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• 193 vehicles returned under GMs 60-day satisfaction guarantee

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 767
  Filed under: Car Buying , GM Last month, General Motors raised some eye brows when it announced its 60-day satisfaction guarantee program giving customers the ability to drive their vehicles for 60 days and return them with zero minimal risk. A month ago, we told you that only one vehicle had been ...
  1 week ago

• GM Engineers Call Customers Who Returned Cars

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 567
  At the request of General Motors new chairman, Ed Whitacre, the automakers top engineers are calling the couple hundred customers who are returning or exchanging their GM cars under the 60-day money-back guarantee policy to find out why. Mark Reuss, GMs recently appointed vice president of global engineering, ...
  1 week ago

• GM Engineers Call Customers Who Returned Cars

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  At the request of General Motors new chairman, Ed Whitacre, the automakers top engineers are calling the couple hundred customers who are returning or exchanging their GM cars under the 60-day money-back guarantee policy to find out why. Mark Reuss, GMs recently appointed vice president of global engineering, told ...
  1 week ago

• Berlin To Whitacre: You Are Beyond Salvage

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  An uncouth interview, given by GM Chairman Ed Whitacre to the German newspaper Muenchner Merkur at the sidelines of an event at the Texas Lutheran University, has shut the doors on any donations Berlin may make to Opel’s cause. Aus. Vorbei. “I think we won’t be needing money from your government for Opel,” ...
  2 weeks ago

• TARP Watchdog Reiterates: Billions Loaned to Automakers Likely Lost

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 567
  Top executives at General Motors Co. and Chrysler LLC have both gone out of their way in the past week to say their once-bankrupt companies are positioning themselves to pay back the tens of billions of dollars loaned to them by the federal government. The man charged with overseeing the U.S. Dept. of Treasury ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pay Czar Removes Salary Cap for GM’s New Hires; Who Is GM’s $500k Man?

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Automotive News [sub] reports that President Obama’s Pay Czar has done an about face. Kenneth Feinberg pledged to remove the $500,000 salary cap for NEW executives hired for TARP-recipients—if he’s convinced that a rule-busting pay boost would help the bailout queens return U.S. taxpayer’s money. Feinberg’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quote Of The Day: The Five Billion Dollar Question Edition

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  The catalyst for all this was the EU saying you only made the money available to one investor. The board did what they should have done and revisited the issue… It’s been a confusing decision, but I don’t think it was handled badly. The circumstances changed from the time this started. The financial part of ...
  2 weeks ago

• GM to Repay Taxpayers. Definitely. Maybe.

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 700
  General Motors’ Chairman, Ed Whitacre, said yesterday that GM plans to pay back the government loans it accepted during its bailout/bankruptcy, contradicting a GAO report that maintained GM will never be able to return those taxpayers funds. On the one hand, GM seems to be doing better than anyone expected. Its ...
  2 weeks ago

• Episode 269 – VW Passes Toyota, No IPO For GM Next Year, Woman Finally Gets License

  
  John's Journal — Authority: 131
  Runtime 7:42 Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota as the number-one automaker in the world. GM’s chairman Ed Whitacre doubts the company can go public next year, even though management has been saying it would. A woman in South Korea gets her drivers license…after 950 tries. All that and more, plus John answers ...
  2 weeks ago

• GM Chairman Asks U.S. To Pay Auto Execs More Money [Carpocalypse]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 731
  We made fun of GM Chairman Whitacres speech yesterday in Seguin, imploring him to make some news. He did. He asked for the Feds to help out (other than by providing billions of taxpayer dollars) by modifying executive pay caps. Here is what he said, specifically, about the $500K limit on executive pay according ...
  2 weeks ago

• GMs Whitacre: A Sense of Urgency to Repay Taxpayer Money

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 567
  General Motors has made remarkable strides since emerging from bankruptcy July 10 and is "better positioned for success than I thought was possible" then, said Ed Whitacre in his first public speech since becoming GM chairman in July. "Were getting into a fighting shape. We have a long way to go, but ...
  2 weeks ago

• GM’s Whitacre: A Sense of Urgency to Repay Taxpayer Money

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  General Motors has
  2 weeks ago

• Ed Whitacre: GM Chairman, Shameless Self-Promoter [Carpocalypse]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 731
  GMs new chairman Ed Whitacre first made a splash pointlessly starring in a new GM commercial . Now GMs been forced to send out a release about an unimportant speech the Chief Self-Promotional Officers giving at Texas Lutheran University. How do we know its not an important speech? Its at Texas Lutheran University ...
  2 weeks ago

• GM yanks back Opel, jerks around German government

  
  Bizmology — Authority: 124
  Fritz Henderson, the president and CEO of General Motors , flew to Germany this week to follow up on GM’s surprising — nay, shocking — decision to take Adam Opel and Vauxhall Motors off the auction block, just weeks after designating Magna International and Sberbank as the preferred bidders for majority ...
  2 weeks ago

• The secret lives of auto executives

  
  Summit Notebook — Authority: 425
  Ed Whitacre sneaks off to breakfast at a Detroit greasy spoon. Sergio Marchionne’s attention to detail extends to the condition of his factories’ bathrooms. And Bill Ford helped save his great-grandfather’s company by hocking the blue oval.  These are just a few of the glimmers of top Detroit auto ...
  3 weeks ago

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