GM to close Pontiac, Mich. truck plant
Associated Press
11:32 AM CDT, September 29, 2009
PONTIAC, Mich.
General Motors Co. is closing a 37-year-old truck plant north of Detroit.
GM spokesman Chris Lee said the closure is scheduled for Tuesday for the plant in Pontiac that makes heavy-duty GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado pickups. The plant employs about 1,000 workers.
The [...]
September 30, 2009
http://detnews.com/article/20090930/AUTO01/909300326
GM’s top electric car exec quits
Key in work on Volt, battery technology, Kruse leaves to start own consulting firm
ROBERT SNELL
The Detroit News
Bob Kruse, who recently led a critical Chevrolet Volt team and devised the automaker’s long-term electric vehicle strategy, has resigned months before the vehicle’s debut, The Detroit News has learned.
Kruse’s resignation, [...]
September 29, 2009
http://detnews.com/article/20090929/AUTO01/909290410
Workers apprehensive on last day at GM Pontiac plant
AMBER ARELLANO
The Detroit News
Pontiac — Workers at General Motors Co.’s truck plant left their jobs Tuesday wondering what will happen to them — and the community they served.
"Unemployment in Pontiac is 26 percent right now," said Jim Hall, a veteran auto worker and United [...]
Toyota to recall 3.8 million autos as floor mats snag gas pedals
Stuck accelerators may cause unintended acceleration
Kathy Jackson
and Chrissie Thompson
Automotive News | September 30, 2009 – 12:01 am EST
LOS ANGELES — Toyota plans to recall as early as next week 3.8 million U.S. Toyota and Lexus models — its largest ever — to [...]
September 28, 2009
GM retirees pinching pennies
Bankruptcy throws uncertainty into plans
By Bill O’Brien
Traverse City Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Duane D’Arcy always considered himself a “happy-go-lucky Irish guy.”
The tag seemed to fit. He retired in 1993 after a rewarding 33-year career as a General Motors Corp. supervisor, and returned to live in northern Michigan, where he’d met [...]
September 28, 2009
Roger Penske expected to close Saturn deal soon
By TIM HIGGINS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
Detroit businessman and booster Roger Penske is on track to close a deal to buy General Motors’ Saturn division on Wednesday, the Free Press learned today.
The official announcement could come Thursday.
GM and Bloomfield Hills-based Penske Automotive Group, the nation’s [...]
Could GM Shut Hummer Down?
Posted: Sep. 28, 2009 10:09 a.m.
General Motors has agreed to sell its Hummer division to Chinese construction equipment manufacturer Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, but there are some signs that the deal might not go through. If the two companies can’t work out a sale, what will happen to the iconic [...]
Disney, GM keeping quiet on future of Test Track
By Ryan McClung | Filed under
News on Sep 28, 2009publicly questioning the viability of GM’s sponsorship of Disney’s Test Track at Epcot, both companies remain silent on the attraction’s fate. General Motors CEO Frederick Henderson was in Orlando last when Orlando Sentinel columnist Beth Kassab asked about [...]
September 24, 2009
Chrysler prepares to rehire some employees
CEO’s 5-year plan includes paying OT
BY GREG GARDNER
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
After 35,000 job cuts in the past two years and a bankruptcy that shifted control to Italy’s Fiat SpA, Chrysler Group is preparing to rehire an unspecified number of salaried workers and ask current workers to put [...]
September 26, 2009
Chrysler workers rally to save Sterling Heights plant
BY GREG GARDNER
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
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September 24, 2009
http://detnews.com/article/20090924/AUTO01/909240475
Bankruptcy court approves wrongful death suit against Chrysler LLC
ALISA PRIDDLE
The Detroit News
A $24 million wrongful death payment [...]
September 25, 2009
http://detnews.com/article/20090925/OPINION03/909250351
GM puts focus back on cars
DANIEL HOWES
They’re breathing a little easier inside General Motors Co.
Not because the [...]
GM changes course, plans fall truck sale
Jamie LaReau
DETROIT — General Motors Co. has changed course and will hold a fall truck sale for its GMC and Chevrolet brands after all.
The [...]
Toyota-GM’s NUMMI to ax all 4,700 workers, paper says
Automotive News | September 26, 2009 – 12:01 am EST
TOKYO (Reuters) — New United Motor Manufacturing Inc (NUMMI), a joint venture between Toyota [...]
GM Workers Talk About 3rd Shift
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