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<title><![CDATA[CFO says GM streamlining is 'on its way']]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- As a banking adviser to General Motors when he was at Morgan Stanley, Dan Ammann got an upfront view of GM's spiral into bankruptcy in 2009 and subsequent restructuring. Now, more than two years into his job as CFO, Ammann acknowledges that he had only a faint idea at the time of how ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Shaq: No grease needed to slide into his LaCrosse]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can Shaquille O'Neal really fit into a Buick LaCrosse? During a recent episode of the "Inside the NBA" postgame show on the TNT network, analyst Charles Barkley kidded the 7-foot-1-inch Shaq about his LaCrosse ads by saying O'Neal had to be rubbed down with Gold Bond Lotion to slide in. Gold Bond ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM seeks clean launch, regular updates for pickups]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mark Reuss, president of General Motors North America, says GM is staying vigilant on the June launch of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-sized pickups, its most important rollout since the company's 2009 bankruptcy. He says GM is closely monitoring suppliers to avoid bottlenecks that ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Old-school Rizza roars into the digital age]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In an age when auto dealers are plunging into digital tools for marketing, store management and customer retention, Chicago's Rizza Cars has become a star practitioner. The six-store retailer with Ford, Lincoln, Acura, Buick, Cadillac, GMC, Kia and Porsche brands is a case study of a traditional ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Acura seeks image boost by reviving NSX in Ohio]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MARYSVILLE, Ohio -- Honda officials hope the revived Acura NSX, an advanced hybrid sports car scheduled to arrive in 2015, will strengthen Acura's luxury footing. "We have a very clear understanding of the high customer expectations luxury buyers around the world have for a supercar, and our ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chafing against engine friction]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Friction is enemy No. 1 for powertrain engineers striving to meet rising fuel-economy standards. "As engines get smaller, eliminating friction becomes even more important," says Dave Lancaster, a General Motors technical fellow who works at the automaker's powertrain engineering operations in ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM, Chrysler are still working on supplier relations]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are General Motors and Chrysler Group playing hardball with suppliers again? The latest automaker-supplier relations study by the consultant firm Planning Perspectives Inc. was troubling. The big jump in their scores in last year's study appeared to show that GM and Chrysler had learned a hard ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sources: Chrysler plans high-hp Hellcat V-8]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Chrysler Group is developing a supercharged Hemi V-8 with power approaching the 640 hp of the SRT Viper's V-10. The 6.2-liter engine, code-named Hellcat, is expected to debut on the next-generation Dodge Challenger and perhaps other vehicles, according to sources within Chrysler. The ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Women do well as service advisers]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The writer, who now works for Maritz, has also worked for Ford and Kia. To the Editor: I wholeheartedly agree with the assessment of Roger Pipher, fixed operations director of Coleman Buick-GMC-Cadillac in Lawrenceville, N.J., about women as service advisers ("Connecting with service customers," ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Infiniti: Raise quality, sales will follow]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[KAMINOKAWA, Japan -- The boss says quality is key to Infiniti's future. After years with Infiniti at the back of the premium pack, Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Infiniti's parent, Nissan Motor Co., has ordered his team to nail quality once and for all as part of a push to catapult Infiniti into the top ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It's official: Tundra is a bit player in pickups]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- Gone are the days when Toyota expected to challenge Detroit's dominance in full-sized pickups. "We're never going to challenge the Big 3 in terms of volumes," Jim Lentz, CEO of Toyota's North American region, said in an interview. Now, he says Toyota will combine compact and ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM designer knows crucial launches produce a love-hate response]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SAN ANTONIO -- Chevrolet designer Tom Peters describes the blocky, chiseled front end of the 2014 Silverado pickup as a "fist in the wind." The metaphor also could describe the resolve Peters needs to weather his critics as the lead designer for two of the most closely scrutinized vehicles on the ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Akerson's global goal: Rebuild GM into an IT powerhouse]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- General Motors is hiring thousands of workers and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild the in-house information technology capability it began dismantling nearly two decades ago. In recent years, the company had farmed out as much as 90 percent of its IT work, more than ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Again, Tokyo show a no-go for Detroit 3]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Detroit 3 will sit out the Tokyo Motor Show, no-shows for the third straight time. Yoshiyasu Nao, vice chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, which organizes the show, said his group petitioned the Detroit automakers to participate but was turned down. "We asked them to ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chevy will get a version of small Nissan cargo van]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE -- General Motors will rebadge a vehicle already on sale at Nissan dealerships so Chevrolet dealers can offer a small cargo van. GM said last week that it will sell a restyled version of Nissan's four-cylinder NV200 commercial van as the 2015 Chevrolet City Express in the fall of 2014. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM's Cruze diesel ghostbuster]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[PONTIAC, Mich. -- No one on Mike Siegrist's engineering team talks about the failed Oldsmobile diesel V-8 from the 1980s. But it's there, a 745-pound cast-iron ghost. Siegrist, a 35-year General Motors veteran who got his start at Oldsmobile -- and briefly worked on that troubled engine -- leads ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Industry: EU trade deal would lift exports]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. auto exports to Europe could quadruple within 15 years if regulators get rid of tariffs and adopt standard vehicle-safety rules, automaker associations say. That point, which European automakers and the Detroit 3 are making to officials with trans-Atlantic trade talks approaching, suggests ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Behind the scenes, Straubel keeps Tesla running at pivotal time]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk was fresh off the sale of PayPal and starting another business, commercial rocket service Space Exploration Technologies Corp., when he met kindred spirit JB Straubel. Their shared belief that consumer electronics advances could be applied to more earthly modes ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[North America car and truck production - 05/20/13]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 17:24:30 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In the Land of Many Buicks, one in particular stood out]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 15:59:44 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI -- If you were an alien from another world and your spaceship landed in Shanghai, you would immediately conclude that Buick is a planetary titan among automotive brands. Buick is the third-leading brand in China behind Volkswagen and Hyundai through March with 5.3 percent of the market, ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UAW study chides Nissan for tax breaks at Miss. plant]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 15:37:52 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE -- A research study commissioned by UAW labor organizers claims that Nissan Motor Co. could receive four times the previously reported level of state and local incentives and tax breaks to operate its assembly plant in Canton, Miss. According to the study by the Washington-based Good Jobs ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM shares return to $33 IPO price on optimism for truck sales]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 10:19:21 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- Shares in General Motors topped its $33 initial public offering price for the first time in more than two years as the automaker prepares to introduce redesigned full-sized pickups. GM shares closed up $1.03, or 3.2 percent, at $33.42 in New York Stock Exchange trading today ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Akerson's GM Pickup Pitch (5/17/13)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 08:30:14 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CEO says tech-filled truck not built for 'urban cowboy'; Europe snaps losing streak; Fiat downplays reports about HQ move.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cadillac to offer new twin-turbo V-6 on XTS for 2014]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 08:11:50 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly characterized the horsepower rating in the 2014 Cadillac XTS' twin-turbo V-6 engine. DETROIT -- Cadillac is adding a new 410-hp, twin-turbo 3.6-liter V-6 engine as an option on the XTS sedan for 2014. General Motors unveiled the engine ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[European car sales post 1st gain in 19 months]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 05:19:21 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MILAN, Italy (Bloomberg) -- European car sales rose for the first time in 19 months as a gain in consumer sentiment in countries using the euro led to rebounds in Germany and Spain. Registrations in April increased 2 percent to 1.08 million vehicles from 1.06 million cars a year earlier, the ...]]></description>
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