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• Massive November car sales in China, India

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Dec 9 (IANS) Passenger car sales for November rose 61 percent in India and nearly doubled in China in a sign that Asia is increasingly driving the global car industry, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.The paper said the growth follows this week’s landmark deal under which the US carmaker General Motors ...
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• Paulson Bets on Stocks

  
  DealBook — Authority: 762
  John Paulson gave the equity markets a shout-out Tuesday, saying that he still sees compelling long-term returns in equities even after their sharp run-up this year.
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• VW to take up 20 per cent stake in Suzuki

  
  Indian Car Blog - Carazoo.com — Authority: 140
  Volkswagen AG plans to take a stake of up to 20 percent in Suzuki Motor Corp, providing Suzuki with a much-needed development partner and giving VW access to better small car technology. Though sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations have claimed that the Volkswagen’s stake could rise up easily so that ...
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• Congress seeks compromise on GM and Chrysler dealers

  
  Detroit Business News — Authority: 819
  AP photoA customer looks at vehicles at a General Motors dealership in Burlingame, California during the month of June 2009. WASHINGTON — House and Senate leaders proposed a compromise plan Tuesday to give shuttered General Motors and Chrysler dealers an...
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• Tax Payers Lose Again – General Motors & Chrysler

  
  Stock Market Analysis, Trading, And Financial Commentary - Rebel Traders — Authority: 135
  Remember the nearly $85 billion of “YOUR” money that was given to General Motors and Chrysler to rescue them from themselves? Yea, that $85 billion. Tax payers awoke one morning and discovered that they owned two car companies that unfortunately has since the mid 1980’s produced poorly designed and manufactured ...
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• Hybrid car sales soar in November

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 507
  Great news for hybrid cars, as reported US sales of the vehicles leapt by 21 per cent year on year in November 2009 to 20,003 units.Even though overall light duty vehicle sales were generally flat for the month, according to figures from Autodata, reported hybrid sales increased to now represent 2.7 per cent of the ...
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• More From the Pointless Ed Whitacre Webchat

  
  Straightline — Authority: 149
  Interim CEO of General Motors, Ed Whitacre, held a webchat this morning to answer questions from journalists. It was completely devoid of any meaningful news, as webchats often are, but Mr. Whitacre did manage to scare the crap out of current GM executives in addition to spelling out his vision for the future. A ...
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• REPORT: Spencer Stuart tasked with finding new GM CEO

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 746
  Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , GM Headhunting firm Spencer Stuart is without doubt on the speed-dial lists of bailed-out firms , having placed chairmen, CEOs, Chrysler Group LLC, and board members for AIG, Citigroup Inc., Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and GMAC. Then they flew over General Motors so that ...
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• G.M. Says It Hopes to Repay U.S. by End of 2010

  
  DealBook — Authority: 762
  The new president of North American operations at General Motors said Tuesday that the automaker hoped to repay its federal loans and become a public company again by the end of next year.
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• Former Saturn Boss Heads to smart USA

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 546
  Penske Automotive Group Inc. said Tuesday Jill Lajdziak, former general manager at General   Motors Co.s now-disbanded Saturn division, is joining Penskes smart USA Distributor LLC unit as vice president, sales and marketing. Lajdziaks appointment seems a strategy to address the startling drop-off of ...
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• GMs Whitacre Webchats With Media, Keeps it Lite

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 546
  General Motors Co. chairman and interim CEO Ed Whitacre conducted a webchat with automotive media Tuesday and the most that can be said is he obviously takes seriously the light connotation behind the term "chat." Although fielding several questions, Whitacre industriously said almost nothing of substance. The ...
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• NYT takes note of GM’s selection of Hamtramck plant for new Chevy Volt production

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 608
  The highly-anticipated Chevy Volt is gaining lots of attention these days as car enthusiasts — and especially green car enthusiasts — track the electric vehicle’s every move. In a story published this afternoon, the New York Times focuses on General Motors’ choice of its Hamtramck plant for final assembly ...
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• Former Saturn Boss Heads to smart USA

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 165
  Penske Automotive Group Inc. said Tuesday Jill Lajdziak, former general manager at General
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• Gas 2.0 Gaffes

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 708
  I find Gas 2.0 to be a pretty lively blog on various green transportation issues, but I also find it to be intermittently maddening. For example, this post on General Motors’ decision to invest in retooling one of its Detroit-area plants to build Chevy Volts, the extended-range electric car that’s supposed to ...
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• New GM North America President Has No Peanut Butter Answer

  
  Straightline — Authority: 149
  As part one of a two-part media blitz today, General Motors put newly appointed President of North America, Mark Reuss and just-as-newly appointed Vice President of Sales, Service and Marketing Susan Docherty on an early-morning teleconference with journalists who were surely still in their P.J.s. ...
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• Tiger Woods’ crashed Escalade to be auctioned

  
  Auto Motion — Authority: 473
  If there’s one vehicle that’s been all over the news (well, in addition to that seized Cizeta V16), it’s Tiger Woods’ infamous Cadillac Escalade, which the pro golfer crashed Nov. 27 under those mysterious late-night circumstances while leaving his Florida house.Now, another twist in this automotive tale: ...
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• Report: Obama administration to announce $30B bailout loss

  
  Leftlane - news, reviews, and info for the auto-industry — Authority: 628
  The federal government’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler was viewed as an iffy prospect from the beginning, but the latest reports indicate the United States tax payers will undoubtedly come out on the wrong side of the project.Although many government officials promised the money used to bailout GM and ...
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• Ed Whitacre: The Worlds Most Chilling Use of an Emoticon

  
  Straightline — Authority: 149
  During a live web chat with journalists this afternoon, GM Chairman and acting CEO Ed Whitacre, dropped what must surely be the most chilling use of an emoticon ever in the history of well, emoticons. See above. Just remember GM employees, Ed pwns u.
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• Chevrolet Volt or Jelly Doughnut? An Old Michigan City Will Make Both

  
  Wheels — Authority: 653
  Hamtramck, Michigan, a beleaguered city with a strong Polish heritage, received some good news this week. G.M. announced the Chevy Volt would be produced there.
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• Tiger Woods’ Escalade owned by GM, will be fixed and eventually sold

  
  Roy Foss Autoblog - Your source for automotive news in the GTA — Authority: 129
  Filed under: Etc. , Cadillac , Celebrities Tiger Woods GM-owned Cadillac Escalade, post crash - Click above for high-res image gallery The worlds most infamous 2009 Cadillac Escalade , the one Tiger Woods drove into a hydrant and then a tree early in the morning of November 27, is heading to the body ...
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