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...He will be replaced by Michael Lohscheller, the former chief of Stellantis brand Opel, who joined Nikola in February as president....
...We were also struck by the resilience of the triple-B investment-grade bond rating floor....
...co-founder of door2door, explained that his company was working to connect public sector transport systems, such as subways, with on-demand pooling services so consumers can more efficiently move from A to B....
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...Vauxhall, Opel’s UK arm, issued an alert this week over fears that the second-generation “B” version of the car could catch fire....
...Dieter Zetsche (pictured), chairman of the Daimler management board and head of Mercedes-Benz, congratulated the local workforce on their “first-class” record for producing more than 40,000 B-Class cars...
...In Hungary, Mercedes-Benz’s new €800m factory in Kecskemet began production earlier this year, principally of the new version of the B-Class compact model....
...Infineon, the chipmaker, MAN, the truckmaker and General Motors’ Opel car unit have also indicated their intention to make use of the Kurzarbeit programme....
...In Hungary, Mercedes last month began making its B-Class compact in a new $1bn factory....
...The tie-up will give GM and PSA, which have joint sales of about 12m, global industry leadership in production of “B” compact and “D” upper-middle segment cars....
...Among other carmakers, Sergio Marchionne, Fiat’s chief executive, has said that he was looking for a partner to produce very small “A” and “B” cars....
...The main reasons were a slump in production at the Fiat factory in Tychy and at Opel’s plant in Gliwice, combined with the ending of production at the antiquated FSO factory in Warsaw....
...Fiat’s chief executive Sergio Marchionne has said he wants a partner to make very small “A” and “B” cars....
...Sergio Marchionne, Fiat’s chief executive, told the Financial Times last month that the company was looking for a partner to build very small and small “A” and “B” cars on the continent, where it lost about...
...“Combining the two from a product perspective brings very little new,” said Erich Hauser of Credit Suisse, who pointed out that the two companies both specialise in small and midsize “B” and “C” cars in...
...Mr Marchionne confirmed that Fiat was still looking for a European partner to share costs in very small and small “A” and “B” segment cars....
...The joint platform will build small, lightweight “B” segment cars and be equally funded by the French and US manufacturers, he said, and launch its first cars “slightly after 2016”....
...However, Mr Reilly has said he still “fully expect[ed]” to get the “right answer” from Berlin and was as a result “not working on a Plan B.”....
...“I am not working on a Plan B,” Mr Reilly said. “I fully expect we will get the right answer.”...
...Magna made an unsuccessful bid for General Motors’ Opel-Vauxhall division last year with an eye on Russian expansion....
...Mr Marchionne failed in a bid to acquire Opel from General Motors last year and join it with Fiat Auto and Chrysler....
...But they maintain control through their ownership of Class B stock with 300 votes a share....
...B ecause of his difficult financial situation, the Russian oligarch last year had to sell a minority stake in Magna he acquired in 2007 for $1.54bn....
...Mr Marchionne wants to merge the Fiat and Opel small “B” and midsize “C” car production and engine operations, at a cost of about 8,000-9,000 jobs....
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