GM to build pickup Hummer in Louisiana
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Detroit News Wire Services
General Motors Corp. is adding a pickup version of its Hummer H3 sport-utility vehicle at a Louisiana assembly plant as the automaker tries to stem the brand’s declining sales, Bloomberg News reported today.
GM will invest $73 million in the plant that builds the [...]
Crunch time: Gettelfinger visits Ford HQ
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Bryce G. Hoffman / The Detroit News
Talks between Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers kicked into high gear Tuesday morning as UAW President Ron Gettelfinger arrived at the company’s Dearborn headquarters to begin the final push toward a new national contract, according to sources familiar [...]
GM may get less cash from Delphi reorganization
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David Barkholz
Automotive News | October 30, 2007 - 1:52 pm EST
Delphi Corp. wants to pay General Motors a lot less cash as part of its financial restructuring to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Ford, union poised for talks finale
Negotiators have general agreements; setting strike deadline likely next big step.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
UAW-Ford Contract talks
Bryce G. Hoffman / The Detroit News
Talks between the United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co. continued Monday as UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said his team is "getting geared up" for the final push to [...]
Retooling the family hauler: Rapper, hot rod king put pizzazz in Ford Flex to lure crossover market
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
2007 SEMA show
Scott Burgess / The Detroit News
These aren’t your Momma’s minivans.
While the FooseFlex and the Flex² are family haulers, they’re too cool to haul kids to schools.
And that’s exactly what Ford Motor Co. wants.
These customized [...]
Chrysler to dump three slow-sellers
Pacifica, PT Cruiser, Magnum expected to get axed as automaker realigns product lineup.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Bill Vlasic / The Detroit News
The board of Chrysler LLC is expected to decide today to kill at least three slow-selling models as part of a sweeping strategic realignment of the newly private automaker.
People close to [...]
GM rolls out hybrid transmissions
New systems will be used in Chevy Tahoe, GMC Yukon, for industry’s first full-size hybrid SUVs.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau
WHITE MARSH, Md. — General Motors Corp. launched production Monday of its first two-mode hybrid transmission at a plant just outside Baltimore as the automaker tries to [...]
