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Chevy will get a version of small Nissan cargo van
… for the United States and Canada, said a Nissan spokesman. In 2006, GM shareholder Kirk Kerkorian pushed then-CEO Rick Wagoner to forge an alliance with Renault-Nissan as a way to stem GM's losses. After a summerlong study, GM rejected the …
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GM to rebadge Nissan's small commercial vans for Chevy
… States and Canada, said Travis Parman, a Nissan spokesman. In 2006, GM shareholder Kirk Kerkorian pushed then-CEO Rick Wagoner to forge an alliance with Renault-Nissan as a way to stem the U.S. company's losses. After a summer-long study …
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As retirement approaches, Publisher Peter Brown honors some of the best, and worst, automotive adventurers
… still lacks traction. Worst dealmaker Jack Smith and Rick Wagoner at GM tried to go big and go global by buying all or ..... Juergen Hubbert, Jonathan Browning, Tom Pappert, Rick Wagoner , Jim Lentz, Ross Roberts, Tom Mignanelli, John Mendel …
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Whitacre-as-savior concept gets the Lutz lash
… entirely to two things: its debt-cleansing trip through Bankruptcy Court and "winning products" developed while he, Rick Wagoner and Fritz Henderson were in charge. But Whitacre doesn't seem to be on board with the idea that GM's product pipeline …
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Seattle startup tied to Wagoner delivers cars for test drives
… shoppers to test drive vehicles without going to a dealership. Tred, a Seattle startup with ties to former GM CEO Rick Wagoner , cuts dealership trips by delivering new vehicles for consumers to test drive and possibly purchase. Tred drivers …
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Obama leverages auto bailout for crucial Midwest wins
… long enough for Obama, a Democrat, to complete the $85 billion rescue plan that included the 2009 firing of GM CEO Rick Wagoner and the managed bankruptcy of both carmakers. At the time, 54 percent of Americans said the bailout was bad for the …
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Detroit 3 profits underscore auto industry gains under Obama
… enough for Obama, a Democrat, to go on to craft the $80 billion rescue plan that included the 2009 firing of GM CEO Rick Wagoner and the managed bankruptcy of both carmakers. At the time, 54 percent of Americans said the bailout was bad for the …
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GM seen planning global reorganization to tackle 'fiefdoms'
… to help create more popular cars. Then in 2005, in the last major reorganization before the bankruptcy, then-CEO Rick Wagoner reassigned 11 executives to create new global product planning, design and engineering positions to foster more sharing …
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Some days, Akerson would rather bowl
… alley in Flint, Mich., he supplied future generations of GM bosses with a laugh line they could always turn to. Rick Wagoner joked at the 2002 Automotive News World Congress that Durant's bowling alley stint was "a prospect that has haunted …
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Lutz: GM played hardball with suppliers
… mixed success. During an automotive conference last week in suburban Detroit, Lutz said he tried to coax former GM CEO Rick Wagoner and purchasing chief Bo Andersson to foster long-term relationships with suppliers. Lutz, who left GM in 2010 …
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Lingering lessons from a momentous 20th anniversary at GM
… management's "pet rocks." It should happen more often. What would have happened if GM's board, back in the Rick Wagoner era, had installed a new management team when the automaker's losses hit $35 billion, instead of waiting until …
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Ferrari N.A. CEO Mattiacci wins Automotive Executive of the Year Award
… Past recipients include Alan Mulally, Jim O'Sullivan, Jim Press, Bill Ford Jr., Dieter Zetsche, Henry Ford II, Rick Wagoner , Bob Lutz and Lee Iacocca, among others. The nominating committee includes auto industry media members, analysts …
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GM rediscovers the value of planned obsolescence
… restyled hoods and fenders, along with grilles, taillights, front and rear fascias, plus interior trim. "I think Rick [ Wagoner ] never thought there was a lot of value in midcycle enhancements, and so we never did them," Lyon said. Wagoner …
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For execs, many ways to walk the auto show
… style was different from the way other GM honchos have toured auto shows. For example, you used to see former CEO Rick Wagoner touring the show with a product-savvy GM PR guy who was coaching his boss on the finer points of automotive design …
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Rick Wagoner Speaks (12/12/11)
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GM's climb back to global No. 1 reflects tectonic industry shift
… Autodata. Some of the credit for GM's recovery at home goes to the management team led by former Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner , who was fired by the Treasury Department in 2009, said Jeremy Anwyl, CEO of Edmunds.com, a consumer-research …
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From American icon to global juggernaut
… s General Motors executives are responding to a new, broader world. (A historical footnote: It was former CEO Rick Wagoner who overruled many of his lieutenants and decreed, correctly, that Chevrolet would be GM's global mass-market …
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Book: Desperate GM execs made a run at Ford's piggy bank
… declared bankruptcy, at which former General Motors' CEO Rick Wagoner proposed to merge with Ford. According to Once Upon ..... Bill Ford in July 2008 and said: "Hi Bill, it's Rick Wagoner . You know, I think it's really time we put our companies …
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GM, Ford discussed secret merger in 2008, report says
DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. CEO Rick Wagoner secretly proposed a merger with Ford Motor Co. in 2008, a year before GM's bankruptcy filing, the New York Times reported …
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Former Wall Streeter Steve Girsky brings an outsider's perspective to his search for the 'next big idea'
… under three GM CEOs -- not an easy thing to do, as many executives who have left GM in the past two years can attest. Rick Wagoner first brought analyst Girsky inside in 2005 for a 10-month close-up view of GM's deteriorating financial position …
