{"id":21114,"date":"2009-10-02T07:32:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T14:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21114"},"modified":"2009-10-02T21:53:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T04:53:41","slug":"automobile-misc-what-really-happened-penske-drops-saturn-bid-gm-says-division-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21114","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Misc. &#8211; What Really Happened? Penske Drops Saturn bid; GM Says Division Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, Roger Penske called off talks for his takeover of Saturn, almost certainly dooming yet another General Motors division.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For so many months, it&#8217;s seemed like a slam dunk for one of the auto world&#8217;s smartest and richest executives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Penske, whose racing team has won a record 15 Indy 500s, had come to agreement with GM to take over their once-vaunted Saturn brand as a distributor, keeping the stores open and workers making cars&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steve-parker\/what-really-happened-pens_b_305770.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Roger Penske called off talks for his takeover of Saturn, almost certainly dooming yet another General Motors division. For so many months, it&#8217;s seemed like a slam dunk for one of the auto world&#8217;s smartest and richest executives. Penske, whose racing team has won a record 15 Indy 500s, had come to agreement with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21191,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114\/revisions\/21191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}