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 ...

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is a big fan of recycling, so it probably warms his heart to see Spark Capital founder Todd Dagres recycling his November suggestion that General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) should replace Rick Wagoner with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) founder and CEO Steve Jobs. Dagr...

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...

Interest groups spent $17.4 million for every day Congress was in session. Lobbying growth for finance sector and auto industry is smaller in tough times. WASHINGTON--While companies across the board were losing record amounts of money and laying off employees last year, at least one industry s...

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...

Filed under: General Motors (GM) Well that didn't take long: General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM) has received the first $4 billion of $9.4 billion in low-cost loans that the company is set to receive from the federal government. The company will be able to tap the funds almost immediately, which i...

Image via Wikipedia The Holocaust From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [show]Map of all coordinates “Selection” on the Judenrampe, Auschwitz, May/June 1944. To be sent to the right meant slave labor; to the left, the gas chambers. This image shows the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carp...

Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing It's hardly unexpected given recent gloomy sales numbers, but General Motors announced today that they will be cutting shifts at several North American plants. Unfortunately, nearly 2,000 workers will lose their jobs in the process as GM eliminates its third shift t...

Why, when Wall Street took the fast lane to grab its share of $700 billion in federal bailout funds, does the auto industry seem stuck in neutral? The carmakers' campaign contributions to Congress suggest one reason: Most lawmakers, especially those on the finance committees that heard this week fro...

Like a gas tank hungry for cheap fuel, Americans are yearning for an energy policy from their next president. Recognizing the importance of the energy issue in November's election, both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama have been touting their plans, but consumers aren't the only ones...