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Europe’s car troubles in the new year

Trouble in Europe means local automakers are starting 2013 with a whimper instead of a bang.

Happy New Year

Western Europe's economic woes

Peugeot is bleeding

Peugeot bailout snarled in red tape

An Opel payoff for Peugeot is years away

A Peugeot-Opel merger in the works?

Renault is hurting too

Even Russia's got the blues

But in Wolfsburg, VW rolls on

Meanwhile in Munich...

A former Ford Europe CEO disgraced