Thursday, July 10, 2008 GM’s Lordstown plant to build global Cruze Fuel-efficient compact car to replace Chevrolet Cobalt Scott Burgess / The Detroit News The first Chevrolet built on a new global platform will be called the Cruze and get 45 miles per gallon, General Motors Corp. said Wednesday. The compact car, which replaces the [...]

    Spanish GM plant to run on sun   FREE PRESS NEWS SERVICES • July 9, 2008   General Motors Corp. plans to install the world’s largest collection of solar panels on a rooftop in Spain to supply power to an automobile factory. The photovoltaic devices will cover the space of about 42 football [...]

  CAW endorses Hargrove successor queryvar=”caw,endorses,hargrove,successor”; Craig Trudell Automotive News | July 9, 2008 – 12:01 am EST     The Canadian Auto Workers executive board Tuesday endorsed union local President Ken Lewenza as the successor to CAW President Buzz Hargrove, who will retire by Sept. 15. Hargrove, 64, has led the CAW for 16 [...]

  Chevrolet’s new compact car to be called the Cruze queryvar=”chevrolets,new,compact,car,to,be,called,the,cruze”; Jamie LaReau Automotive News | July 9, 2008 – 4:51 pm EST     DETROIT — General Motors is calling its new compact car for Chevrolet the Cruze, the automaker confirmed late today. "The name is a derivative of the word cruise," says Nancy [...]