General Motors News

In this July 10, 2009 file photo, General Motors Corp. Chairman Edward Whitacre Jr.

President and CEO Fritz Henderson speaks during a news conference at company headquarters in Detroit, Monday, Nov.

By Thomas Watson Thomas Watson is a senior writer with Canadian Business . Prior to joining the magazine, he was a financial journalist and feature writer at the National Post , where he focused on the technology, auto and steel industries.

General Motors Co. said it expects to release a full restructuring plan for its Opel and Vauxhall operations in mid December, but did not specify the amount of cuts to capacity and jobs it would seek.

Chief Engineer Andrew Farah and battery engineering group manager Bill Wallace provided a run down on the work done so far.

I'm sitting in a Toyota Prius, testing out the new HALOsonic External Sound Synthesis technology, which could both save lives and liven up the morning commute no end.

GM's 13-member board was meeting on Tuesday in Detroit. Photograph by: CLEMENS BILAN/AFP/Getty Images, CLEMENS BILAN/AFP/Getty Images Canadian millionaire Frank Stronacha s lifelong dream to own his own carmaker is on ice.

Royal Oak -- Even on their days off, the engineers creating the Chevrolet Volt are working.

It was only a few months ago that Detroit was on its deathbed. ford4_getty.jpg Photograph by : Getty Images Two of its largest employers, General Motors and Chrysler, were on the brink of collapse and pleading for a financial lifeline.

General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Fritz Henderson , buoyed by $50 billion in U.S. bankruptcy aid, slashed debt and operating costs without returning to profit.

General Motors raised union hopes that there could be fewer redundancies at Vauxhall now the U.S. parent company has decided not to sell the historic car marque.

Ever since they married, Taiwan Garner, a General Motors factory man, and Alondra Garner, a stay-at-home mom, had daydreamed about opening a restaurant where the food would be as warm and welcoming as Sunday dinner with family.

General Motors Co. is promising to keep its headquarters in Detroit in return for expanded state tax credits approved today.

Major automakers have again embraced leasing as the practice becomes more profitable.

General Motors has offered union workers at the automaker's soon-to-be idled Tennessee assembly plant 840 jobs at Lansing Delta Township, Mich., where GM is relocating production of the Chevrolet Traverse.

The compact sedan has been available in Europe and across the Pacific for over a year, but will finally go on sale in the States in the third quarter of 2010.

General Motors had hoped most Camaro customers would go for the V6 , but so far, most people are buying the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro with a V8 .

Big shots from General Motors like Bob Lutz have recently painted a portrait of the company's Buick brand as a Lexus alternative [see previous coverage HERE]. It appears, however, that the anti-Lexus brand strategy for Buick is not altogether harmonious.

General Motors is going after state tax breaks to help keep 2,500 corporate workers in its Renaissance Center headquarters in downtown Detroit, according to the Detroit Free Press, but another 1,500 employees could be forced to move.

In a sign that General Motors Co.'s restructuring is off to a good start, the company said Monday that it would begin repaying U.S. government loans this year, ahead of what is required, and that it generated $3.3 billion in cash during the third quarter after emerging from bankruptcy.