Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Daniel Howes
Commentary: Federal control of General Motors is game changer

With the arguable exception of the disastrous British Leyland experiment in the 1970s, even the Europeans never went this far.
Not in post-war France, when Charles DeGaulle nationalized Renault SA in 1945 to punish its founder for alleged enemy collaboration, a stake that has [...]

When Saturn goes, so does a quarter of GM’s hybrid sales
 

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Richard Truett
Automotive News | April 28, 2009 – 2:06 pm EST
 

When General Motors closes down Saturn later this year, it will lose just over a quarter of its sales of fuel-saving hybrids — the type of vehicles that the Obama administration wants automakers to [...]

April 24, 2009
 
Plight of Carmakers Could Upset All Pension Plans

By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH

Decisions that the government will make soon on the future of General Motors and Chrysler could accelerate the decline of traditional pension plans, which have sheltered generations of workers from an impoverished old age.
Pension experts predict that a government takeover of the two [...]