positive news about […]
Peugeot-Citroen Talks With Opel-Vauxhall Fail To Excite
Peugeot Link With Mazda, Maruti or Suzuki favoured At Least Talks Show Peugeot-Citroen Knows It Has A Problem GM Might Take Small Stake In Peugeot Almost as soon as news hit that Peugeot-Citroen and Opel Vauxhall might form some kind of an alliance, the nay-sayers broke cover saying it wasn’t a smart to link two […]
GM Will Stick With Europe, But Sharpen Scalpel Again
“GM has done the fundamentals, now it has to hang in there” Europe’s Financial Crisis Is Hitting All Mass Car Makers. Previous downturns didn’t lead to a crisis, but now it is different and will now lead to a shakeout Until about six weeks ago GM Europe’s Opel-Vauxhall was making steady progress towards sunlit uplands, […]
GM Europe Could Lose $600 Million In 2011, $1 Billion In 2012
Banker Says Situation Unsustainable; Sees Losses Through 2016 Possibilities Include Reopening Union Contract, “Contained Bankruptcy” But Others Point To Action Already Taken, Urge It To Hang In There “GM would be better off with a profitable three per cent share of Europe than a loss making eight per cent” GM’s attempt to fix its loss-making […]
Opel-Vauxhall Needs Radical Action To Stem Losses – report
Opel-Vauxhall Needs Radical Action To Stem Losses – report German Union Contract Might Have To Be Reopened Losses Could Hit $600 million in 2011, $1 billion in 2012 GM’s attempt to fix its loss-making European subsidiary Opel-Vauxhall are failing, and drastic measures like reopening contract talks with labor unions are required if the drain on […]
Opel-Vauxhall Positives Outweigh Negatives For GM
“GM Would Rather Kill It Than Sell It To Chinese Car Manufacturers” If GM Spoke Up For Opel-Vauxhall, The Rumours Would Soon Die “Profitability Of GM Europe Is Whatever GM Accountants Want It To Be” “Opel is one of the weakest links in GM’s global strategy, but at the same time is one of its […]
Vauxhall – How To Lose Friends And Alienate People
If Justice System Can Say “Life” And Not Mean It, Why Not Vauxhall? Vauxhall–Opel has turned a great marketing idea into a public relations disaster. The European subsidiary of General Motors realised that Hyundai and Kia were making huge inroads into their sales by offering fabulous guarantees. Kia’s is particularly mouth-watering – 7 years or […]
Investors Said To Eye GM’s Saab, Opel-Vauxhall, But Why?
The European media is full of stories about suitors lining up to buy a piece of General Motors Europe’s Saab and Opel-Vauxhall subsidiaries, but nowhere can you find a compelling reason why investors would want to buy into these perennial loss makers. The Financial Times, in an item headlined “GM’s European arms lures investors”, says […]