Vauxhall Refuses to Sell Chinese MG Cars in the UK
16 Dec 2010, 08:59 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After GM's admitted earlier this week that it talks with SAIC over certain plans the Chinese have for the British market, Vauxhall was believed to turn into a distribution hub for the MG-brande...
First Chevrolet Volt Sold for $225,000
15 Dec 2010, 07:48 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / General Motors has just revealed that the first-ever produced Chevrolet Volt was sold for $225,000 during the online action that closed yesterday at 6 p.m. The name of the winner is not yet availabl...
GM, Safe Kids USA Launch Countdown2Drive Online Tool
14 Dec 2010, 15:21 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The General Motors Foundation has joined forces with Safe Kids USA to develop the so-called Countdown2Drive web-based interface that lets parents and teenagers prepare themselves for the big moment ...
Multiple Buyers for Opel's Antwerp Plant?
14 Dec 2010, 13:53 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / While General Motors continues its plans to shut down the Opel Antwerp facility, rumors regarding investors that might be interested in the factory emerge on a daily basis. The mysterious Chinese in...
SAIC Wants Access to GM's UK Dealer Network
14 Dec 2010, 13:13 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / General Motors is negotiating with its Chinese partner Shanghai Automotive (SAIC) to sell new MGs developed in China through GM's UK dealer network. "We have agreed in an MOU that we wo...
GM "Buys Out" Skilled Trades Workers' Contracts
14 Dec 2010, 09:23 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / GM said it is offering buyouts to several thousand skilled trades workers at 14 of its US plants. Eligible workers will be paid $60,000 to retire with full benefits, while younger workers will have ...
Half of GM Plants Recycle Waste
13 Dec 2010, 19:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Perhaps an achievement even bigger then the launch of the Chevrolet Volt when it comes to the environment is American manufacturer's GM commitment to recycling the waste by its facilities. So f...
Nine American States Interested in Holden Caprice Cop-Car
13 Dec 2010, 18:47 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / US Police departments in at least nine states have expressed their interest for the Holden-made Chevrolet Caprice Police Pursuit Vehicle (PPV) that is set to go into production next year. That do...
Unions Perplexed by Opel's Antwerp Developments
13 Dec 2010, 13:38 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / A Chinese investor is willing to take over the plant, the Port Authority is willing to make a bid for it too but even so, General Motors continues its plans to wind down the local operations. Unions...
GM Readies CNG Vans
13 Dec 2010, 07:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the only major manufacturer in the US to offer a one-source van (Compressed Natural Gas) CNG option for its products, GM announced over the weekend it had finished working on the CNG system which...
Ford and GM to Teach ELP about EVs
13 Dec 2010, 07:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two of the three big American manufacturers, which will start rolling off electric vehicles beginning the end of this year, have decided to give a helping hand to the electric utility companies by s...
GM CEO Pokes Fun at Toyota Prius
12 Dec 2010, 10:46 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Now that Chevrolet Volt is out in the wild, those working for General Motors are trying whatever it’s possible to make people give the Volt a chance. And if this also included making fun of th...
GM Caps Workers' Wages for 2011
11 Dec 2010, 17:52 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / GM’s 26,000 salaried employees won’t get a raise in 2011, in spite of a turnaround in the company’s balance sheet, and CEO Dan Ackerson requesting “greater flexibility”...
A Golden Spike for GM
11 Dec 2010, 09:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Whatever the history books will say about GM and the way it navigated through 2009, the carmaker has made a huge contribution, only a year after bankruptcy, to the shaping of the future automotive w...
Former GM Vice President of Design Chuck Jordan Dies at 83
11 Dec 2010, 09:52 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Say day for General Motors as Charles M. “Chuck” Jordan, GM Vice President of Design from 1986 to 1992, died at the age of 83. At the time of his appointment, Chuck Jordan was the fourth...
GM Donates $27.1M to United Way for Southeastern Michigan
10 Dec 2010, 15:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After having received billions from the US government to stay afloat last year, American manufacturer GM is now trying to make it up to the taxpayers, by announcing small, but very flashy donations....
Revenge of the Electric Car Trailer Released
10 Dec 2010, 11:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2006, film maker Chris Paine was a very, very sad man. That year, the dream of having electric cars buzzing on the world's roads shattered, as some 5,000 such vehicles were destroyed by...
Holden Cruze Gets New Diesel Engine
10 Dec 2010, 11:04 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / When the GM Holden factory in Elizabeth, South Australia kicks off production next year in January, it will produce the Holden Cruze with a new 2.0-liter turbo diesel engine, among the three-engine...
Port Authority Aiming to Buy Antwerp Opel Plant
10 Dec 2010, 09:49 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Opel's Antwerp plant, still sentenced to death after General Motors decided to close the facility by year end, might have a chance to survive as Port Authority is looking into ways to buy the 9...
GM Opens New Production Plant in China
10 Dec 2010, 08:52 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / General Motors has just announced the opening of a new plant in China which will be operated together with its local partner FAW Group as part of a 50-50 joint venture they formed in 2009. The new f...