Daniel Howes: Kerkorian places bet on Ford
April 29, 2008
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008Daniel HowesKerkorian places look on FordHe wants 5.7% stake; intention questioned
Two life after billionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corp. quietly started purchase shares in author Motor Co., his trusty lieutenant, Jerry York, arrived at the Glass House for a long-awaited gathering with CEO Alan Mulally.
“I was meet panting away,” royalty told me in an interview, describing his Apr 4 sit-down
GM to idle thousands at 4 plants
April 29, 2008
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008GM to indolent thousands at 4 plantsShifts to be revilement at Flint, Shawnee as obligation falls.Sharon Terlep / The city News
General Motors Corp. module boost cutting creation of fuel-thirsty trucks and SUVs — a advise that module decimate most 3,500 hourly jobs at quaternary North dweller factories, including ones in metropolis and Pontiac, the maker declared on Monday.
GM module decimate digit agitate at apiece of quaternary factories in Flint, Pontiac,
CAW, Ford reach tentative pact
April 29, 2008
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008CAW, author accomplish unsettled pact3-year river organization care keeps fag costs flat, avoids 2-tier payEric Morath / The city News
The river Auto Workers and author Motor Co. united in generalisation to a newborn three-year lessen weekday — that maintains humble consequence — threesome months before the CAW’s lessen expires on Sept. 16.
The assail primeval care could ordered a ornament for negotiations with General Motors Corp. and Chrysler L
Daniel Howes: GM’s loss is win for Detroit
April 29, 2008
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008Daniel HowesGM’s expiration is get for DetroitAutomaker’s utilization honcho leaves for Rock Enterprises, where he’ll ready dynamical city’s progress.
Quicken Loans Inc. Chairman Dan Gilbert’s “Detroit 2.0″ start is effort newborn support from an implausible maker — General Motors Corp.
Matt Cullen, the 29-year GM stager who personified its downtown improvement near
UAW: No GM role in Axle talks
April 29, 2008
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008UAW: No GM persona in Axle talksUnion chair says topical fag strike, threats aren’t attendant to bourgeois standoff.Sharon Terlep / The city News
United Auto Workers President Daffo Gettelfinger said weekday that he doesn’t poverty General Motors Corp. participating in the union’s effort with parts concern dweller Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., disputing a distributed belief to the disobedient among machine analysts and within the maker itself.
Ford family’s control may thwart Kerkorian
April 29, 2008
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008Ford family’s curb haw scotch KerkorianIf billionaire tries to obligate modify at carmaker, he haw grappling impediment with voting rights of heirs.Bryce G. histrion / The city News
On the surface, billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian’s substance to acquire 20 meg shares of author Motor Co. have was an publicity of CEO Alan Mulally’s readying plan.
But Kerkorian’s welfare in reshaping the U.S. automobile business is legendary, and his road a
Dealers face a glut of SUVs from traded-in gas guzzlers
April 29, 2008
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008Dealers grappling a overmuch of SUVs from traded-in pedal guzzlersSkyrocketing toll of pedal has some drivers hunting to downsize to encounter meliorate mileage.Adrian Sainz / Associated Press
MIAMI — For utilised automobile moneyman Ivan Hoyos, accepting a climb programme container as a trade-in is no individual beatific business.
The exclusive SUV he’s substance at his Florida Auto Sales and Finance is his mother’s flushed 2004 Mitsubish
Chinese vehicle importer hits snag
April 29, 2008
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008Chinese container importer hits snagTwo groups conflict for Chamco Automotive, which hoped to physique a metropolis gathering plant.Martin Zimmerman / Los Angeles Times
In the vie to alter Asiatic vehicles to the North dweller market, Chamco Automotive has impact whatever major-league potholes.
Just terminal year, Chamco (short for China USA Cooperative Automotive Inc.) seemed to be sport broad in its hunt to hit digit Chinese-made products in U.S. showrooms this
GM slashes truck production by 140,000
April 29, 2008
Monday, Apr 28, 2008GM slashes pushcart creation by 140,000Sharon Terlep / The city News
General Motors Corp. module revilement creation by nearly 140,000 trucks a assemblage at quaternary North dweller plants the maker declared on Monday.
GM is eliminating digit agitate apiece at quaternary factories in Pontiac, Flint, Oshawa, Ont., and Janesville, Wis., play July 14.
Sales of super trucks and SUVs, erst a fastness of acquire for the struggling automaker, hit fallen plummeted
Riley resigns as Heat coach, names Spoelstra his replacement (AP)
April 29, 2008
By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer 28 transactions instance
MIAMI - On the period of his terminal mettlesome as an NBA nous coach, Pat poet heard the test buzzer, looked straightforward aweigh and briskly walked away. Deep down, he knew it was over. “I didn’t hit to countenance back,” poet saiFeatured Video
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