{"id":5289,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:28:52","slug":"carlos-ghosn-says-no-more-alliances-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5289","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Ghosn says no more alliances for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn doesn&#x27;t expect to see any more big auto alliances in the near future. That actually shouldn&#x27;t be a surprise when we&#x27;re seeing Detroit automakers actually unwinding their existing relationships. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">General Motors<\/a> looking tot unload part or all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/saab\/\">Saab<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/opel\/\">Opel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hummer\/\">HUMMER<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/saturn\/\">Saturn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/\">Ford<\/a> still trying to sell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volvo\/\">Volvo<\/a>, no other automakers appear to be much interested in getting larger right now. According to Ghosn, part of that is because there aren&#x27;t enough sufficiently large lines of credit available. Ghosn recently told an interviewer that last year, banks were lending automakers money at 3.5-4 percent, a figure that has now jumped to 9 percent if they can get a loan at all. Until financial markets stabilize, most automakers wil simply be doing whatever they can to remain solvent.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/article\/20090226\/ANE02\/902269996\/1128\">Automotive News Europe<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/03\/02\/carlos-ghosn-says-no-more-alliances-for-a-while\/<\/p>\n<p>2009-03-02T08:58:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn doesn&#x27;t expect to see any more big auto alliances in the near future. That actually shouldn&#x27;t be a surprise when we&#x27;re seeing Detroit automakers actually unwinding their existing relationships. With General Motors\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10096,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions\/10096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}