Filed under: Industry, Documentary, Reality-Free General Motors has made a lot of dumb decisions in their day, and three-quarters of them are still being sold to gullible car-buyers across the globe. However, one of their biggest, boneheaded moves doesn't involve a car at all. The soon-to-be-former ...

General Motors lost a few bucks in 2008. Okay, that’s a bit of an understatement. For the fiscal year ending December 2008 the Detroit auto manufacturer lost $30.9 billion. Not only is losing money the main business of GM these days, it’s an expensive one. GM also stated they burned thro...

| | This is one of the greatest responses to the requests for bailout money I have seen thus far. As a supplier for the Big 3 this man received a letter from the President of GM North America requesting support for the bail out program. His response is classic, and has to make you proud of a local g...

Yesterday was the deadline for General Motors and Chrysler to submit their respective recovery plans to Congress in a bid to show that they are making good faith efforts to move forward, with each company beating the 5 p.m. deadline handily. By last night news of what was in each report began to sur...

Filed under: General Motors (GM) General Motors (NYSE: GM) has presented its turnaround plan to the Treasury Department, and claims that it can return to profitability. But those projections may well be a classic case of garbage in, garbage out. If GM's sales estimates are more optimistic than the r...

From MSNBC There were about 7.8 million part-time workers who would rather be working full-time as of January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a whopping 65 percent increase over a year earlier and about the same as the previous month. The sharpest increase in the number of so-called â€...

The New York Times has a good story on how hard it is for people laid of from General Motors to go on with their lives. He still has not decided whether to try to transfer to another G.M. plant, change occupations or return to school. Visiting the local United Automobile Workers hall recently, Mr. C...

In response to Corporate blogging isn’t trusted; it’s up to us to fight back NOW, anonymous asked, “Can you provide links to and comments about what you think are effective corporate blogs? I have yet to see one, but I can’t say I’ve been looking… Thanks,” and this ...

Filed under: Economy, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchbacks, Saturn If you've been looking to spec a new Astra like Autoblog reader ramirez8167, you may have noticed that you can't build or locate a 2009 model on Saturn's website. That's because there isn't one. With plenty of dealer stock on-hand for th...

Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's a well-preserved Malaise Cadillac for you. Malaise Cadillacs are extremely commonplace in junkyards; they sold in large numbers and were pretty well-mad...