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Business Briefing | Automobiles: General Motors Plans to Retain a Plant in England
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General Motors said on Thursday it would not close its Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port, England, and did not expect job cuts there.6 hours ago -
Pontiac drives into the Sunset
India Automotive —
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Pontiacs muscle car ethic simply wouldnt work in a world that wants hybrids and battery-powered electric cars that are clean and green. Goodbye, Pontiac... While Saab waits for its fate to be decided next week (the brand is likely to be closed forever), another General Motors brand – Pontiac – has reached the ...7 hours ago -
GM planning to cut about 9,000 jobs in Europe
Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com —
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Most of the 9,000 job cuts that General Motors Co. is planning for its European operations will be affecting its workforce in Germany. Nick Reilly, GM’s acting head of European operations, said that as the carmaker reorganizes its Opel/Vauxhall division, it plans to cut about 5,400 jobs at its German factories but ...10 hours ago -
Beijing has seen the future and knows it must be green | Isabel Hilton
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
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While China aims to hold the patents on tomorrows clean technologies, the US remains in the climate change dark ages China has finally put some numbers to its climate plans, a significant move in the multidimensional elaborate game of the Copenhagen climate summit . China, Hu Jintao promised yesterday, will ...16 hours ago -
Pontiac Rolls into History Books, RIP
Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets —
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This Thanksgiving week, General Motors has officially ceased production of it’s Pontiac brand of vehicles as a result of the bailout by the U.S. government. Not only could the car maker not meet it’s financial obligations but, the fact is that the car’s brand no longer had the appeal it once did and sales ...18 hours ago -
Autocar Performance Show 2009 Highlights
CarWale.com BlogIndian Car Industry News & Views - —
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The Autocar Performance Show held at the MMRDA grounds in Bandra-Kurla complex saw car manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, Skoda Auto, Ford, Hyundai, Honda, Toyota, Jaguar and Land Rover, Fiat India, Premier and Mahindra & Mahindra displaying their cars. MapMyIndia was there in full force with their ...22 hours ago -
TOP 5 AUTOMOTIVE TURKEYS FOR U.S. THANKSGIVING
Good Car Bad Car —
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Yesterday a turkey arrived at the White House just so President Obama could issue a pardon, thus saving the turkeys life. As a result of hundreds of millions of dollars forked over to automakers since Thanksgiving 08, this Top 5 Turkey list is a lot different than it could have been. See, two years ago the ...22 hours ago -
Opel confirms slashing 9,500 jobs in Europe
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The US auto maker General Motors has confirmed it will retain all four plants of its European subsidiary Opel in Germany but will cut 9,500 jobs IN Europe as part of restructuring to make the company profitable again.1 day ago -
2011 Buick Regal to be built in Ontario
Autos Fans —
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By General Motors of CanadaOshawa, ON, — North American production of the all-new 2011 Buick Regal was today confirmed for the Oshawa Car Assembly plant beginning in Q1 2011. The new 2011 Regal is a midsize sport sedan based on the award-winning Opel Insignia – the 2009 “European Car of the Year” – and it ...1 day ago -
Saab sale falls through
Green cars: latest news —
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The potential sale of General Motors’ Saab brand has fallen through after Koenigsegg Group AB terminated its agreement to purchase the company. GM and Koenigsegg had initially signed a stock purchase agreement regarding the sale of 100 per cent of the shares of Saab Automobile AB in August. Conditions to the sale ...1 day ago -
Saab likely to close as GM fails to sell car brand (not even leftie Sweden will do buyouts!)
Stupidica —
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A deal for General Motors Co. to sell Saab to a specialty carmaker has collapsed, leaving the storied Swedish brand born from jets in 1947 close to extinction. Koenigsegg Group AB, a consortium formed by Swedish luxury sports car maker Koenigsegg Automotive AB, said Tuesday it pulled out of the deal in part because it ...1 day ago -
G.M. Says It Wont Close Plants in Germany
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Christine Lieberknecht, the premier of Thuringia state, with Nick Reilly, the head of G.M.’s international operations, in Ruesselsheim, Germany on Wednesday.1 day ago -
General Motors pays back a loan from Germany
Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com —
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After backtracking on plans to sell Opel to Magna International Inc., General Motors Co. was able to pay back a loan from Germany and has even decided to lower the number of job cuts planned for Opel workers. Instead of the 10,000 to 50,000 jobs believed to be cut from Opel’s European workforce in its [...]1 day ago -
Source: GM not talking to any new Saab suitors
Detroit Business News —
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A person briefed on General Motors Co.s plans says the automaker has not talked to any other potential buyers for the Swedish Saab brand.1 day ago -
Episode 279 – Saab On Its Deathbed, China Sales To Soar, Most Drivers Ignore Recalls
John's Journal —
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Runtime 7:11 Swedish luxury automaker Koenigsegg announced that it was pulling out of its deal to buy Saab. Auto sales in China are expected to grow by 1 million units per year for the next 10 years. Why most consumers will ignore Toyota’s latest recall. All that and more, plus German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...1 day ago -
General Motors to cut about 9,000 jobs in Europe
Thaindian News —
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Berlin, Nov 25 (DPA) General Motors is to reduce its Opel workforce in Europe by about 9,000, the US car company’s new chief executive for Europe, Nick Reilly, said Wednesday in Germany on a tour to meet political and labour leaders.The company aimed to cut manufacturing capacity by 20 percent, said Reilly three ...1 day ago -
Brian Hernacki on Startup Culture in Silicon Valley
TechDrawl —
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Click here to view the embedded video. Russell Jurney interviews Brian Hernacki , Chief Security Architect at Palm , about garage startups, the density of talent, and the unique culture in Silicon Valley. Hernacki moved from Ann Arbor to the Valley 13-14 years ago. This post is #10 in a series from research by ...1 day ago -
Opel’s German factories safe under GM
Leftlane - news, reviews, and info for the auto-industry —
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Quelling fears among Opel’s domestic workforce, General Motors announced on Wednesday that the company will not be closing any of its German factories. It was previously believed that GM would shutter one or more of Opel’s four German factories.Thanks $4.92 billion restructuring plan from parent General Motors, ...1 day ago -
GM Gives The Feds An Early Holiday Gift: $140 Million
Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog —
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Just last week, General Motors announced plans to speed up repayment of billions in loans from the U.S. government. Technically, the company’s fast-track, $1 billion-per-quarter payback schedule doesn’t kick in until December, but GM is getting a head start on things by returning $140 million right now. The cash ...1 day ago -
GM confirms Germany will bear brunt of 9,000 European job losses
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
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US carmarker confirms scale of losses at meeting with unions, saying difficult decisions needed to be made General Motors firmed up plans today to cut 9,000 jobs across Europe, saying that up to 60% would be in Germany. Nick Reilly, the US carmakers head of international operations, met employee representatives in ...1 day ago
