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Opel sold to Magna
« on: 10 September 2009, 14:16:36 »
Just been announced.
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #1 on: 10 September 2009, 14:22:24 »
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #2 on: 10 September 2009, 14:41:23 »
But afaik GM are keeping VX,hows that gonna work then ? :-/
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #3 on: 10 September 2009, 14:49:04 »
Cant can it?? Vectra etc are built in Russelheim??
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #4 on: 10 September 2009, 14:59:14 »
Unless VX cars become rebadged versions of U.S GM cars. :o :o.......that would be even worse than they are now. ;D
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #5 on: 10 September 2009, 14:59:38 »
"Magna has pledged to keep all German plants open"

Bye bye 5500 jobs in the UK then. Thanks to our lax employment rules it is bound to be the UK that suffers, and I thought the germans agreed to not being protectionist  >:(
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #6 on: 10 September 2009, 15:00:34 »
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But afaik GM are keeping VX,hows that gonna work then ? :-/

Dont think so Albs.
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #7 on: 10 September 2009, 15:01:33 »
Just seen it on the news,VX and Opel sold to Magna,earlier this morning it said that GM were not selling VX. ::)
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #8 on: 10 September 2009, 15:07:37 »
a great shame! still hopefully magna drop the Chevrolet rebading of the Daewoo and rename them trabant or something and only sell them in rusky land
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #9 on: 10 September 2009, 17:15:01 »
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"Magna has pledged to keep all German plants open"

Bye bye 5500 jobs in the UK then. Thanks to our lax employment rules it is bound to be the UK that suffers, and I thought the germans agreed to not being protectionist  >:(
The prick we have in charge of manufacturing, that useless lame pillock Lord Mandelson, is hell bent on destroying all manufacturing in the UK, and always has been. He is not, therefore, interested in saving Vauxhall (or any other manufacturing company for that matter) jobs.

Another large UK manufacturing company secured a £200m loan from the EU to develop new techniques and products, but Mandelson tried blocking it unless he got a 25% bribe cut. 1st class corrupt tosser.
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #10 on: 10 September 2009, 17:33:23 »
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"Magna has pledged to keep all German plants open"

Bye bye 5500 jobs in the UK then. Thanks to our lax employment rules it is bound to be the UK that suffers, and I thought the germans agreed to not being protectionist  >:(
The prick we have in charge of manufacturing, that useless lame pillock Lord Mandelson, is hell bent on destroying all manufacturing in the UK, and always has been. He is not, therefore, interested in saving Vauxhall (or any other manufacturing company for that matter) jobs.

Another large UK manufacturing company secured a £200m loan from the EU to develop new techniques and products, but Mandelson tried blocking it unless he got a 25% bribe cut. 1st class corrupt tosser.
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That is just wrong, I just hope and pray (although not religious) the next general election, elects somebody with the cajunas to put a stop to all this.
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #11 on: 10 September 2009, 17:40:19 »
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Just seen it on the news,VX and Opel sold to Magna,earlier this morning it said that GM were not selling VX. ::)

yep - this morning the news was vauxhall was staying with gm - must have been a deal cobbled together at the last minute - my guess is they'll asset strip the UK plants once any ongoing contracts are complete - doesn't look good  :(
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #12 on: 10 September 2009, 17:43:31 »
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Just seen it on the news,VX and Opel sold to Magna,earlier this morning it said that GM were not selling VX. ::)

yep - this morning the news was vauxhall was staying with gm - must have been a deal cobbled together at the last minute - my guess is they'll asset strip the UK plants once any ongoing contracts are complete - doesn't look good  :(
German government are pumping in loads of dosh, so it stands to reason Vauxhall plants are toast.
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #13 on: 10 September 2009, 18:28:45 »
just seen it on the news, vx and opel to be sold, and is the deal the uk plants dreaded and the unions where working to avoid, hence the cloak and dagger to keep uk staff happy as long as possible i guess.
As said, the deal involves keeping German plants open. No mention of the same for uk.

Presume the end of vx and dealers will be re badged opel with massive cuts....?

You have to ask why uk didnt fight for jobs in the same way Ze Germanz did. Got their towels out again the tinkers. Cant blame them this time though, we snooze again.
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Re: Opel sold to Magna
« Reply #14 on: 10 September 2009, 18:41:58 »
Sold to Magna - was it an 'incider' deal? :D
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