In November 2007 it agreed to sell its Bobcat mini-excavator business, plus a couple of other divisions, to Doosan Infracore, a South Korean firm, for $4.9 billion.

• 举例来说，通用汽车给它的悍马找新的“驿站”就可能会遇到麻烦。由于油价飙升，这些身形庞大、如饥似渴的汽车已经不合时宜，通用汽车决定卖掉它们。