GM Europe CEO Carl-Peter Forster believes that Opel can be a profitable business again before 2013, he has told a German business newspaper.

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“The fact is our business is running well, our market share is rising and we have already sold 120,000 Insignia cars… we will do everything we can to make a profit before 2013,” he said in an interview with Bild daily.


He rejected any possibility of Opel going bust and said that the EUR300m emergency funding issued this week by the German government was enough to ‘shape our future’.

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