GM offers year-end Red Tag sale to clear ’07 inventory Automotive News | November 19, 2007 – 2:00 pm EST DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors is offering zero-percent financing for five years to clear out 2007 inventory, while also giving dealers incentives for 2008 models as the automaker tries to boost sales in a soft [...]

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Robotic Tahoe takes the wheel Continental AG, university join to win competition November 19, 2007 BY JEWEL GOPWANI FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER It can think for itself. It moves by itself. It has a laser sensor that spins around, and flashing lights on its roof. It’s like the R2-D2 of SUVs. (WILLIAM ARCHIE/Detroit Free Press) [...]

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Irving Bluestone, Brookline, Mass. Key aide to UAW’s Reuther had ‘amazing respect’ for others Monday, November 19, 2007 Mike Wilkinson / The Detroit News Irving Bluestone, a top lieutenant to one-time UAW president Walter Reuther who later was vice president of the union’s General Motors department, died Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007, at his home in [...]

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GM maverick manager John Rock dies queryvar=”gm,maverick,manager,john,rock,dies”; Richard Truett Automotive News | November 19, 2007 – 10:56 am EST DETROIT — John Rock, one of General Motors’ true maverick managers, died from cancer on Friday, Nov. 16, at his ranch in Hot Springs, S.D. He was 71. The brash and feisty Rock will probably be [...]

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