GM Ramps Up Production at Two US Plants
18 Aug 2009, 15:00 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) surely brought a smile of the face of many US automakers, as the scheme boosted sales in most sectors of the auto industry. General Motors is one of the compan...
GM Working on $4,000 Car
17 Aug 2009, 10:59 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / It sounds amazing, doesn't it? General Motors is planning a $4,000 ultra low-cost model that would be manufactured in Asia and especially addressed to local markets. It would be obviously suppo...
Volt, A Risk for Both Chevrolet and GM
12 Aug 2009, 15:09 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Chevrolet Volt, the flagship hybrid that General Motors hopes it will turn the company around, achieves, as we told you yesterday, a fuel consumption rating of 230 mpg. Quite impressive, we would sa...
GM Wants to Get Rid of Opel as Quickly as Possible
12 Aug 2009, 10:25 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Even if negotiations between the interested Opel bidders and General Motors seem to go on forever, the American manufacturer wants to get rid of the German brand as soon as possible. GM Chief Financ...
Henderson: We're Changing the Culture at GM
12 Aug 2009, 09:26 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / GM is now undergoing the biggest restructuring ever, not only at the product range level but also at the way the company sees customers and the market per se. Fritz Henderson, GM President and CEO, ...
Angela Merkel Will Help Magna Snatch Opel
12 Aug 2009, 09:04 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / German Chancellor Angela Merkel is once again showing her support for Magna International, the Canadian - Austrian partsmaker which competes with RHJ for the majority stake in Opel. Furthermore, Mer...
Cadillac Confirms Entry Luxury Sports Sedan
11 Aug 2009, 14:09 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / GM's President and CEO Fritz Henderson has just announced that Cadillac, one of the new GM's four core brands, is developing an entry luxury sports sedan that would better address the econ...
Chevrolet Volt Is Not "Commercially Viable"
11 Aug 2009, 07:38 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Chevrolet Volt, the over-praised model which is expected to turn General Motors around and pave the way to profit, might not be ready in time for the November 2010 launch. A regulatory filing repor...
Michigan Battery Factory Location to Be Announced by GM This Week
10 Aug 2009, 13:53 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / After receiving numerous government grants and loans, we finally hear some positive news from General Motors. The giant American auto maker plans to open a new battery assembly line in Michigan, Uni...
GM, Profitability by 2011
6 Aug 2009, 14:27 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Things are getting better for former bankruptcy automaker General Motors who's experiencing high sales in the domestic market following the US government scrapping scheme. And the future sounds...
GM Wants New Cars Faster
6 Aug 2009, 06:48 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After emerging from bankruptcy, re-becoming a top player in the auto sector is one of the most important tasks for General Motors. And the new board wants to do this by bringing new cars on the mark...
Ford Craves Opel's Leftovers
31 Jul 2009, 08:54 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Even if some people believe that Chinese Geely is close to buying Volvo, there's no way to see that in the near future, at least not until Opel's situation gets clarified. What's the ...
GM China Targets 70 Percent Sales Boost in July
30 Jul 2009, 07:49 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Automakers who are selling cars in China have extremely high expectations from this particular markets, mostly following the remarkable figures posted in the last few months. General Motors for exam...
Electrification Important to GM's Success
28 Jul 2009, 09:07 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / As if that wasn't obvious... But General Motors is really keen on getting closer to electrification, as Beth Lowery, Vice President of Environment, Energy and Safety Policy at GM, said in a web...
RHJ Admits It Could Sell Opel Back to GM
27 Jul 2009, 07:31 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / RHJ International, one of the two bidders who're still in the race for Opel, admitted a few days ago that it could sell Opel back to General Motors after it completes the restructuring process....
To NUMMI or Not to NUMMI
24 Jul 2009, 13:40 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / A cloud of uncertainty still reigns over the now former Toyota-GM NUMMI operation's fate. The 5,400-worker joint venture between the two, which dates back to 1984 could see its bitter end this ...
More Executive Changes at GM
24 Jul 2009, 07:52 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / Going through a long restructuring process, GM has announced today several major changes in its leadership, sales and marketing positions. The North American auto maker replaced Gary Cower from his ...
Toyota to Give Up NUMMI Share Too
23 Jul 2009, 14:57 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After General Motors announced its decision to pull out of the NUMMI joint venture it had with Toyota, the Japanese manufacturer is now doing the same thing in an attempt to sell its very own stake ...
Dongfeng Hits on Holden
22 Jul 2009, 09:55 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Chinese companies are everywhere. No matter what we are talking about, there's a little Chinese in everything. How exactly they managed to do this, it's still a mystery but Chinese automak...
Magna's New Offer for Opel
22 Jul 2009, 08:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As announced yesterday, Canadian manufacturer Magna and its partner, Russian bank Sberbank, have submitted their final bid for GM's Opel, in an attempt to acquire a 55 percent stake in the comp...