Suburban Scrawl (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
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...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
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...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
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...
World Auto News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
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. Copyright © 2007 World Auto News & Reviews This feed is intended only for the personal, not commercial...
Leftlane (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
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 [...]
People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
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...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
• 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....
Green Car Advisor (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
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...
Consumer Reports Cars Blog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
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...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
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...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
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...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
Filed under: Volkswagen If you close your eyes and think about the Volkswagen product lineup, products like the Golf, Jetta, and Passat are sure to come to mind. Most won't picture the Routan minivan , because most Americans don't even know the rebadged Dodge Grand Caravan exists. Sales of the Routan are so bad that the minivan hasn't been made since January, and production isn't picking up again...
North Country Gazette (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
ONONDAGA COUNTY—Three people have died in a two-car collision on I-481 in the Town of Clay including the operator of a vehicle traveling the wrong way. State Police said the accident happened about 10:32 p.m. Friday in the northbound lane of I-481 just north of the Henry Clay overpass. A 2007 Pontiac G-6 operated by Gary L. [...]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Made in Michigan Here is how vehicles assembled in Michigan sold last month. Note that some models also are made elsewhere. Vehicle City June 2009 % change YTD 2009 % change GENERAL MOTORS Buick Enclave Lansing 3,771 26.3% 20,876 -4% Buick Lucerne Detroit/Hamtramck 2,843 -26.8% 16,359 -40.8% Cadillac CTS Lansing 3,193 -31% 20,559 -35.7% Cadillac DTS Detroit/Hamtramck 1,627 -27.2% 8,110 -50% Cadillac...
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trymi | 05/12/2009
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.
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