GM: Driverless cars may be on market in 10 years
Monday, January 7, 2008
Consumer Electronics Show
Tom Krisher / Associated Press
DETROIT — Cars that drive themselves — even parking at their destination — could be ready for sale within a decade, General Motors Corp. executives say.
GM, parts suppliers, university engineers and other automakers all are working on [...]
Report: GM set 2007 sales records overseas
Monday, January 7, 2008
Detroit News wire services
General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner said the automaker will probably get 75 percent of car and truck sales from outside the U.S. within a decade, Bloomberg News reported today.
GM will push sales in the fastest-growing markets as demand in the U.S. stagnates, [...]
UAW: Ford and Chrysler are in strong financial positions
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Jamie LaReau
Automotive News | January 7, 2008 - 4:51 pm EST
DETROIT — UAW President Ron Gettelfinger says Chrysler LLC and Ford Motor Co. are in healthy financial positions to weather economic hardships.
UAW forecasters predict the first six months of the year will be “pretty tough,” especially [...]
Publisher of auto plant efficiency report sees chance to grow
Harbour is sold to N.Y.-based global consulting firm
January 7, 2008
BY TOM WALSH
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST
Harbour Consulting, the Troy-based firm that set the standard in automotive shop-floor efficiency studies with publication of the first Harbour Report in 1989, has been sold to Oliver Wyman, a $1.3-billion global consulting [...]
