In the upheaval that swallowed up GM, there were bound to be some casualties. Unfortunately, Pontiac was one of those casualties. With a notification in April that the brand would be terminated, GM built its last Pontiac, a G6 sedan, at around 12:45pm yesterday. As you can imagine, there were no celebrations. In fact, the only people allowed in the facility were a group of "final process"...
General Motors built the last Pontiac for the U.S. market on Wednesday, reports The Detroit News. The white Pontiac G6 sedan rolled off the assembly line around 12:45 p.m and there was no celebration, GM officials or media on hand. The only people allowed in the facility were a group of “final process” workers to oversee [...]
Oprah's career as host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" has spanned decades, making for many memorable moments. In conjunction with the announcement of ceasing production of her talk show in September 2011, the woman who has come to be known as Lady O selected her "Top 20 Moments." Of all of the celebrity guests she has welcomed to her studio, one in particular stands out. Oprah nominated...
In case you hadn't yet noticed, I can be a little bit quirky. Though I am a card-carrying, Type A Control Freak when I want to be *, I have a few issues that are slightly more off-the-beaten-path, like my weird way of anthropomorphizing** cars. I'm not even talking about naming our cars. I don't do that. Remember when that was all the rage though, in the 1970s? I think everyone's station wagon was...
A Chicago man was fatally shot outside of his home Thursday evening in the South Austin neighborhood, officials said. Brandon Chambers, 21, of the 100 block of North Lavergne Avenue was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 9:41 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez said police are conducting a homicide investigation. Chambers...
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing , GM With all of the factories that General Motors is closing down and the brands being eliminated, there has been plenty of bad news for GM's blue collar staff over the past year. This week, there was finally a bit of good news as three factories got word that they would add third shifts in the coming months. The Fairfax, KS, Lansing-Delta Twp, MI and Ft Wayne, IN...
General Motors has announced that it will drop the GM badge from its entire product line by the 2011 model year. GM began placing small GM badges on its vehicles beginning with the Pontiac G6 in 2005, but will move away from the logo to put a greater emphasis on the company’s core brands. The [...]
U.S. automaker General Motors Co. (GM) plans to boost production at several factories due to higher sales from the federal "cash for clunkers" program, the company said Tuesday. GM spokesman Chris Lee said Gm's Orion plant in Michigan, which makes the Chevrolet Malibu and Pontiac G6 midsize sedans, will pick up a day of production on Aug. 28 while its Lordstown plant near Detroit, which makes...
DETROIT (AP) -- Higher sales, in part from the government's Cash for Clunkers program, are spurring General Motors Co. to boost production at several of its factories. The automaker said Tuesday it will add 60,000 vehicles to its production in the third and mainly the fourth quarter. It will also bring back about 1,350 laid-off workers in the U.S. and Canada. GM will add a shift to its CAMI factory...
• US 'cash for clunkers' programme helped spur sales • Carmaker plans to add shifts to various plants Higher sales, in part from the US government's "cash for clunkers" programme, are spurring General Motors Company to boost production at several of its factories. The automaker said today it will add 60,000 vehicles to its production in the third quarter and mainly the fourth quarter....
As more customers buy cars under the cash-for-clunkers program, General Motors is adding more shifts and offering workers overtime at Ohio and Michigan plants to meet the new demand. The shifts have been added at plants where the Chevrolet Malibu and Pontiac G6 sedans and Chevrolet Cobalt ( pictured ) compact are assembled, GM spokesman Chris Lee said. GM's sales of cars and light trucks decreased...
The king-maker of midday, Oprah Winfrey will give away Volkswagen Routan minivans on her popular television program this summer. In 2004, The Oprah Winfrey Show gave away 276 Pontiac G6’s, making a massive media splash in the process. Promoted as making dreams come true, many winners faced with taxes on their winnings were not able to keep their cars. Presumably, the smaller-scale VW promotion...
Using a clever formula, Forbes created a list of vehicles with a sales value below its suggested retail value. Unfortunately, it misses one piece — why these vehicles suck. That's why we've created an index to explain it. Click next to see what that index is and how we'll present these ten vehicles. This list takes the actual market value of the vehicle (i.e. what it actually sells for after...
Joseph Pabon and Lisa Marie Blumenberg, via Staten Island Advance The NYPD has no suspects in the murder of Eridania Rodriguez, a cleaning woman who was asphyxiated with construction tape last Tuesday night in an air duct at the building where she worked. But the building's freight elevator operator, 26-year-old Joseph Pabon from Staten Island, is still under surveillance by the NYPD, and last night...
In order to streamline its models across its brands GM is getting rid of its poorly performing sports models. Two casualties in the GM streamlining list are the Impala SS version for 2010 and the 2010 Cobalt sedan which the company will no longer be offering.