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2 hrs ago | SAE International

SAE Foundation to Honor STEM Education Supporter Mary Barra with the...

SAE Foundation announced today that it will honor Mary T. Barra with its Industry Leadership Award at the 2013 SAE Foundation Celebration Dinner.

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Related Topix: Automakers, General Motors, Manufacturing, Delphi, Kettering University

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

GM Is Making Production Numbers Secret

This month, General Motors informed several automotive research firms that it would no longer publicly disclose its monthly production numbers, concerning industry analysts and economists who gauge the company's health off those figures and creating problems for suppliers that rely on the data for their production plans.

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Related Topix: Automakers, General Motors

BBC News

Glimmers of hope in Detroit

Despite decades of decline and mismanagement, there are signs of life in Detroit as private sector companies try to rebuild the city.

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Related Topix: Automakers, General Motors

India Talkies

General Motors recalls 231,000 SUVs over fire risk - Indiatalkies.com

Beijing, June 19: US General Motors Co. is set to recall about 231,000 older SUVs over fire risks and has urged owners to park them outside garages until they are repaired, a media report said.

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Related Topix: General Motors, Automakers

Star Tribune

Fallon loses Cadillac account

The Minneapolis ad agency and the iconic American luxury vehicle maker parted ways earlier this month after a nearly three-year relationship when Cadillac decided to go in a different marketing direction.

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Related Topix: Marketing, General Motors, Automakers

Automotive News

Pickup.com shootout is a salvo in ongoing pickup battle

The semiregular shootout is a competition between the latest half-ton pickups from Ford, General Motors, Chrysler Group, Toyota and Nissan.

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Related Topix: Ford F-150, Ford, Truck, Automakers, General Motors, Toyota Tundra, Toyota, Toyota Sr5, Nissan Titan, Nissan

MLive.com

University of Michigan unveils 'Generation' solar car in Detroit

University of Michigan's Solar Car Team unveiled the 2013 solar car, named Generation, in the Wintergarden of the General Motors Global Headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit Tuesday, June 18. The U-M College of Engineering students will race their solar car in the 2013 World Solar Challenge aA A' a week-long, 1,800-mile trek across the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Michigan, Michigan Government, Automakers, General Motors

The Detroit News

Car Show event honors vision of Wayne Cherry

Never one to mince words, retired General Motors chairman Bob Lutz blasted GM bureaucrats for constantly interfering in the creative process of the auto company's talented designers.

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Related Topix: Pontiac, Automakers, General Motors, Sterling Heights, MI, Pontiac Solstice

Bloomberg

EU Car Sales Drop to 20-Year Low as Joblessness Hurts GM Demand

European Union car sales in May fell to a 20-year low as rising joblessness caused by a recession in the euro region contributed to falling demand at PSA Peugeot Citroen , Renault SA and General Motors Co.

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Related Topix: Auto Dealers, Automakers, General Motors, Italy, World News,

Bloomberg

GM Vows to Show China That Cadillac of Autos Isn't Audi

As Vincent Qiu weighed his options for buying a new sport-utility vehicle in Beijing, he was drawn to the Cadillac SRX.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Cadillac XTS, Cadillac, Sedan, Cadillac SRX, SUV, Cadillac ATS, Hybrid, Audi Q5, Audi, Automakers

Mon Jun 17, 2013

I-Newswire.com

Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment System Homeowners Best Defense for...

A home reverse osmosis water purification system is Southeastern Michigan's homeowners' best defense against dangerous impurities that a watchdog organization says may be present in the area's water supply.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Automakers, General Motors

Daily Mail

Jimmy Hoffa: FBI beings digging up Michigan field in search for union leader who disappeared in 1975

FBI agents have today begun digging up a field in Oakland Township, Michigan, after an aging mob leader claimed that Jimmy Hoffa was buried there.

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Related Topix: US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Automakers, General Motors, Mafia, Federal Prisons, Prison

Insider Monkey

Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA), General Motors Company (GM): The Electric Vehicle Market Is Still Tepid

The release of Nissan Motor's Leaf EV line of cars has generated strong optimism for those owning the company's stock.

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Related Topix: Tesla Motors, Manufacturing, Automakers, Startups, Saab AB, Aerospace-Defense

Fortune

General Motors wants to be the '$150 billion startup'

General Motors' hiring of Randy Mott in February 2012 as the automaker's chief information officer had a lot to do, not surprisingly, with the breakdown of a crucial GM computer the year before.

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Related Topix: Automakers, General Motors, CIO News, Computers, Hewlett Packard, HP

Insider Monkey

General Motors Company (GM): Cadillac's 2013 ATS Has Changed the Game

Ford Motor Company has created one of the most impressive turnarounds in business history and leads General Motors Company in many ways.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Aerospace-Defense, Saab AB

Detroit News

GM names new vice president of North America manufacturing

General Motors Co. said Monday it has named 33-year company veteran Gerald Johnson as its vice president of North America manufacturing, effective July 1. Johnson will replace Diana Tremblay, who the Detroit automaker last week named vice president of the company's new Global Business Services unit.

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Related Topix: General Motors, Automakers

MilitaryCity.com

WWII riveters return one last time to bomber plant

Wilma Rees, 90, of Arizona and her twin sister, Amelia Kizer, 90, of Nebraska, members of the American Rosie the Riveter Association , worked on B-17 bombers at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle during World War II.

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Related Topix: Automakers, General Motors, Belleville, MI, Ypsilanti, MI

BenzConnection

Buick And Opel Link To Become Stronger, Says GM Ceo

Buick currently sells three vehicles that were originally conceived as Opels, and by the looks of things there's set to be more.

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Related Topix: Coupe, Buick, Hybrid, Sedan, Buick Regal, Automakers

Forbes.com

Detroit's New City Czar Is Acting Like The Car Czar

Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's 134-page assessment of Detroit's dire situation is patently bleak.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Automakers, General Motors, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Mad Men, Business News

Automotive News

GM poised to leap out of 'lease hole'

General Motors has a secret weapon in its bid to gain U.S. market share this year.

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Related Topix: General Motors, Automakers, Kenmore, NY

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