Storm Erupts Over Ex-Rental Vehicles
A huge storm has erupted in the UK over the highly misleading practice of hiding the identity of ex-rental cars unwittingly bought by the public from official dealerships, paying thousands of dollars more than their real worth.
The UK tabloid newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, reports that it is a widespread practice for car rental companies to register their cars under an ‘innocent’ business name, and then pass their used stock onto the public as a ‘one owner vehicle’.
GM Finally Settles On Buyer For Opel, Vauxhall
General Motors has finally annointed Magna International Inc., a Canadian car parts conglomerate and its Russian bank partner, Sberbank as the buyers for 55 percent of the shares in its European operation that produces Opel cars in Germany and Vauxhalls in the UK.
GM will still own a 35 percent stake and employees will own the remaining 10 percent.
Ten Worst Driving Habits
The experts at Driving Solutions gave us their thoughts on the ten worst driving habits that they’ve seen when teaching thousands of drivers.
They summarized the ten worst as follows:-
GM's European Sale Still Not Finalized
Part of General Motors bankruptcy resolution is to sell its two European factories, Vauxhall in the UK and Opel in Germany.
Despite the urgency, and many months after the initial expressions of interest closed, they still can’t get the deal across the line, even though there are two final bidders, RHJ International from Belgum and Magna, a Canadian car parts group.