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GM: Labor costs must be cut to save Australia plants
… s Holden unit is an engineering center for rear-wheel drive cars.andnbsp; The automaker has imported cars such as the Pontiac G6, G8 and GTO from Australia for sale in the United States in recent years. It plans to import the Chevy SS rear-wheel …
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Lutz on Wagoner: Smart, didn't make tough calls
… desirability of the latter, yet never imposed his will against resistance, including my own. At some point, if convinced that Pontiac , Saturn, Hummer, and Saab were all "surplus to requirements," a tougher, less caring CEO would have said, "Look …
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GM's Barra cuts costs, emerges as CEO contender
… Motors Institute (since renamed Kettering University) in Flint, Mich., and landed her first job as a plant engineer at Pontiac Motor Division, where her father, a die maker, worked for 39 years. There were few women and even fewer 18-year-olds …
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Certified used-vehicle sales, May and YTD
… 105,620 * 85,133 32% 11.8% 24% 12.3% GMC * 4,323 * 3,663 * 20,581 * 16,648 18% 2.3% 24% 2.4% Pontiac * 420 * 953 * 2,288 * 5,379 -56% 0.2% -57% 0.3% Saturn * 206 * 526 * 1,158 * 2,767 -61% 0.1% -58 …
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$4,000 Spiff on Chevy Volt (6/11/13)
… to stall. US auto safety regulators have stepped up their investigation into a break what problems. In the 2005. To 2008 Pontiac G six. That brings the discontinued a step closer to a recall. And regulators are investigating claims that the air bags …
their investigation into a break what problems. In the 2005. To 2008 Pontiac G six. That brings the discontinued -- a step closer to a recall. And regulators are investigating claims that the air bags -
Honda minivans under investigation after complaints of airbag flaw
… vehicles in January for similar problems. They were the 2003-04 Toyota Corolla and Toyota Matrix, as well as the Pontiac Vibe , built with Toyota at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. joint-venture plant in Fremont, Calif. Those recalls …
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Pontiac G6 brake light inquiry elevated by NHTSA
… safety regulators have stepped up their investigation into the Pontiac G6, bringing the discontinued sedan a step closer to a recall ..... received one report of a crash. GM sold more than 150,000 Pontiac G6 sedans in both 2006 and 2007 before sales dropped to about …
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Lutz on Wagoner: Smart, didn't make tough calls
… desirability of the latter, yet never imposed his will against resistance, including my own. At some point, if convinced that Pontiac , Saturn, Hummer, and Saab were all "surplus to requirements," a tougher, less caring CEO would have said, "Look …
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Not so much as a fare-thee-well
… at GM. The sad part is that nothing was expected. MARSHALL FRIEDMAN Newport, N.H. The writer is retired. He owned Dartmouth Motor Sales, which at one time sold Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac , Oldsmobile and GMC vehicles in Newport.
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Chrysler refusal on Jeeps sets challenge of U.S. recall power
… a recall related to brakes that could intermittently lock on its so-called X-Car, sold under Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Buick model names. GM also avoided a recall in the 1990s of full-size pickups that had fuel tanks positioned in a way …
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Lutz: GM nice-guy Wagoner fell victim to bad timing, bad luck
… of Wagoner is that he made GM too focused on "time to market" and other misguided metrics, resulting in flops such as the Pontiac Aztek, "the rapidly developed solution to a question nobody had asked." He says Wagoner was too hesitant to make tough …
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GM designer knows crucial launches produce a love-hate response
… range of projects with varied levels of success, including the acclaimed Cadillac Sixteen concept and the universally panned Pontiac Aztek, which landed atop more than a few lists of the ugliest vehicles ever. Peters said the Aztek design got away from him …
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GM's Cruze diesel ghostbuster
PONTIAC , Mich. -- No one on Mike Siegrist's engineering team talks about the failed Oldsmobile diesel V-8 from the 1980s. But it …
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In the Land of Many Buicks, one in particular stood out
… China's Empress Dowager hadn't been chauffeured around in a Buick, the brand would probably be resting comfortably with Pontiac , Oldsmobile and Saturn in the GM graveyard. 'Royalty' "The Buick chassis with various coachworks were utilized by royalty …
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Certified used-vehicle sales, April and YTD
… 503 * 83,582 * 68,392 43% 12.6% 22% 12.4% GMC * 4,358 * 3,083 * 16,258 * 12,985 41% 2.5% 25% 2.4% Pontiac * 459 * 938 * 1,868 * 4,426 -51% 0.3% -58% 0.3% Saturn * 204 * 467 * 952 * 2,241 -56% 0.1% -57% 0 …
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GM's FandI products will carry vehicle brand names
… the new GM products will be available for used GM cars as well as new ones. For non-GM used vehicles and for vehicles from Pontiac , Saturn and Hummer, GM offers a protection plan under the MyAuto brand. Jim Kornas, director of extended protection plans …
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GM's FandI products will carry vehicle's brand
… too, using the same internal system for paperwork and for reporting claims. For non-GM used vehicles and for models from Pontiac , Saturn and Hummer, GM offers a protection plan under the MyAuto brand. Jim Kornas, director of extended protection plans …
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Va. group cultivates home-grown talent
… with people who, like him, started on the bottom rungs of the ladder. He had worked at the first Brown's dealership, a Pontiac store in Arlington, Va., during high school and college. His father had worked at that story's body shop. "When we …
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Recall of airbags shows risk of global supply chains
… A. Inc. in California. General Motors said Takata is a supplier, but that the problem affected only about 55,000 2003 Pontiac Vibes assembled at the Fremont, California, plant GM previously ran in a joint venture with Toyota. Those vehicles were …
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Ex-GM dealer fights fraud conviction
… and 135-month prison sentence for engineering a floorplanning scam. John Giovanetti, a former owner of Big Oaks Buick- Pontiac -GMC in Bartow, Fla., is challenging U.S. District Judge James Whittemore's ruling that he failed to show that his …
