{"id":897,"date":"2009-09-10T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T13:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2018-01-11T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:00:11","slug":"magna-wins-the-competition-for-opel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/magna-wins-the-competition-for-opel\/","title":{"rendered":"Magna wins the competition for Opel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German government has settled on Canada&#8217;s Magna as the winner in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/8247971.stm\" target=\"_blank\">bidding for Opel<\/a> (GM&#8217;s European presence, including Britain&#8217;s Vauxhall):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, there had been rumours that GM could be planning to try to keep control of its European arm.<\/p>\n<p>Magna was the German government&#8217;s preferred bidder. The decision must be approved by the Opel Trust, which is due to hold a press conference shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Magna has pledged to keep all German plants open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very pleased about the decision that&#8217;s been made and it is along the lines that the federal government has been advocating,&#8221; Chancellor Merkel said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s also along the lines that the employers and the employees of Opel wanted.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/GM_Europe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/GM_Europe.jpg\" alt=\"GM_Europe\" title=\"GM_Europe\" width=\"466\" height=\"362\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/GM_Europe.jpg 466w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/GM_Europe-150x116.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German government has settled on Canada&#8217;s Magna as the winner in the bidding for Opel (GM&#8217;s European presence, including Britain&#8217;s Vauxhall): Earlier, there had been rumours that GM could be planning to try to keep control of its European arm. Magna was the German government&#8217;s preferred bidder. The decision must be approved by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62,1118],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-europe","category-germany","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-et","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41701,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/41701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}