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Like the Renaissance Center mothership, GM's European subsidiary Opel is also in a heap of trouble. The company has said it needs €3.3 billion ($4.1B) to survive. More »
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The company all about showing how safe their cars are with the so-jarring-you'll-vomit commercials showed this week how un-safe they can be with things like plans for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's armored limousine. The plans for Merkel's un-pimped, yet stylishly bullet-resistant ride, along with her predecessor Gerhard Schr der and the leader of the Social Democrat party, Kurt Beck, were on laptops stolen on September 21 from the offices of a distribution center in Teltow, eastern Germany, run by VW and its luxury auto unit Audi. Although investigators think the burglars were ordinary criminals only interested in stealing expensive computer equipment rather than the sensitive data on the laptop's hard drive platters, the police probably didn't have to surrender to the press this valuable nugget of information: More »
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