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, [...]

When Saturn goes, so does a quarter of GM’s hybrid sales   queryvar=”when,saturn,goes,so,does,a,quarter,of,gm’s,hybrid,sales”; 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 [...]

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 [...]