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Shuttered Fiat Chrysler assembly plant in China fails to sell at auction for third time

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Employees at a Fiat and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. manufacturing plant in Changsha, Hunan Province, China, on June 28, 2012. The plant was shuttered in 2022 and has failed to sell at auction three times this year. (BLOOMBERG)
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Bloomberg
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September 19, 2024 02:08 PM

The administrator for Fiat Chrysler’s bankrupt Chinese venture failed to sell a jointly run auto factory in Southern China for a third time at auction, despite slashing the price by more than a third, indicating the lack of demand for internal combustion engines in the world’s largest car market.

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