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1. The two largest car manufacturers in Europe have signalled to the DG Competition their intention to merge. The pre-merger concentration vector of car manufacturers in Europe is as follows: S = [0.25, 0.13, 0.1, 0.08, 0.08, 0.08, 0.08, 0.08, 0.07, 0.05). Based on a preliminary dominance and HHI analysis: (19) the Antitrust should investigate the merger, since the conditions to accept the merger without concerns are not fulfilled O the Antitrust should investigate the merger, since the post-merger HHI is higher than 2000 the Antitrust should allow the merger, since it does not create a dominant firm with at least 50% of the market share O the Antitrust should allow the merger, since the post-merger HHI is lower than 2000