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GM To Begin Repaying Aid By Year-End

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — General Motors Co. will begin paying back $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans by the end of 2009 and could pay off that full amou...

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Is Harley-Davidson the Next Casualty?

Steve Parker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

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How can Harley-Davidson stem the bleeding of red ink?

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Saturn: New Ring Discovered By NASA Telescope

AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

PASADENA, Calif. — The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA's Jet Propul...

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What Really Happened? Penske Drops Saturn bid; GM Says Division Doomed

Steve Parker | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business

Roger Penske's failure will almost certainly result in Saturn's demise, and publicly, officially and finally ends the Roger Smith era at GM.

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Penske Saturn Deal Falls Apart: GM To Shut Down Brand

AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

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DETROIT — General Motors Co. said Wednesday it would shut down its Saturn brand after an agreement with Penske Automotive Group Inc. to acquire ...

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GM's "60-day Buy Back" plan - more gimmicks or smart sales move?

Steve Parker | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

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Another "Hail Mary" from GM? Or the real thing? Starting today and running through November, General Motors is offering buyers of their Core Four bra...

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NASA Spacecraft Reveals Mysterious Object Punching Through One Of Saturn's Rings

Huffington Post | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

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What is going on with Saturn's rings? It appears that recent images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal what seems to be a small object that has rip...

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NASA Spacecraft Spots New "Moonlet" In Saturn's Rings

wired.com | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered a new object in Saturn's rings. By capitalizing on the angle of sunlight cast on the rings as the planet n...

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GM Must Cut Buick, GMC Now

Steve Parker | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business

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General Motors must drop their Buick and GMC divisions. And do it now. The number of people already put out of work by the Amazingly-Shrinking Genera...

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GM Saturn Sale: Roger Penske Will Buy Brand

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

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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...

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GM Says It Has 16 Suitors For Saturn

CBS News | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

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General Motors Corp. says it has 16 buyers interested in purchasing its Saturn brand, while three parties are interested in the Swedish Saab brand. ...

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Saturn, Saab, Hummer: What You Need To Know

Wall Street Journal | MIKE SPECTOR | Posted 03.21.2009 | Business

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General Motors Corp. could shed its Saturn and Hummer brands as part of its viability plan submitted to the Obama administration Tuesday. The future o...

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GM, Chrysler Want Billions More

Steve Parker | Posted 03.21.2009 | Business

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Incidentally, GM got another $4 billion Tuesday after turning in their plan. Were you ever rewarded that much just for doing your homework?

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Forty Years Later Still Not One Planet

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 01.24.2009 | Living

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Maybe it's time we stop looking in our churches, in our White House or on our TV for answers and start remembering that we've got one world. Make the best of it.

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GM's Own "Heritage Collection" Is Now Up for Sale

Steve Parker | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

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GM is selling off, one-by-one, piece-by-piece, memory-by-memory, the GM Heritage Collection. Finding out felt like I'd taken a punch to the gut.

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The Last GM Makeover Attempt Didn't Go So Well

New York Times, 24/7 Wall Street | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business

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The Big Three CEOs have arrived in Washington to ask for a reported $34 billion bailout, presenting viability plans for using that money. But the viab...

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Car Sales Tank; Detroit Visits DC, Pt. II

Steve Parker | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business

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Now that they have our attention, the Detroit Three, in plans submitted to Congress Tuesday, increased their appeals for federal loans from $25 billion to $34 billion.

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Los Angeles Auto Show -- Clean Diesels Clean Up

Steve Parker | Posted 12.28.2008 | Business

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At this year's Los Angeles Auto Show, the 205-mile per hour, $100,000, 2009 Corvette ZR1 is relegated to the very rear of the Chevrolet exhibit, like the "adults only" section in video stores.

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Memo to Detroit: Change Now or Die

Steve Parker | Posted 12.16.2008 | Business

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Most Americans think you have brought this disaster upon yourselves, with inferior, irrelevant products the past 35 years.

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Precipitous fifteen-year drop in US car sales; Need one? You probably can't get one

Steve Parker | Posted 11.02.2008 | Business

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They say "start out bad news with a joke," so: In Peter Gent's "North Dallas Forty," a football coach is talking with the team owner's son about his f...

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THE LATEST: $25 BILLION FOR DETROIT; PRODUCTION CHEVY VOLT PLUG-IN HYBRID UNVEILED

Steve Parker | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green

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Today's Detroit News newspaper reports that, because big investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase own huge amounts of GM and Ford cor...

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Oil Supply Flows On Saturn's Moon

Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green

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John McCain wants to drill, drill, drill; oil execs tell him that it will bring the price down quickly. In fact, he credits President Bush just talkin...

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The Detroit Three --- Making Any Relevant Cars or Trucks?

Steve Parker | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business

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That the Detroit Three have to build cars and trucks which make sense now and in the future, and which Americans want to buy.

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