GM to emphasize fuel economy, slash executive ranks as it prepares to exit Chapter 11DETROIT — General Motors could literally turn green as it readies itself for major management and cultural changes that will coincide with its escape from bankruptcy protection. GM plant decision brings elation to Michigan, dejection to Wisconsin, uncertainty to TennesseeSPRING HILL, Tenn. — Workers at General Motors’ soon-to-be-idled assembly plant in Tennessee held out hope for a reprieve, but now it’s back to the waiting game. Michigan finally gets good news with GM deciding to build small car at Oakland County plantORION TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan has snatched back a few of its fast-disappearing auto jobs, winning a high-stakes competition with two other states to build General Motors Corp.’s next-generation subcompact car. AP source: GM to build new subcompact at Orion Township, Mich., factory, bypassing Tenn., Wis.DETROIT — Michigan has won the high-stakes competition with two other states to build General Motors Corp.’s next-generation subcompact car, a person briefed on the decision said Thursday. US Rep. says General Motors could pick small-car factory site as early as this weekDETROIT — A Michigan congressman says General Motors Corp. could decide as early as this week where it will build a new line of small cars. Detroit automakers still behind foreign competitors for quality but gaining groundNEW YORK — There’s a message for Detroit’s automakers in the new J.D. Power and Associates rankings: Good work. Now go back and do it again. General Motors operations in India still on trackGURGAON - General Motors (GM) India would continue all its normal operations in the country, as it was not included in the court reinvention process of GM’s United State’s operations. Electric vehicles not cool enough for GenYNEW DELHI - Sanjiv Sharma, a city-based hospitality consultant, plans to buy a car. His first. And like most of his peers he is certainly concerned about the rising cost of fuel. Yet he has ruled out electric vehicles: He doesn’t find them cool enough. |