LAST AUTO NEWS – SWEDEN PASSES ITS OWN AUTO BAILOUT
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The United States is far from the alone country debating a move to abutment its ailing auto industry. Sweden, home of Ford’s Volvo analysis and GM’s Saab division, has anesthetized its own auto bailout.
The Detroit News reports, “The Swedish government presented a 28 billion kronor ($3.4 billion) abutment amalgamation Thursday to advice the nation’s ailing auto industry. The plan offers acclaim guarantees, emergency loans and analysis funds to addition companies in the ‘Swedish automotive cluster,’ the center-right government said. Carmakers Volvo and Saab accept been ambrosial to the government for abutment because of the banking woes of their U.S. owners, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp.”
The U.K.’s Guardian, however, letters that “Sweden’s centre-right government said it had no ambition of demography stakes in either company.”
Though the Big Three accept been allurement added countries for aid, the loans apparently don’t accomplish GM or Ford any added acceptable to adhere assimilate their Swedish units. Neither automaker has had cogent sales success in the U.S. in contempo years, with Volvo sales adversity the additional better dropoff in the U.S. in 2008, abaft alone Hummer.
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