{"id":29713,"date":"2010-03-28T18:43:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T01:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29713"},"modified":"2010-03-28T18:43:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T01:43:06","slug":"automobile-geely-signs-18-billion-deal-for-fords-volvo-car-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29713","title":{"rendered":"Automobile &#8211; Geely signs $1.8 billion deal for Ford&#8217;s Volvo car unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, China&#8217;s largest private-run car maker, agreed on Sunday to buy Ford Motor&#8217;s (F.N) Volvo car unit for $1.8 billion, the country&#8217;s biggest overseas auto purchase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The takeover underscores China&#8217;s arrival as a major force in the global auto industry and ends nearly two years of talks with Geely over Volvo &#8212; the last sale from Ford&#8217;s former premier group, which also held Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62Q1F520100328?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=innovationNews&amp;rpc=22&amp;sp=true\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, China&#8217;s largest private-run car maker, agreed on Sunday to buy Ford Motor&#8217;s (F.N) Volvo car unit for $1.8 billion, the country&#8217;s biggest overseas auto purchase. The takeover underscores China&#8217;s arrival as a major force in the global auto industry and ends nearly two years of talks with Geely over Volvo &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29713","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=29713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29714,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29713\/revisions\/29714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}