Comments on: Late Monday Snippets

By: Robin Capper

Robin Capper — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:12:50 +0000

Seems Fiat are crawling back into the black without GM ownership, although the parting gift was a help. Maybe Saab without GM would not be so bad. Seems to me GM have little clue what to do with Saab anyway.

By: Dinger

Dinger — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:31:57 +0000

I do beleive that the extra production in Trollhattan is to come from the Cadillac BLS, a Euro only FWD’er that is will be the entry level model under the CTS.

Cadillac, made by Trolls

By: TuuSaR

TuuSaR — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:42:13 +0000

Has to remember when looking into that Br_a-nd-im_en-si-o^n-s that no person actually comes here reading anything, its all about information automation, what somebody finally gets infront of his nose, might be hard to estimate.

Btw. Swade have you seen this video yet:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3971355278628963916

By: ctm

ctm — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:07:49 +0000

Ny Teknik is not _the_ magazin you first think of when it comes to correctly analyzing the auto industry. They are a general magazin for technolgies, and in Sweden that means much telecom, medicin, heavy industries (mining, forrest)… It’s just a bunch of facts they fond on the net and put together as an “article”.

More fun this week was the quote from Mr. Forster (head of GM Europe) that the plant in Trollhättan could produce 250.000 cars by 2010… Now, if we could just try to figure out what models they are planning to build there…

By: Mats

Mats — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:42:57 +0000

#8 is:Stopped cars. LAst year GM proclaimed that they had decided to redistribute the development resources from RWD vehicles to large SUV’s. Then oilprices went up and SUV’s are collecting dust at the dealers while customers stand in line to buy smaller RWD cars from Ford and Chrysler.