GERMANY: Chinese Opel buy strategically sensible

Author: just-auto.com editorial team | 27 May 2009

An acquisition of Opel by Beijing Automotive Industry Corp (BAIC), the fourth interested party that did not make it before the deadline for the official bids, would be strategically sensible, experts have said.

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