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As West Europe’s car market saw the 6th successive rise in a row, with February sales up 6.1 per cent, Opel-Vauxhall stands out as one of February’s most notable gainers. In pin-sharp contrast, AID’s exclusively compiled figures reveal that both the long-conquering Volkswagen brand and Korea’s Hyundai-Kia are February’s two biggest losers During the recent years of famine in West Europe’s badly battered car sales arena, GM’s European Opel-Vauxhall offshoot had been written off as a basket case. However, the company’s GM masters in the US, confronted with the far-reaching decision whether to throw in the towel or put some serious effort behind its troubled European offshoot, have clearly given the nod to stage a serious comeback. That at least is the impression from February’s car sales picture in Western Europe, which shows GM’s Opel-Vauxhall division as one of the market’s most notable gainers, according to AID’s exclusively compiled February car sales figures. +13.8%
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