11-20-2008, 11:02 AM | #1 |
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SolarWorld Offers $1.3B for Opel
SolarWorld wants to work on Opel cars to make them electric. In order to make this happen, SolarWorld has offered a lot of money to GM for its Opel division. Article is by Leftlane.
Discuss.
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11-20-2008, 11:03 AM | #2 |
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Think it will go? Cause i honestly think it might.
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11-20-2008, 11:06 AM | #3 |
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GM doesn't want to let go of Opel yet, but I can see it happening early next year.
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11-20-2008, 11:07 AM | #4 |
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I don't think it's going to happen.
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11-20-2008, 11:13 AM | #5 |
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It could go...but that 1.3B would only last....what.....almost a month???
I don't know if GM would go for that unless it meant getting them by until Obama took office (to get the 25B passed). |
11-20-2008, 11:16 AM | #6 |
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A big problem is that it wouldn't really last that long. Most of the transaction is credit.
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11-20-2008, 11:19 AM | #7 |
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^Exactly. That 1.3B could literally be paid out as soon as it comes in. What is more important to GM? The revenue from Opel? Or the immediate cash?
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11-20-2008, 11:23 AM | #8 |
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How can it go? Every car they make it a "world" car so they'd have a badge and nothing else...
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aww man. the opel manta used to be my favorite car when I was a child my aunt had both the A and the B model. i like to call it "germany's camaro". it even was connected to weird stereotype drivers: female, young, blonde hairdressers and guys in cowboy-boots. funnily enough my aunt was exactly that, a blonde hairdresser
people used to invent manta-jokes like: - "what's the biggest part of a manta? the boobs of the girl in the passenger seat!" - says one manta-driver to the other "hey i bought a dictionary" and the other one asks "so, already put it on the engine?" - "how does a manta-driver take a family picture? he puts the whole family in his car and passes a speeding-camera with 200km/h" a movie called "manta manta" was made in 1991: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102397/ here's two scenes from the movie (how do you imbed youtube videos again?): http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=cWj1nIu0Cfo http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=m7STU70l9HA beautiful cars! |
11-20-2008, 11:56 AM | #10 |
Autoblog says that they will give GM 1.3 Billion but will want 1 Billion in compensation for employees. So GM would get about 300 million in cash and 1 billion in credit but then the solar company wants to get 1 billion cash back. That does not make too much sense to me.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/19/g...-opel-from-gm/ |
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