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REPORT: Lutz to step in as interim Opel chairman

Just hours before General Motors announced that it wasn't going to sell Opel, GM Europe head Carl-Peter Forster said publicly that Opel would be better off under the control of Magna. Talk about bad timing. Full Article at Autoblog

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