GM: Profitable in North America by 2010 or 2011

White House reacts to automaker’s losses
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Automotive News | February 12, 2008 - 7:30 am EST
 
 
DETROIT — By 2010 or 2011, General Motors should be solidly profitable in North America, says CFO Fritz Henderson.
“In order to get North America sustainably profitable and generating cash, we need to win [...]

GM offers all U.S. union workers buyouts, retirement

Automotive News | February 12, 2008 - 7:10 am EST
 
 
DETROIT (Reuters) — General Motors will offer buyouts or early retirements to all 74,000 U.S. hourly workers represented by the UAW in a sweeping deal with the union intended to clear the way for GM to hire lower-cost replacements.
The [...]

Rival backs Chrysler consolidation
February 12, 2008
BY TIM HIGGINS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
SAN FRANCISCO — A top Toyota Motor Corp. executive Monday endorsed Chrysler LLC President Jim Press’ stepped-up efforts to consolidate its dealer network.
"It’s what has to happen," Jim Lentz, president of Toyota’s U.S. sales arm, told the Free Press following the American International Automobile Dealers [...]

Monday, February 11, 2008
Clinton visits GM hybrid plant, promises help for automakers
Deb Price / Detroit News Washington Bureau
WHITE MARSH, Md. — After sitting behind the wheel of a black Tahoe Hybrid SUV, Democrat Hillary Clinton told General Motors workers at a plant here today that she, as president, would help the auto industry through research [...]

Ford recalls about 180,000 trucks

Harry Stoffer

Automotive News

February 11, 2008 - 3:54 pm ET
WASHINGTON — Ford Motor Co. [...]