Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Ram pickup is only new Chrysler for ‘10
Alisa Priddle / The Detroit News
Chrysler Group LLC has only one all-new vehicle for 2010 but is adding fuel-efficient versions of existing products and making more features standard in a lineup that must carry it through next year.
The single new offering is the heavy-duty Dodge [...]

Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Toyota accused of hiding tests
Lawsuit questions use of rollover-crash data
Laurence Viele Davidson / Bloomberg News
Toyota Motor Corp. may face demands that rollover-crash cases it won or settled be reopened, in light of accusations by a former company lawyer that the automaker hid records sought by plaintiffs.
The ex-Toyota lawyer, Dimitrios Biller, last month [...]

Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Daniel Howes
Selling Opel key to rebuilding GM

General Motors Co. is smaller, less in debt and governed by directors who appear to have a pulse.
It’s on the way to having fewer brands, fewer plants, fewer dealers in North America, fewer employees worldwide and fewer corporate officers at the top of the house. If [...]

GM to close 46 Canadian Saturn stores by year end
Penske, GM decide there was no business case for keeping stores
Chrissie Thompson
Automotive News | August 31, 2009 – 2:57 pm EST
Canada’s Saturn stores will wind down by the end of the year as a result of automotive entrepreneur Roger Penske’s purchase of the brand, General [...]

Continental to close electronics plant in Huntsville, Ala.
David Barkholz
Automotive News | August 31, 2009 – 4:50 pm EST
Continental AG’s U.S. subsidiary announced today that it will close its Huntsville, Ala., electronics plant by year end 2010 because the UAW failed to give contract concessions.
Union workers declined to open their current contract at the plant, [...]