[GoinManta]

Now that GM is out of bankruptcy.. and Opel wasnt touched during those preceedings (which is what I think this whole thing was about)...

I think GM is playing a switcheroo and not going to sell Opel. It made no sense that they would.. what made sense was selling it to buffer it from the North American operations bankruptcy filings.. Now that is over, and they had a "Deal" to sell Opel (so it wasn't affected by the bankruptcy), they have no reason to sell it.

Why would they.. if Chrysler was shot gun married to Fiat for thier "Small car technology" why the heck would GM want to get rid of thier "small car technology" i.e. Opels engineering dept.. ? Not only that their foothold in Eastern Europe and Russia..

You combine that with Penske taking over Saturn (which was already only selling rebadged Opels).. you have Saturn continuing to do what they have been doing.. (Selling rebadged Opels ) it all works for GM.. and now makes more sense than it did a few months ago.

Charles