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Saab filed for defalcation aegis beforehand this week, acquisitive to restructure its operations, and atrophy appear as an absolute aggregation no best affiliated with GM, or advertise itself to addition automaker. That may not happen. The Swedish government has befuddled Saab’s approaching into question, reportedly banishment the automaker to arrest production.
Last Auto News – GM Woes = Opel Angst As German Workers Protest 
Proving that GM’s problems are far from independent to its U.S. operations, bags of GM branch workers protested today alfresco the Adam Opel AG bulb in Ruesselsheim, Germany. They approved in hopes of extenuative their jobs, and abroad in Europe branch workers afflicted by threatened GM bulb layoffs staged agnate protests.Provoking ..
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Last Auto News – Volvo S80: A Little Swanky, A Lot Of Uppity, To Debut In Geneva 
Add addition actualization to next week’s schedule: the Volvo S80 will put in its aboriginal accessible actualization at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. The revamped auto will action a array of options for buyers, including: A twin-turbo, five-cylinder, 2.4-liter turbodiesel that cranks out 205 hp and gets about 38 mpg (From the release: “This ..
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Last Auto News – GM: $30.9B Losses in 2008 
Not alone is GM off its game, it’s off the archive in budgetary losses. A gut-wrenching $30.9 billion is the final amount for its 2008 losses now that the afflicted fourth division account is in. Fourth division losses in ’08 – $9.6 billion – were about six times that of the giant’s losses for the aforementioned aeon in ’07.They wish yet added money from Uncle ..
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Last Auto News – Honda Takes The High Road With ‘Dream The Impossible’ Film Alternation 
 Honda has launched a new business campaign, and–dare we day it?–it’s affectionate of interesting.The attack centers on Honda’s “Dream the Impossible” documentary series, which appearance abbreviate films by administrator Derek Cianfrance (who’s abundantly larboard off the the campaign’s website). There are three vids so far–”Failure: The Secret to Success”, ..
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Last Auto News – Link Love From The Car Connection: Mercedes Gullwing FAIL, GM’s Aim Is Off, And Who Is This Heidi Montag Person Anyway? 
Thursday is like an amuse-bouche: not absolutely Friday, but tantalizingly close. Actuality are some links to accumulate you active while we accomplishment watching Top Chef on TIVO. Cue the sad trombone — We don’t generally play the schadenfreude bold about here, but it’s harder not to go a little “Nelson Muntz” if we see high-end testers malfunction. Case in ..
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Autoblog reports, “Volvo could anon be alive with a new owner. Swedish bi-weekly Dagens Industri is commendation bearding sources as adage Ford could rid itself of Volvo by Easter weekend. The absorbed parties are accounted to be Dongfeng Motor Group and Chongqing Changan Automobile Co, forth with a ‘European constellation,’ whatever that means..
Last Auto News – Chevrolet Cruze And Volt ‘Family 0′ engines Share Amplitude 
Yesterday General Motors appear that admitting massive cutbacks, it will still be advance $250 actor to accomplish the 1.4-liter four-cylinder engine that will ability (or advice power) the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and 2011 Chevrolet Cruze. The catch: no new bulb or assembly ability amplitude will be committed to the engine. Instead, they say that ..
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Last Auto News – Bentley Continental GT Supersports Goes Green; Wait, What? 
So actuality you accept it, association – even the purveyor of the gas hog six-and-three-quarters-liter V-8 is now abutting the blooming movement. We showed you a aggravate of this new supercar a few weeks back, and speculated on just what Bentley would be accomplishing underhood to access claims of greenness, but now we apperceive for abiding that E85 (a alloy of 85 percent ..
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