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In a couple of blog posts a year ago I ranted about the foolishness of allowing General Motors to sell Opel. American car factories needed not to sell their efficient small-car divisions, but to import that technology.

Now that we, as taxpayers, effectively own the company, we can breathe a great sigh of relief that GM is going to do the sensible thing and keep Opel's fuel-efficient engines in the family. In fact the new Buick LaCrosse is built on an Opel platform. Good move. Now let's see a hybrid version.