GM takes camouflage off new Camaro
January 4, 2008
General Motors has released the first picture of the new Chevrolet Camaro without camouflage. In fact, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has decreed that all of the preproduction Camaros be driven without the cladding and camouflage to better test aerodynamics and cooling efficiency, Chevrolet General Manager Ed Peper [...]

GM says 2010 no sure thing for Volt
Wagoner says automaker wants production as soon as possible; battery development is key.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Sharon Terlep / The Detroit News
General Motors Corp. still hopes to have the Chevrolet Volt — the automaker’s ambitious attempt at a plug-in hybrid — on the road by 2010, CEO Rick Wagoner [...]

GM’s turning 100, hold the nostalgia
Web-heavy campaign will emphasize issues restructuring auto giant faces in next century.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Sharon Terlep / The Detroit News
General Motors Corp. will launch a massive, year-long blitz of marketing and special events to mark 100 years in existence.
But the fete won’t include a commemorative book or even much nostalgia [...]

This Big 3 sequel is scary
Problems confronting automakers nearly three decades ago still haunt them without change.

Daniel Howes
Friday, January 4, 2008
Twenty-seven years ago — when oil breached an inflation-adjusted $100 a barrel, lines formed at gas stations and the Japanese began a generation-long march into the American car market — Detroit and its hometown automakers [...]

Toyota snatches No. 2 spot from Ford
Japanese carmaker’s sales rose 3.1% in 2007; it could overtake GM as world’s largest automaker this year.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Bryce G. Hoffman / The Detroit News
Fifty years after Toyota Motor Corp.’s first tentative foray into the U.S. market, the Japanese automaker has soared past Ford Motor Co. to claim [...]

Chrysler to cut 1,096 jobs in Belvidere, Ill.

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Ryan Beene
Automotive News | January 3, 2008 - 11:37 am EST
 
 
Chrysler will eliminate 1,096 jobs next month at its assembly plant in Belvidere, Ill., a company spokeswoman said today.
The job cuts have been expected since CEO Bob Nardelli said Nov. 1 that Chrysler would eliminate up to [...]

GM cancels V-8 program for luxury cars
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Richard Truett
and Jamie LaReau
Automotive News | January 3, 2008 - 12:50 pm EST
 
 
DETROIT — General Motors has canceled plans to build a new advanced double overhead-cam V-8 for its luxury cars.
The move means the future for Cadillac’s V-8 car engines is unclear.
In January 2007, GM said it [...]