GM to make significant investment in Ohio plant Reuters TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Aug 15 (Reuters) – General Motors Corp said on Friday that it planned to announce a multimillion-dollar investment in its manufacturing complex in Lordstown, Ohio, next week. GM also said it would release the first photographs of its Chevrolet Cruze small car at [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008 Gov. Jindal heads to Detroit to talk to GM Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. – Governor Bobby Jindal is heading to Detroit in hope of saving jobs at Shreveport’s General Motors assembly plant. Jindal and Shreveport officials are meeting Friday with GM North America president Troy Clarke. They plan to offer [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008 Scott Burgess: A Century of General Motors GM’s best and baddest In a century of innovation, these stand out as triumphs General Motors Corp. has been reinventing the car for 100 years now. From the time Billy Durant helped eliminate the crank starter to when The General helped the world clean [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008 Toyota won’t resume pickup truck line in Indiana Associated Press PRINCETON, Ind. – Toyota Motor Corp. says it will not resume production of the Tundra pickup truck at its Princeton, Ind., plant in November as previously announced. The company said last month that it would move production of the Tundra to [...]
Ford to sell as much as $500 million in new stock queryvar=”ford,to,sell,as,much,as,$500,million,in,new,stock”; Richard Truett Automotive News | August 14, 2008 – 9:42 pm EST DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. late Thursday said it will sell up to $500 million worth of new shares of stock. Ford will use the proceeds from the [...]
GM says ‘significant’ interest in asset sales queryvar=”gm,says,significant,interest,in,asset,sales”; Automotive News | August 13, 2008 – 4:01 am EST Rick Wagoner RAYONG, Thailand (Reuters) — General Motors Chairman Rick Wagoner said today he was seeing "significant interest" in the company’s plan to sell up to $4 billion in assets. "Frankly, we are getting some [...]
Toyota projects gas prices to bottom out at $3.50 queryvar=”toyota,projects,gas,prices,to,bottom,out,at,$350″; Andrew Grossman Automotive News | August 14, 2008 – 12:01 am EST TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Gas prices could rise to $5.00 per gallon in the U.S. by the middle of the next decade, the Toyota division general manager for Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. [...]
2008 MANAGEMENT BRIEFING SEMINARS James B. Treece Automotive News | August 14, 2008 – 11:37 am EST TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The design team for General Motors’ Volt plug-in hybrid car has added six to seven miles to the car’s electricity-only range by improving the car’s aerodynamics. “Air does not like to go around [...]
