So dismal is its situation that General Motors is ready to cede control of GM Europe – mainly Opel and Vauxhall – in effect for nothing, provided a new parent pledges to invest €500m. The disclosure comes after Germany made clear it would not cough up direct state aid, in spite of huge pressure from GM, but would provide some of the €3.3bn loan guarantees GM demanded from Germany and other European states. All this might explain why half a dozen financial and strategic buyers are said to be in early-stage talks.
通用汽車(General Motors)的處境是如此凄慘，以至于它準備放棄對通用汽車歐洲(GM Europe)——主要是指歐寶(Opel)和沃克斯豪爾(Vauxhall)——的控股權而幾乎不求回報，唯一的條件是新的母公司要承諾投資5億歐元。在此消息公開前，德國政府聲明，盡管通用汽車對它施加了巨大壓力，但它不會向其提供直接政府援助。不過，德國政府將根據通用汽車向德國及其它歐洲國家提出的要求，向其提供33億歐元貸款擔保中的一部分。所有這一切都能解釋，為何據稱有數家金融與戰略買家與其展開了初期談判。