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<title><![CDATA[Coming soon: The spittoon that helped make GM]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[General Motors' roots can be traced to Durant-Dort Carriage Co., a long-shuttered 133-year-old factory in Flint, Mich., and the office building across the street. They were headquarters for GM founder Billy Durant's efforts to expand from the horse-drawn carriage business to automobile production. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM to buy historic Durant-Dort buildings in Flint, Mich.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 02 May 2013 15:35:41 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[General Motors has agreed to buy the original Durant-Dort Carriage Co. factory in Flint, Mich., a site GM North America President Mark Reuss calls "the birthplace of GM." GM plans to use the 133-year-old, 25,000-square-foot building as a showcase for its corporate history, Reuss told Automotive ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Under Reuss, racing spurs urgency in GM product development]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:01:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Bloomberg) -- When the Daytona 500 starts this weekend with Danica Patrick in the pole position driving her Chevrolet SS, General Motors will be seeking something more than a winner's trophy: adding a greater sense of urgency to GM product development. Mark Reuss, GM's North ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[After 93 years, a GM-PSA merger?]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[General Motors and PSA Peugeot Citroen are exploring a merger of Opel/Vauxhall and PSA's automotive operations, according to press reports. Thus GM may finally get a stake in a French automaker -- a mere 93 years after it first considered doing so. In 1919, GM founder Billy Durant thought of ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DuPont sells half its automotive business]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DuPont is selling roughly half of its automotive business. The company is selling its auto paint business, DuPont Performance Coatings, to Carlyle Group, a private equity firm in Washington, for $4.9 billion in cash. It will keep its other automotive operations. The coatings unit employs 11,000 at ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Some days, Akerson would rather bowl]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When General Motors founder Billy Durant was found, late in life, to be running a bowling 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 ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Smale did a DuPont at GM -- with different results]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Smale will be remembered for reprising Pierre DuPont's role at General Motors . But, as with many movies, the sequel wasn't as successful as the original. Smale, who became chairman of GM in 1992 after a historic management shakeup sparked by a period of financial turmoil at the automaker, ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[COMMENTARY: Maybe it's time for a real election]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.autonews.com/article/20111121/OEM02/311219985/1126]]></link>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[General Motors CEO Dan Akerson is 63 and says he's still a few years away from retiring. But already there is speculation about who might replace him. Before GM gets around to selecting another chairman and CEO, GM should have a new board, elected by all the shareholders, not just the ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Small-block V-8 had huge impact]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Considering how late it was to the party, the radical little engine that powered the mid-20th century Chevrolet out of a rut and into the fast lane had to be good. But nobody thought it would be that good. Since 1929, Chevy had been a six-cylinder car company and darn proud of it. As the 1950s ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Where did the Chevrolet bow tie come from? Durant's newspaper, perhaps]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Billy Durant, founder of Chevrolet, was not only a superb salesman and promoter. He also apparently loved to develop names and logos for his products. For years, the story of the Chevrolet bow tie emblem was that Durant had seen the design on wallpaper in Paris. But it wasn't true. For one thing, ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chevrolet's original Classic Six was not the car Durant expected]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It didn't take Billy Durant long to launch his plan to return to power at General Motors. He quickly established his own -- if more modest -- automotive empire, launching Republic, Mason and Little. But the keystone in his comeback would be Chevrolet, a name well known because of the success of ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Audacious Durant, using Chevrolet, reacquires GM]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 1915, Billy Durant, the founder of General Motors, was in exile from the company. Bankers, unhappy with his free-spending ways, had ousted him five years earlier. But revenge was not foremost in his mind as he plotted his return. Rather, he was drawn by the thrill of the chase. For Durant, who ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Louis Chevrolet: His gift was cars, not corporations]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's sad but true: For much of the last 100 years, cantankerous Louis Chevrolet was a nonperson to the car brand that bears his name. From the late teens through the 1980s, the company had little to do with the man. And vice versa. Modern-day stewards have been easing Louis' spirit back into ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Corvette: A pop culture classic]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Harley Earl was too tall to sit in one. At 6 foot 3, he towered over the low curved windshield, which might explain why you almost never see the father of the Corvette pictured with his offspring. Earl's creation is the most successful concept car in history and the most popular sports car in ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Charming visionary builds GM empire, then loses it]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today's auto industry would be no place for Billy Durant. He was a gambler, charmer, salesman and visionary. With supernatural energy, he founded and built General Motors and Chevrolet. He failed to keep the financial rewards of his accomplishments. That was left to disciplined managers, such as ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[100 YEARS: From 'See the USA in your Chevrolet' to 'Like a Rock,' Chevy ads run deep]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1911: General Motors founder Billy Durant, right, ousted from GM in 1910, teamed up with Louis Chevrolet, a Swiss-American race car driver and engineer, to start Chevrolet Motor Car Co. on Nov. 3, 1911. 1911: Frank Campbell (on right in photo above) and Henry Ewald (left) opened Detroit ad agency ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wheeler-dealer clashes with headstrong Swiss racer]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Louis Chevrolet and Billy Durant were an odd couple. In 1911, Chevrolet, 32, was a headstrong 6-foot-1, 215-pound bear of a man. Just 12 years removed from his Swiss homeland, he already was a famous, if not wealthy, auto racer. Durant, 49, was a suave charmer with a Midas touch and money to burn. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Racing is in Chevrolet's DNA]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The curtain almost closed on Chevrolet motorsports in 2009, during General Motors' brush with bankruptcy. It was not the first near-death experience for Chevy racing. A GM edict forced Ed Cole's operation underground in 1957. Zora Arkus-Duntov's 1963 Grand Sport program went dark when the edict was ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[All-American brand has made its mark on the global stage]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Though Chevrolet has been quintessentially American, the brand has a long and storied history outside its native country. As General Motors' bread-and-butter brand, Chevrolet carried the flag for the corporation in locales both near and far, starting with Canada. In doing so, Chevy became one of ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Since its racing days, Chevrolet knew that sports could sell cars]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Chevrolet was marketing itself through sports even before it officially became a brand. Imagine the glee of Billy Durant, General Motors' ousted creator. When he co-founded Chevrolet Motor Car Co. with Louis Chevrolet, at no extra cost, Durant, a consummate deal maker, got not only Louis' name but ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For the first dealers, Chevy started as a newfangled sideline]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Chevrolet was just the name of a race car driver when James Luck and his brother started a horse-and-buggy and livery-stable business in Ashland, Va., around 1907. But less than 10 years later, Luck realized that this newfangled horseless carriage was changing the way people got around -- and was ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 490 made Chevy a bargain player]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nameplates such as Corvette, Bel Air, Camaro and Silverado have defined Chevrolet through the decades. But it was a basic car with a dull black finish, single door and low introductory price that helped establish Chevrolet in its early days. The debut of the Chevrolet 490 in 1915 cemented the brand ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[$1.65B Profit for Ford (10/26/11)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:36:17 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[$1.65B profit for Ford; Nissan production boom; Chevy 100: The founder]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Special issue to mark a century of Chevrolet]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On Oct. 31, Automotive News will publish a special issue for Chevrolet's 100th anniversary. Among the 100 stories, we'll tell the tale of the co-founders -- Billy Durant, the gambler, salesman and promoter; and Louis Chevrolet, the mechanically gifted race car driver. We'll select 10 Chevrolet ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For a while, Chevrolet had controlling stake in GM]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On Oct. 31, Automotive News will publish a special issue for Chevrolet's 100th anniversary. Here's a sample of the 100 stories we will tell. Strange as it sounds, Chevrolet once held a controlling stake in General Motors. Chevrolet, like GM, was the creation of Billy Durant, the stock-market ...]]></description>
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