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GM to Buy Back All Pontiac Azteks for Cash!

Gerald Sindell | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business


Gerald Sindell

I'm offering it for free: my brilliant idea for GM to salvage its reputation.

Mort Zuckerman Offers GM 6 Months Of Free Rent To Stay Put: Report

New York Post | John Crudele | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York


NOW that its wallet is fat with billions in taxpayer money, General Motors is reconsidering moving its New York offices out of the ultra-expensive bui...

CEO vows better performance as GM exits bankruptcy

AP | TOM KRISHER and KEN THOMAS | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business


DETROIT — General Motors completed an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy protection on Friday with ambitions of making money and building cars...

As GM Owners, Americans Need to Look to Their Declaration

Jamie Court | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Jamie Court

Now the time has come for the White House to extend a hand to the families who lost loved ones in exploding GM cars, particularly given the other financial priorities in the bankruptcy plan.

Government Assisted Suicide? GM Goes Bankrupt

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business


Bernie Bulkin

Shai Agassi's goal to take whole countries and turn them into electric vehicle only countries just might happen.

GM Pension Fund: Is It Under Funded

nytimes.com | MARY WILLIAMS WALSH | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business


General Motors is using its huge pension fund in a way it never intended. It had planned -- and put money aside -- for a steady march of retirees o...

GM Bankruptcy: Government May Never Recoup Its Investment

washingtonpost.com | Peter Whoriskey | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business


If a new General Motors emerges from bankruptcy as planned, U.S. financial aid for the company will expand to nearly $50 billion, but neither the gove...

Michigan Gets GM Small Car Plant, Will Create 1,200 Jobs

AP | ERIK SCHELZIG | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business


SPRING HILL, Tenn. — Workers at General Motors' soon-to-be-idled assembly plant in Tennessee held out hope for a reprieve, but now it's back to ...

GM To Cut 4,000 White-Collar Jobs This Year

AP | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business


DETROIT (AP) -- About 4,000 more salaried workers at General Motors Corp. will lose their jobs by the end of the year as the automaker continues to do...

Iacocca: GM, Chrysler Need To Repay U.S. Loans Fast

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business


DETROIT — Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca has some advice for the people who are running his old company, and those who will lead the new Genera...

GM Saab Sale: Swedish Koenigsegg Will Buy Brand

AP | LOUISE NORDSTROM | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business


STOCKHOLM — Saab Automobile, General Motors Corp.'s struggling Swedish unit known for its family cars, was rescued Tuesday by a consortium led b...

Arthur Delaney

Chrysler-GM Dealership Owner Gets Choked Up At Hearing (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business


The owner of a soon-to-be closed car dealership got choked up today while speaking out against General Motors' and Chrysler's plans to close hundreds ...

GM Dealerships Saved From Closing

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 07.22.2009 | Business


UPDATE: With the help of citizen investigators who have been tracking local reports, we've managed to find 10 of the lucky 41 GM dealerships that were...

Arthur Delaney

GM Bankruptcy: HuffPost Readers Report The Hurt

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business


The Huffington Post asked readers on June 2 to weigh in on how the General Motors bankruptcy would affect their towns and lives. Dozens of residents o...

Whitacre, New GM Chairman: "I Don't Know Anything About Cars"

bloomberg.com | Amy Thomson and Katie Merx | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business


No car experience is necessary to take a top spot at the bankrupt icon of Detroit's automobile industry. Believe it or not, the newly appointed ch...

GM Means get Moving

Charlie Cray | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business


Charlie Cray

Everyone wants a viable auto industry with GM returning to its status as a world-class automaker. But the Obama team's GM plan doesn't embrace public standards on energy and the environment.

Left, Right & Center: Obama's MidEast Speech, Unemployment and GM, Now What?

Huff Radio | Posted 07.06.2009 | Home


Huff Radio

This was an intense show -- very good and interesting -- first about the aspirational nature of Obama's Cairo speech, then a serious take on the still-tanking economy. Lots of steak, not just sizzle.

GM Saturn Sale: Roger Penske Will Buy Brand

AP | DAN STRUMPF and TOM KRISHER | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — General Motors Corp. has a tentative deal to sell its Saturn brand to auto racing magnate Roger Penske's dealership group, both compa...

GM Bankruptcy Hurts People of Color Hardest. Workers Desperately Need EFCA.

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business


Seth Freed Wessler

In the economy we've inherited from the last three decades of deregulation and declining union density, people of color are increasingly relegated to low-wage, precarious work that pays too little to support a family.

Chrysler & GM: What Happens if Your Car Blows Up?

Don McNay | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business


Don McNay

I know I'll never forget that horrible sight, I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right. Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve. -Jan a...

Which GM Brands Will Last? (VOTE)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business


When General Motors filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, the century-old automaker announced that it would quickly cut a number of brands. The new ...

Hummer In China: Will It Be Fuel-Efficient?

TIME | Austin Ramzy | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business


The sale of General Motors' Hummer division to a Chinese buyer has yet to be finalized, but one thing about the future of the iconic American brand se...

An Open Letter to GM CEO Fritz Henderson

Gerald Sindell | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business


Gerald Sindell

Can an organization that has made so much truly ugly stuff suddenly start making great design?

GM Grows Towns, Then Leaves

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business


General Motors was once viewed as Miracle-Gro for small towns, taking places like Ontario, Ohio from a village of 700 people in 1956 to what is now a ...

Jason Linkins

Zipcar CEO Tells CNBC: No One Wants Chrysler, GM Products

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business


Zipcar's experience reveals what has to be the biggest barrier to reviving these automakers: nobody wants to even borrow their cars for a few hours.