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 [...]

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)

Michael Darms, project engineer for Continental Automotive System [...]

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 Brookline, Mass. He was [...]

GM maverick manager John Rock dies

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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 [...]