GM Appoints Former Volkswagen Exec To Head Troubled Opel

Last summer, General Motors’ European unit Opel made the surprise announcement that its chief, Karl-Friedrich Stracke, was being reassigned to a new role, and that its turnaround expert, Steve Girsky, would fill in as interim chief. Since then, we’ve seen Opel enter an alliance deal with France’s PSA Peugeot Citroen Group that…