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My cousin bought a crappy electric supercharger the other day, and I must say it looks like a piece of crap. There is no way these things can work, right?

DETROIT, Jan. 6 - General Motors expects to reduce the billion-dollar losses at its struggling North American operations this quarter, as its cost-cutting efforts take effect, G.M.'s chief executive, Rick Wagoner, said today. Speaking in a rare interview with a small group of journalists at G.M.'s headquarters here, Mr. Wagoner declined to say when the automaker's North American operations would return to profitability. But he did emphasize that G.M. had no plans to file for bankruptcy protection. And Mr. Wagoner said he anticipated that stronger sales of new vehicles, including a restyled group of sport utility vehicles, combined with the company's restructuring should…

I have a few questions about the 2007 agreement. First, is GM getting rid of all HMO's or just select hmo's?? And second, people that are on non core jobs will have to make a desicion. One, retire if elegible. Two, quit. Three, stay on their non-core job and work for less money. Or four, flow back to the line. Now if he or she decides to flow back to the line they will bump somebody with a lesser seniority date. Now when all the bumping is said and done where do the people that got bumped go. And are only new hires going to be the ones filling the non-core jobs?? And last but not least who is elegible for the attrition program?

Direct link to article @ GM Media Online FOR RELEASE: 2006-06-13 General Motors Receives Eight Top Scores Michelin Challenge Bibendum 2006 Fuel cell-powered HydroGen3 triumphs three times World's largest automaker committed to three-tier strategy PARIS. General Motors underlined its leading position in alternative propulsion concepts with eight best performances at this year's Michelin Challenge Bibendum (June 8 - 12, 2006). The HydroGen3, a hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle based on the Opel Zafira, scored top marks three times, the Opel Zafira CNG and the Saab 9-5 BioPower twice, and the Saturn Vue Green Line, representing a new generation of hybrid vehicle…

Chosun News Story - Korea As GM Daewoo Soars, Kia Crumbles After Korea suffered the financial crisis of the late 1990s, Kia Motors and Daewoo Motor, two of the top three automakers in the country at the time, changed hands. Kia was bought out by Hyundai, becoming Hyundai Kia Automotive Group in 1998 and Daewoo, which went bankrupt in 2000, was sold to GM of the United States two years later. Nine years have passed since Kia was sold, and seven since Daewoo went belly up. In that time these companies have traveled in opposite directions. Thanks to stable labor relations, Daewoo has grown rapidly as a production base for small and compact GM-branded cars. In contrast, …

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GM offers dealers incentives In effort to halt sales slide, automaker will give retailers $250 for each sale through end of Aug Greg Bensinger | Link to Original Article @ DetNews | Bloomberg News General Motors Corp. is giving dealers cash awards in a bid to halt a 9.4 percent drop in U.S. sales this year, a program outlined in an internal GM memo. Retailers will get $250 for each sale made from Aug. 23 through the end of the month, the memo from Jim Bunnell, general manager of GM's Buick, Pontiac and GMC divisions, said. Dealers can use the money to boost discounts offered directly to consumers through most of September, GM sales and marketing chief Mark LaNeve conf…

June 26, 2008 - 3:30 pm ET TORONTO (Reuters) -- Canadian autoworkers acknowledged that General Motors' decision to close a Oshawa, Ontario, truck plant next year was irrevocable, a union leader said on Thursday after a meeting with company officials. "Are we accepting it? Eventually, if someone keeps hitting you over the head with a sledgehammer, you're going to wake up," said Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers, said at the union's headquarters. Hargrove said GM told the union it may decide to build a new model in its Oshawa car plant, where the new Chevrolet Camaro muscle car is set to begin production, but he added the situation looked bleak. …

'Positive response' prompts GM to extend incentive campaign Company adds Saturn Vue hybrid-electric vehicle to the discount program that runs through Feb. 28. John D. Stoll | Dow Jones Newswires | Link to Original Article @ DetNews DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. has extended until the end of February an incentive campaign as it works to recover from disappointing retail sales in January. It is now including the Saturn Vue hybrid-electric vehicle in the discount program that was originally to end Tuesday. The automaker will continue offering zero percent loans spanning as long as 60 months on vehicles and $500 cash back on certain vehicles. The deals were initially …

I've seen reporters from Forbes, WSJ, CNN, etc. claim GM's situation is their own to blame, even my father said that Corperate america should have known that pensions, healthcare and other large benifits companies promised their workers were as unsustainable as the governments version, social security. The Unions has worked for the last century to provide the hard working laborers of america a decent wage, keeping the gap close between poor and wealthy. Within the last 20 years, globalism has taken a foot hold on America's ecconomy, and while bolstering the ecconomy of places like the Philipines, China, Japan, Korea, & etc. where workers are willing to work for mu…

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic...395/1148/AUTO01 Let me just say that this is the kind of thing that makes GM not just any other Fortune 500 company, or any other car company, but the stuff of legend.

I have seen photoshop pics of the gnx, but i wonder if there is any substance to the idea!!!! I dont know if it will help the security of Buick but it is a kick a$$ idea!!!!!

GM Tv said that they will debut the GMC Yukon on October 5th, and the Cadillac Escalade sometime within the first weeks of November!! They also have the Avalanche ready to show us..., but that girl is standing right in front of it!!! I expect they will debut those in January since they are due out second quarter.

General Motors Corp.'s new chief executive said Tuesday that he will not reduce his salary to $1 a year like his ousted predecessor, Rick Wagoner. Fritz Henderson, GM's former chief operating officer, said at a news conference that his pay will remain unchanged now that he is head of the troubled automaker. His base salary as COO was cut 30 percent to about $1.3 million this year when GM accepted government loans. Wagoner had agreed to accept a salary of $1 as part of the Detroit automaker's request for assistance. The company has been staying afloat because of the $13.4 billion GM has received since Dec. 31, and Wagoner stepped down as CEO on Monday as a condition fo…

Old News, of course, but oh well. From Leftlanenews.com Read the Washington Post Article here: ARTICLE HERE

General Motors' OnStar in-car communications system can give you directions or help you make a phone call, and soon it may also be able to send and receive Tweets. Gear Live recently received a survey from the General announcing that Twitter functionality could soon be on the way. With a press of a vehicle's OnStar button, users will reportedly be able to send voice-activated Tweets of up to 140 bytes to everyone in their Twitter network. The text would automatically be added to the owner's Twitter account via the "What are you doing?" section at the top of the page. The system would also read aloud messages that are sent to the OnStar user. Adding Twitter functionali…

William Maley Editor/Reporter - CheersandGears.com February 20, 2012 Opel/Vauxhall are trying to position themselves as premium car brand for Europe. One problem; their only “flagship” model is the Insignia. CEO Karl-Friedrich Stracke said the brand needs more of them. “I believe we need a top of the line car, to be positioned in the luxury segment. The Insignia car has done a great job of showing we can make premium-like products, but establishing ourselves properly in this territory will be a long journey.” Stracke went onto say, “We would also benefit from launching a large crossover, something to fight the BMW X5 and Mercedes ML, and possibly another roadster — …

Eegads! Could Buick have picked a more overexposed, less interesting person to promote the new Lucerne? Shoot. They should've just bought more billboards with Tiger in the darn thing. http://www.mph-online.com/web/prtranslated/00271 Dave

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Future Products—Suzuki By AUTOMOTIVE NEWS Link to Original Article @ AutoWeek AutoWeek | Published 08/16/06, 8:04 am et ----------------------------- Aerio, Aeria: The Aerio wagon will be dropped during the 2007 model year. Forenza: A freshening is planned for the 2008 model year. Reno: Reno is the hatchback version of the Forenza. It may get a high-performance engine for the 2008 model year. Swift: The company will bring the next-generation Swift hatchback to the United States in 2010 to compete with such vehicles as the Honda Fit. A hybrid sedan is a possibility. The Swift last was sold here in 2002. Verona: U.S. sales never hit projections, so the car will…

GM ramps up recycling More than 80 plants to be landfill-free after 2010 Robert Snell | Link to Original Article @ The Detroit News WARREN -- General Motors Corp. plans to recycle or reuse all production waste and garbage at half of its factories around the world by the end of 2010, a move that could pour millions of dollars into the automaker's coffers from sales of scrap metal and recycled materials. The commitment to having more than 80 of its factories become landfill-free generates money for financially-strapped GM and dovetails with its commitment to environmentally friendly policies, company officials said during an announcement Friday at the company's tr…

DETROIT (AP) - The United Auto Workers union isn't negotiating with auto supplier Delphi Corp. but began talking with General Motors Corp. two weeks ago about a possible deal that could avert a strike at Delphi, the UAW's top GM negotiator said Tuesday. UAW vice-president Richard Shoemaker said Delphi has only talked to the union twice since it filed for bankruptcy in October, when it gave the union two different wage proposals. The UAW rejected both proposals, which would have cut production workers'wages from $27 US an hour to $12.50 US an hour or lower. Shoemaker said the UAW hasn't offered its own wage proposal. "Their proposal, th…

BY MICHAEL ELLIS FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER General Motors Corp. shares closed above $30 for the first time in more than nine months on Tuesday amid growing expectations that the troubled automaker could post an operating profit today. The higher stock price put billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian back in the black on his nearly $1.7-billion investment in GM stock. If GM beats earnings forecasts, analysts say CEO Rick Wagoner could tout the figures as proof that his turnaround plan is succeeding and the automaker doesn't need to join an alliance with Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA. "I believe that it will demonstrate beyond any possible doubt that Mr. Wagoner is …

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Link to Article GM Hits Million-Sales Mark in China Date posted: 12-21-2007 SHANGHAI, China — When General Motors edged Ford Motor more than 10 years ago to become the preferred partner of Shanghai Automotive, critics maintained that it would take decades for GM to recoup its initial $3 billion investment in the Shanghai GM venture and the jointly operated Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC). Turns out it only took a single decade. In fact, GM's China operations have been profitable since the early years. And now, with SGM and PATAC marking their 10th anniversaries in 2007, GM has achieved an even more remarkable milestone: It has become the first glob…

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December 6, 2005 GM names its displacement-on-demand "Active Fuel Management" Detroit, Michigan – General Motors has trademarked Active Fuel Management as the name for its displacement-on-demand technology, beginning with the 2007 5.3-litre V8-equipped Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon. The name will be applied to all model-year 2007 vehicles equipped with the technology. Active Fuel Management enables the engine to automatically and seamlessly operate on only half the engine's cylinders when full power is not needed, improving efficiency by as much as 12 per cent in some vehicles. GM currently offers the system in nine models, and by 2008 it will be used…

Link To Article Well i woke up this morning to a pleasent picture on the cover of MSN.com a Z06, with the title Americas 2006 Highest Quality cars then once i clicked that, i see the HHR

GM hits the brakes on Opel deal; no signing with Magna this week FRANKFURT (Reuters) -- General Motors Co. put on hold a deal to sell a 55 percent stake in carmaker Opel to a Russian-backed consortium led by Canadian auto parts group Magna International Inc., GM's chief negotiator on the deal said today. Subscribe to Automotive News No sale can proceed until the U.S. carmaker's board of directors discusses the Opel deal at a meeting on Nov. 3, chief negotiator John Smith said in a blog entry, pouring cold water on hopes that the sale contract could be signed this week. "Given the significance of the Opel transaction, GM's board will soon meet in its regularly …

GM is Among Both Most and Least Trusted Firms in US By BRADLEY JOHNSON | AUTOMOTIVE NEWS AutoWeek | Published 02/14/06, 9:02 am et General Motors is loaded with debt and is the subject of bankruptcy speculation. But give it credit: GM scores tops for trust among U.S. consumers. There's a downside, though: GM also shows up on the list of companies that Americans trust least. These are among the findings of the American Demographics 2006 Consumer Perception Survey. The survey was conducted by Synovate for Advertising Age, which, like Automotive News and AutoWeek, is published by Crain Communications Inc. Last November, the online survey sought the views of more t…

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H3 Drives Record HUMMER Sales Strong Start for Chevy HHR and Impala Pontiac Sales Up 7 Percent, Paced by Brisk G6 Deliveries DETROIT - General Motors dealers in the United States sold 355,180 new cars and trucks in August, down 16 percent from the same month a year ago. Car sales in August declined 15 percent and truck sales were off 17 percent. GM's August sales performance was in line with expectations following exceptionally strong sales in June and July, spurred by the highly successful GM Employee Discount for Everyone program. "We knew August was going to be a tough month given extremely tight inventories," said Mark LaNeve, GM North America…

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GM Wants 10% of Asian Market by '10 General Motors Corp., its market share shrinking at home, is turning to Asia to boost its profits, and aims to capture 10% of the region's market by 2010, the U.S. automaker's regional chief said 10%. Top target markets are China and India, where rapid economic growth is fueling demand for cars, said Nick Reilly, president of GM Asia Pacific. GM aims to sell 1.3 million vehicles in Asia this year to grab a 6.5% market share, two-thirds of which is expected to come from China, he said. Last year, GM's sales hit just over 1 million units in Asia for the first time, giving it a market share of 5.7%. Detroit Free Press

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Link So because US automakers make better large vehicles and therefore sell more they get penalized more? Was CAFE dreamed up by politicians that don't understand math? Seems like required mileage ratings should depend on the class of vehicle. I'm not opposed to gas mileage requirements but it's really not going to force construction companies to trade their 1-ton work truck for a Honda Civic. Trucks are still needed, and this penalizes companies who make good ones and therefore sell more. This is going to hurt US industry more in the process. Did I miss something?

GM Initiates the "Arlington Project" Mark LaNeve, GM's head guy in sales and marketing, discusses a new GM marketing initive dubbed the "Arlington Project". The project seeks to reach target markets that are more in tune with local media outlets rather than national ones that have panned GM. GM seeks to extol the virtues of their products in these markets and become more aggresive in doing so. Read "New GM project targets U.S. cities" @ The Detroit News

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GM's Lansing Plants Turn It Around This winter, Lansing's auto industry has new life. GM's Lansing Grand River plant, which opened in 2001, is cranking out Cadillacs and ranks among the world's best auto plants in quality. In November, GM's Lansing Delta Township Plant started making a new family of large crossovers - the GMC Acadia, Saturn Outlook and Buick Enclave. Some local officials and workers are hoping GM will add another assembly plant at the Delta Township location, on Lansing's western edge. The hope of expansion may be getting ahead of the Lansing - and GM - auto story. GM is in the process of scaling back North American production because of declining sale…

Massive downsizing plan would impact idled GM workers, help Delphi recover from bankruptcy. General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers are in advanced talks on buyout offers for up to 20,000 hourly employees, setting the stage for the biggest exodus of union workers in recent memory. The massive buyout plan would clear the way for GM to absorb the "flowback" of thousands of idled UAW workers in the automaker's "jobs bank" as well as former GM employees on the payroll of bankrupt Delphi Corp. The negotiations on buyouts are integral to GM's planned downsizing of its U.S. manufacturing operations and the emergence of Delphi, its largest supplier, from bankruptcy, a…

Suzuki's SX Appeal New compact sedan and other upcoming models help expand lineup By KATHY JACKSON | AUTOMOTIVE NEWS Thanks to the new SX4 hatchback and the redesigned XL-7 mid-sized SUV, Suzuki is headed for its second straight 100,000-sales year here in 2007. Suzuki will add a small SX4 sedan this fall and expects the SX4 nameplate to be its best-seller in the coming years. The company also will get its first pickup, a version of the Nissan Frontier. ******** Aerio: The 2007 model year is the last for the Aerio sedan. Reno: A freshening is scheduled for the 2009 model year. Suzuki is considering a high-horsepower engine for the vehicle. Swift: The Swift was la…

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G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com GM and Navistar reach Commercial Agreement GM and Navistar have signed a long term agreement to co develop future medium duty Class 4/5 trucks for the Commercial Chevrolet truck line. GM is excited to expand and grow their commercial line of trucks as they add to the fleet lineup of crossovers, vans, trucks and medium duty trucks. Navistar will add 300 jobs and invest 12 million into their facility to produce these new vehicles that will be sold under GM's Chevrolet division and Navistar. http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2015/sep/0930-navistar…

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http://www.motorauthority.com/wp-content/u...V_R8_main01.jpg Australia’s Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) is the successful performance arm of GM-Holden and has been modifying and building its own cars for the past 20 years. GM officials now hope to copy that success in other markets where Holden products are sold and the first of these will be the Middle Eastern market where an E-series HSV Commodore was recently spotted. In the Middle East the cars are sold as Chevrolets hence the name Chevrolet Special Vehicles (CSV). The guys over at DriveArabia managed to get their hands on a list of 2008 models from General Motors Middle East, and one of the cars mentioned was a “CSV…

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Tracinda Steps Up Pressure on GM By Nat Worden TheStreet.com Staff Reporter 1/10/2006 2:08 PM EST Kirk Kerkorian's firm, Tracinda, called on General Motors (GM:NYSE - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) Tuesday to pare back its dividend payments to shareholders and adopt a comprehensive "equality of sacrifice" plan to revive its business. The firm said its adviser, Jerome York, presented a plan for GM at the Society of Automotive Analysts that included cutting the company's annual dividend by 50%. York also is seeking a "substantial" reduction in payments and salaries for the company's top brass. "The reality is that all constituencies -- the companies themselv…

I am starting to get baffled by the alphabet soup of change. Which new platforms are to be redone or scrapped/replaced for the 2008 and 2009 model year? 2008 - Malibu and related platform? 2009 - Impala and related platform? What about LaX and GP - when are they do for facelift or doomed to the graveyard of monikers? What is moving from FWD to RWD? This would be interesting for everyone's edification.

Kerkorian consultant Jerome York Jerome B. (Jerry) York Age: 67 Birthplace: Memphis, Tenn. Education: Bachelor's degree from the U.S. Military Academy, 1960; master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1961; MBA from the University of Michigan, 1966. Career: Chief executive officer of Harwinton Capital Corp., a private investment company he founded in 2000; chief executive officer of Micro Warehouse Inc., a reseller of computer products, 2000 to mid-2003; vice chairman of Tracinda Corp., billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian's private investment company, 1995 to 1999; senior vice president and chief financial officer of IBM Corp., 19…

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MARK PHELAN: Don't bury GM yet: It has the vehicles for recovery November 22, 2005 FREE PRESS COLUMNIST General Motors Corp. builds more good cars and trucks today than it has in decades, but it's still saddled with too many losers. Its plant closures should address that and allow GM to stop diverting resources it can't afford to vehicles it doesn't need. It may make sense for Pontiac and Buick to attempt to sell minivans in some alternate universe, but on Earth the boring vehicles only distract GM from coming up with vehicles the public actually wants. Every big automaker has its share of underperforming models -- even Japan's successful automa…

Dear T Charlieville, You made the right choice when you put your confidence in General Motors, and we appreciate your past support. I want to assure you that we are making our best vehicles ever, and we have exciting plans for the future. But we need your help now. Simply put, we need you to join us to let Congress know that a bridge loan to help U.S. automakers also helps strengthen the U.S. economy and preserve millions of American jobs. Despite what you may be hearing, we are not asking Congress for a bailout but rather a loan that will be repaid. The U.S. economy is at a crossroads due to the worldwide credit crisis, and all Americans are feeling the effects of …

" The automaker announced an unlimited data plan for the 4G LTE system that turns its vehicles into mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. In the Chevrolet brand alone, more than 3.1 million vehicles have the capability that allows users to connect up to seven smartphones, tablets or other devices at a time, from distances up to 50 feet. Starting Friday, owners of 4G-capable Chevys, Cadillacs, GMCs and Buicks will be able to pay a flat $20 a month for the service. It's a change from current service plans for limited amounts of monthly data. At Chevrolet, the offers included a gigabyte for $10 a month, four gigs for $20 and 10 gigs for $40." https://www.usatoday.com/story/m…

WASHINGTON — It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rules of American capitalism. But that, in short, is the job description for Brian Deese, a not-quite graduate of Yale Law School who had never set foot in an automotive assembly plant until he took on his nearly unseen role in remaking the American automotive industry. Nor, for that matter, had he given much thought to what ailed an industry that had been in decline ever since he was born. A bit laconic and looking every bit the just-out-of-graduate-school student adjusting to life in the West Wing — “he’s got this beard that appears an…

It has been almost two months since General Motors announced a compensation fund for families who either lost a loved one or who were injured because of a problem due to the ignition switch. According to the Detroit Free Press, almost 300 people have filed a claim. 100 people who have filed a claim said their loved ones were killed because of defect, while 184 people said their injuries come as a result of the problem. These numbers come from Amy Weiss, a spokeswoman for fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg. The Detroit Free Press says each person who has filed a claim has to provide evidence that it was the defective switch that was the cause of the injury/fatality. If …

GM Announces New Program to Design and Manufacture Electric Motors http://gm-volt.com/2010/01/26/gm-announces-new-program-to-design-and-manufacture-electric-motors/ GM is taking the next critical step to position itself competitively in a future of electrified automobiles. Vice Chairman Tom Stephens is announcing today that GM is expanding its in-house core competency to include the design and manufacture of electric motors. This will make the company the first major US automaker to mass produce its own electric motors. Electric traction motors are a critical component for both hybrid and electric cars. Stephens likens them to the combustion engine, and the bat…

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic...UTO01/902220319 so could this be an impetus for Bowling Green to cease possibly?

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New GM Crossovers On An Odyssey of Their Own By Scott Anderson Dec 28, 2006 1:08 PM Link to Original Article @ WardsAuto PALO ALTO, CA – It’s just not cool to make minivans anymore. It’s debatable if minivans ever were cool – just ask any 30-something who grew up sandwiched between a cooler of Capri Sun and mesh bag of soccer balls. But minivans are even less cool if you’re an auto maker on the wrong end of the segment, as General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. demonstrated this year. Both domestic auto makers have shut down their minivan programs, leaving the sliding-doors wide open for the leaders: The Honda Odyssey and Chrysler Group’s Dodge Caravan. By no…

EDWARD LAPHAM COMMENTARY 8/23/05: Can a U.S.-built car be the next great Euro roadster? By Edward Lapham Automotive News / August 23, 2005 General Motors execs expect big results from the low-volume Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky roadsters, which will be image-building halo vehicles for their brands. Initial Solstice sales make it popular, but production is being ramped up slowly, so Pontiac dealers are clamoring for more cars. Some Pontiac dealers are grumbling that GM shouldn't give Saturn dealers a version, even though it goes into production this year. What's less certain is how Europeans will accept the Opel roadster that is expected for 2007.…

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When cars were America's idols STATUS: A Cadillac, this one a 1958 Eldorado, topped GM’s “Ladder of Success,” a shrewd marketing strategy that welded a link between who we are and what we drive. --- Dan Neil June 1, 2009 If you were to walk up to a typical New York executive in the 1960s -- think Don Draper in AMC's "Mad Men" -- and tell him that General Motors Corp. would be in bankruptcy by 2009, he would have thought you were delusional, or perhaps a Communist. GM was more than just the world's largest and most admired corporation; it was the final vindication of the American Way, the perfected and even divinely inspired example of democratic capitalism th…

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GM back in 2019 rolled out what their BEV platform would be like using the BEV global platform that will evolve in supporting a complete portfolio of BEV or battery electric auto's. The goal of the BEV platform was to use a new GM digital vehicle platform that enables future technology by supporting data processing of up to 4.5 terabytes per hour, a five fold increase over the current electrical architecture at the time with connectivity supporting up to 10 Gbps. This is what would allow GM to have over the air updates to their products for decades to come. https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2019/may/0…

I was on GMInfonet today looking at some vehicle specs when I noticed that they finally added XM Radio to the option list. We were also told that if you have a 2006 vehicle with a new style OnStar antenna, a chip just needs to be added to allow your vehicle to recieve the XM signal. XM Radio Canada service begins December 1st. As of today GM Canada vehicles can be ordered with XM Radio.

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This made me smile. Without a doubt, the coolest business card I've ever seen, even if it doesn't mention GM. http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=110163

GM Displaces P&G As Top Ad Spender, But Autos Begin To Slide by Joe Mandese, Friday, Dec 2, 2005 7:45 AM EST FUELED BY A 7.3 PERCENT boost in its advertising budget, General Motors Corp. emerged as the nation's largest advertiser during the first nine months of 2005, nudging out alpha marketer Procter & Gamble, which has been cutting back on spending in the conventional media measured by syndicated ad spending researcher Nielsen Monitor-Plus. Despite a 5.6 percent cut by DaimlerChrysler, which slipped behind Ford the nation's third largest advertiser, the auto category has been quite healthy, account for $5.4 billion during the first three quarter…

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By William Maley Staff Writer - CheersandGears.com April 4, 2013 General Motors announced today a new investment of $331.8 million in four manufacturing sites to produce more fuel-efficient engines and transmissions. GM said in a press release today that some parts of the investment will help prepare its factories to produce a new eight-speed automatic transmission and increase capacity for an existing six-speed gearbox. Other parts will go towards support the production of a new V6 engine (no details given in the release) and a new EcoTec engine that will be part of a new family of 3- and 4-cylinder variants with displacements ranging from 1.0 to 1.5 liters.. Here i…

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I've heard this for awhile now, or rumblings at least but this is what GM and the UAW will be doing to replace the massive number of people that are leaving GM due to the early retirement buyouts. Evok and I have speculated in the past that some type of agreement would be conjured up between the Union and General Motors to replace those workers. This is the deal. GM has already began hiring temporary workers at three locations in Metro-Detroit. These temporary workers are being told they will be kept with the company for at least one year. However they will not have health benefits, and will not be considered part of the Union. Once the year passes, if General Moto…

GM CFO Chris Liddell Leaves William Maley - Editor/Reporter - CheersandGears.com March 10, 2011 Chris Liddell, GM's chief financial officer for fourteen months has announced he will be leaving the company on April 1st. Liddell, who came from Microsoft helped GM through the largest IPO in Wall Street history. In a statement released today, Liddell said, “I came to General Motors to be part of something great. My objective was to help rebuild this iconic company and I am particularly pleased that through this process," His successor is Dan Ammann, GM's Treasurer. Ammann joined GM in March 2010 after a stint as managing director and head of industrials inve…

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