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GM’s Wagoner heading to Congress in Malibu Hybrid
While it won’t get him there as quickly (or as luxuriously) as a Gulfstream corporate jet, GM CEO Rick Wagoner will drive to Washington this week in a Chevrolet Malibu hybrid to ask for taxpayer-funded bridge loans. Last month, Wagoner, Ford CEO Alan Mulally and Chrysler LLC CEO Robert Nardelli, all received some serious flak [...]
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Mulally and Wagoner reconsider $1 salary for federal aid
Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli was the only auto exec who readily offered to work for a buck if it meant securing federal aid from Congress in the form of bridge loans. Ford CEO Alan Mulally famously told the politicians sitting before him, “I think I’m OK where I am.” We would be OK too with [...]
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Ford claims to be back in black by 2011, release EV sedan same year
In just a few short days, Ford and its two cross-town rivals will be required to lay down a plan before Congress that points a clear path towards profitability and global competitiveness. These days, any automaker’s future will involve plenty of greenery, and as the first of the three automakers to submit its comprehensive business [...]
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Mulally chooses Escape Hybrid for D.C. road trip
Ford CEO Alan Mulally has made the politically correct decision for his return trip to Washington DC this week and is skipping the company jet. In fact, he’s skipping the airport altogether and hitting the road in an Escape Hybrid. It seems like it would have been better to grab one of the brand new [...]
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Mulally driving to Washington, but what car should he drive?
It seems the entire world is still debating whether or not Rick Wagoner, Alan Mulally and Bob Nardelli should have carpooled, walked or taken the bus for their last trip to the Capitol, but that’s all behind us now. The good news for those who like to play expert on the internet is that Detroit’s [...]
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Ford to debut “post-kinetic” design language in Detroit
Even though Ford hasn’t admitted it, we all know what’s coming to Detroit. The 2010 Ford Taurus that’s been spied and rendered is on its way, and although FoMoCo’s design director, J Mays, won’t go on the record as saying that the new Taurus will be unveiled in Motor City, he did say the automaker [...]
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UAW considers dropping “job bank” for idled workers
As you read this, there are about 3,000 unionized workers — down from about 15,000 two years ago — employed by the Detroit 3 getting paid, despite the fact that they aren’t working. While it’s nice for America’s automakers to have access to a talent-pool of available workers, it’s also a major financial drain on [...]
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Porsche head predicts a hedge fund will swallow GM or Ford
Little guy Porsche is taking huge swings, and not just at the giant that is Volkswagen. Porsche head Wendelin Wiedeking had fierce Teutonic words for General Motors and Ford, and banks. His Rindfleisch – beef, that is – with U.S. automakers is that, through unsound practices, they have thrown absolutely everything into turmoil. In the [...]
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UAW wants executive pay to be limited
The president of the United Auto Workers union, Ron Gettelfinger, said in a recent CNN interview that U.S. automakers need to tell Congress they will limit corporate pay, bonuses and severance packages in return for more government loans. Gettelfinger also said that the Detroit Three only need the loans to hold them over during these [...]
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eBay Find of the Day: Saleen Windstar (Seriously!)
Outrageous minivans are oddities of the train wreck variety. You don’t want to, but you just gotta look. And we’re suckers for them. Not that long ago we had the ridiculously fast, jet-powered Dodge Caravan, and then there was the show but stock slow Mugen Honda Odyssey.
But what do you think of a Saleen-built Ford [...]
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