General Motors News

Chevrolet Performance will present the 18th annual Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour from June 2-8, 2012 starting in Detroit, Michigan and finishing in Arlington, Texas.

This Feb. 19, 2012 file photo shows a line of 2012 Prius sedans at a Toyota dealership in the south Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo.

The cover jacket of "Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars" by Paul Ingrassia.

"It's not like 2008, with crazy incentives any more," said senior analyst Ivan Drury of car website Edmunds.com. That's because Detroit - which once felt building too many cars and "dumping" them with rebates cost less than closing plants and paying union workers' severance - downsized following Chrysler's and General Motors' 2008 bankruptcies.

The Fallon ad agency is attempting to rebrand the Cadillac image. Veda Partalo, left, Pat Fallon and Bruce Bildsten are key members of the Fallon team.

He's only half-kidding. Every other weekend, he and his roommate pack the car and drive straight to Tennessee at the end of their graveyard shift at General Motors Co.'s Lansing Delta Township assembly plant.

General Motors Co. said it recently learned that Pernilla Ammann, the wife of Chief Financial Officer Dan Ammann, is an officer and a partner in an advertising agency that received about $600,000 for services last year to a GM subsidiary.

Detroit, MI -- General Motors told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today that it failed to report a $600,000 deal given to an advertising agency where the wife of a top GM executive is a partner.

Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. said it has approved selling back to General Motors Co.

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US cable TV channel Velocity has aired a three-part series about Carrol Shelby. It looked at his early days as a chicken farmer and race car driver in Texas, his 1959 win at Le Mans with Aston Martin, the heart troubles that forced him to quit racing, his deal with Ford to build the AC Cobra, his work with Chrysler, and his renewed deal with Ford ... (more)

General Motors Co. said it recently learned that Pernilla Ammann, the wife of Chief Financial Officer Dan Ammann, is an officer and a parter in an advertising agency that received about $600,000 for services last year to a GM subsidiary.

General Motors gave more responsibility to fast-rising executive Alicia Boler-Davis, making her vice president of global quality and U.S. customer experience, the automaker announced Thursday.

Toyota is looking to emerging markets for growth, targeting 50 percent of its global vehicle sales there by 2015, and rolling out eight compact models over the next few years.

Whaddya think, that Volt buyers were trading in a Cadillac for their new plug-ins? Nope.

General Motors presented Ken Batchelor Cadillac with its Master Dealer and Dealer of the Year honors.

The Chevy Volt, an extended range electric vehicle, can travel about 35 miles before its gas engine kicks in to charge its battery.

DETROIT, May 23 -- General Motors issued the following news release: More than 821,000 active users of OnStar's RemoteLink mobile app have checked their tire pressure, how much gas is in their tank and unlocked their doors as part of the more than 14 million interactions that have occurred since the auto industry-first mobile app debuted in 2010.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has expanded its investigation into fires in the Chevy Cruze to a second model year.

Saturday, May 26 will mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Overpass, the infamous encounter between leaders of a young United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co.