Every week for months now, I expect to be writing a small obituary for Saab, gone to join the likes of Pontiac, Saturn, Oldsmobile, Rover, Austin et al in brand name heaven and, every week, another rabbit gets pulled out of the hat. Everything that happened this week – and previously – is in here.
We’re also still keeping an eye on the effects of the Thai floods with regular updates as they come in. All our coverage is here.
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Interesting to see a former Chrysler CEO pop up again, this time reportedly at Fisker.
This time of year is a time for lists and the guys at Edmunds came up with one – 100 worst cars of all time. For a bit of balance, their ‘100 best cars’ is also worth a look, and debate, being, of course, rather US-centric.
Industrial niggle continued at Fiat, you have to wonder whether this is smart thinking by unions in the face of ongoing suggestions Marchionne might relocate the automaker to the US.
On the research side, we’ve been looking at automated manuals, not my favourite type of transmission but one which is quite common here in Europe.
And we learned of a new tie-up between GM and BMW, expected to be announced early in 2012.
Speaking of BMW, the UK unit hosted an interesting event for media last night in London, with plenty of emphasis on its upcoming London Olympics 2012 sponsorship. They also showed off a couple of new cars – the Mini Roadster and the one I’m still drooling over – the 6 series Gran Coupe, a Merc CLS challenger.
This is the last TWTW of the year, thanks to me sneaking in an extra week’s Christmas holiday. All at just-auto appreciate your support and wish you Merry Christmas, Happy New Year or just Happy Holidays, as appropriate.
Graeme Roberts, Deputy Editor, just-auto.com
