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Rick Wagoner Unwraps First Shots Of Chevy Cruze, Cadillac SRX
In the now-infamous press conference from General Motors this morning, Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner not only spelled out GM's strategy to save itself from impending doom, but also revealed pretty much every upcoming GM vehicle that hadn't already been shown to the public. This includes the first photos of the 2010 Chevy Cruze, 2010 Cadillac SRX, 2010 Saab 9-4X, and the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. This comes in addition to official confirmation of the 2010 Buick LaCrosse, 2010 Cadillac CTS Coupe and 2010 Cadillac CTS Wagon. So basically, along with GM's own downsizing, they're also putting plenty of enterprising spy photographers out of business too.
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GM Wants More Money, Fewer Employees; Cadillac CTS Coupe, Saab 9-4X Get The Green Light
GM announced in a press conference this morning that its turnaround progress was proceeding so well that significant layoffs were needed. Oh, and please, send money. But the more pressing concern this week is to come up with $15 billion through cuts to the cost of salaried employees, particularly among white-collar staffers, along with spending in areas like health care costs and dividend payments. As part of its second restructuring this year, the company also announced that the 2010 Cadillac CTS Coupe and Saab 9-4X have been green-lighted. Details on where the job cuts will hit hardest were absent, but if our job description had the word "truck" in it anywhere, we'd be dusting off the resume quick-like. More analysis after the jump. More »
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GM Says Brands Not Under Strategic Review, Just Jobs
On the heels of yesterday's WSJ story that GM was planning to eliminate thousands more jobs and potentially cut another brand, GM spokespeople are denying at least half the claims. Further brands are, supposedly, not under strategic review. Job cuts? Well...yeah, those are probably still going to happen. Our snap analysis after the jump. More »
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GM To Get More Layoffs, Lose A Brand
According to the WSJ, GM's early-August board meeting is likely to result in layoffs affecting both blue- and white-collar workforces. They're also reporting GM is seriously exploring sloughing off another brand, either by outright closure or by placing it up for sale, a-la Hummer's "strategic review." We've put together a quick brand-viability
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Rick Wagoner Announces We May See Chevy Volt Sheetmetal Soon, Eventually
We were beginning to think GM had developed a masterpiece of long-range marketing with the 2011 Chevrolet Volt program. Let reporters in every once in a while, strategically leak images while actually showing nothing, all the while keeping a late-2010 entry on the lips of every eco-dork in the motoring press. Let them build the buzz for you! Genius. However, with Slick Rick's statement that we'll be getting a look at the production sheetmetal for the Volt, we wonder if they've made a strategic error. What it looks like is practically the only thing we don't know about the car. More »
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Hummer Up For Sale, Four Truck Plants Gone?
The times, they are a changin', and this week GM Chairman and Chieftain Rick Wagoner seems to have noticed. Wagoner announced a "strategic review of our Hummer brand," yesterday. Translation: "Anyone want to buy Hummer? Anyone? C'mon...cheap! Cerberus, I'm lookin' at you." Also included in the statement was news that four truck plants will be making the ultimate sacrifice: Moraine, Ohio; Janesville, Wisconsin; Toluca, Mexico; and Oshawa, Ontario. More »
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Wagoner Says G****l W*****g Not A Crock Of Something
Let's put our hands together for Rick Wagoner, the CEO and Chairman of General Motors, who just discovered how to clean up after his s**t-loving Vice-Chairman, "Maximum" Bob Lutz. It was exactly a month ago when we first told you about product czar "Maximum" Bob's claim that global warming was simply a crock of...you know...stuff and finally Wagoner is ready to touch on the topic. Wagoner told reporters in Washington that Lutz's comments about global warming "weren't coming out of the company." More »
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Though we doubt many care, we've got an embedded journalist in San Francisco reporting out to us on what's going on at the NADA annual whatever out there tonight. Our embed will be covering the event live for us but for reasons of NADA-nal security, can't reveal his or her name — so we've nicknamed them "Rick_Fan_001" to protect them. Without further ado, here's our live instant messenger chat of this evening's keynote by GM CEO Rick Wagoner after the jump. Just keep hitting refresh as we add more:
Rick_Fan_001: guy on stage imitating ed sullivan
wertraym: Are you fucking kidding me>?
Rick_Fan_001: nope
Rick_Fan_001: the dealers are going crazy
Rick_Fan_001: they love this shit
Rick_Fan_001: now they are spinning plates on stage
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The Rick Wagoner NADA Keynote Live-Blog
Though we doubt many care, we've got an embedded journalist in San Francisco reporting out to us on what's going on at the NADA annual whatever out there tonight. Our embed will be covering the event live for us but for reasons of NADA-nal security, can't reveal his or her name — so we've nicknamed them "Rick_Fan_001" to protect them. Without further ado, here's our live instant messenger chat of this evening's keynote by GM CEO Rick Wagoner after the jump. Just keep hitting refresh as we add more:Rick_Fan_001: guy on stage imitating ed sullivan
wertraym: Are you fucking kidding me>?
Rick_Fan_001: nope
Rick_Fan_001: the dealers are going crazy
Rick_Fan_001: they love this shit
Rick_Fan_001: now they are spinning plates on stage
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Rick Wagoner Cuts Ribbon
GM's Chairman and CEO, Rick Wagoner, took on a new role yesterday, that of Business Model. Wagoner traveled to Gilbert, Arizona to cut the ribbon at Henry Brown, a local dealer that's the first nationwide to finish construction on a new facility that combines the Buick, Pontiac and GMC brands under one roof. During the event Wagoner remarked, "Henry [Brown] has a real passion for our products, and he's one of the best in the business, He does what a lot of other dealers aspire to." It's not known if the Business Model theme song, Like a Rock, was playing at the time. [Source: The Arizona Republic]
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Caption This: Tailgating Edition
What are we to make of a dapper Rick Wagoner and his lovely wife taking a tailgate moment at the
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CNET Covers GM... Favorably?
Looks like Rick Wagoner making nice at CES ended up being a smart move. The trip to the geekfest by GM's top man has led to gadget industry stalwart CNET giving GM some free press, and it's mostly favorable. CNET Executive Editor Charles Cooper comes close to damning GM with feint praise, but his article comes off as hopeful the General is actually turning the corner on tech and environmentalism. Pretty soon we'll be hearing how more companies should be like GM. Before you know it, exurbanites will be gushing about how environmentally friendly their Cadillac Escalade Hybid is (snicker). [CNET.com]
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We Ask GM's Rick Wagoner About a New El Camino...Back-Asswardly
As we hinted at yesterday — we had the opportunity to sit down (with a group of other auto journos — but it totally felt like it was just the two of us in that room. Or maybe it's just because I could care less about the fuel economy and economic issues surrounding the General, the direction most of the auto hacks were beating their chests to) and talk with GM's big chief exec, Rick Wagoner, yesterday before his keynote address at CES. So what did we talk about? How about future Zeta products hitting US shores — like the reports we've heard of GM greenlighting an
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UPDATE: Rick's just driven out in a Chevy Volt. No clue what it's got under the hood, but it looked to be running under it's own power. Who knew?
UPDATE #2: Provoq concept revealed live — picture after the jump.
We'll have more to come soon, but for the moment — here's the embargoed printed text of "Slick" Rick Wagoner's keynote here at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. Funniest part of the speech has got to be the title of the speech itself:
Rick Wagoner Rocks Down to the Electric Avenue of CES
UPDATE: Rick's just driven out in a Chevy Volt. No clue what it's got under the hood, but it looked to be running under it's own power. Who knew?UPDATE #2: Provoq concept revealed live — picture after the jump.
We'll have more to come soon, but for the moment — here's the embargoed printed text of "Slick" Rick Wagoner's keynote here at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. Funniest part of the speech has got to be the title of the speech itself:
Electric AvenueWe'll let Rick Wagoner take it higher after the jump. More »
The Convergence of Electronic and Automotive Technologies
Rick Wagoner will be rocking down to Electric Avenue in just a few minutes here at the 2008 CES show. What'll he be speaking about? You'll have to check back here at 7:40 PM EST for the full scoop on his speech and our notes from the quick interview we had with "Slick" Rick just moments ago.
gm rides the lightning volt
According to this here self-produced news segment straight from the phallic Detroit tower of power that is the Renaissance Center, the General is really serious about testing the Chevy Volt electric car. And if they're serious about showing us how serious they are about testing the Volt and the E-Flex system, then maybe that means they're serious about building it too. Right? Well — In addition to the knowledge the big automaker from 'merica is now working with their vendor A123 systems on testing Li-Ion battery systems we now know thanks to GM CEO Rick Wagoner, that yes, electric vehicles really are driven by electricity. [via GM]
Yes Virginia, GM Really Is Serious About The Chevy Volt Electric Car
According to this here self-produced news segment straight from the phallic Detroit tower of power that is the Renaissance Center, the General is really serious about testing the Chevy Volt electric car. And if they're serious about showing us how serious they are about testing the Volt and the E-Flex system, then maybe that means they're serious about building it too. Right? Well — In addition to the knowledge the big automaker from 'merica is now working with their vendor A123 systems on testing Li-Ion battery systems we now know thanks to GM CEO Rick Wagoner, that yes, electric vehicles really are driven by electricity. [via GM]
i want you to shake hands and have a good clean fight
Man, the UAW totally gets around, don't they? After UAW chieftain Ron Gettelfinger shook hands with Tom "Keeps The Weight Off" LaSorda on Friday, now he's shaking hands this morning with the general over at the General. So, just as we asked you to do twice already for the Chrysler group, now's your turn to help us caption this GM-UAW handshake of automotive titans. Keep your browsers here at the UAW tag if you want to see the Alan "Boeing, Boeing, Gone!" Mulally handshake later today.
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GM And UAW Try To Play Nice Too
Man, the UAW totally gets around, don't they? After UAW chieftain Ron Gettelfinger shook hands with Tom "Keeps The Weight Off" LaSorda on Friday, now he's shaking hands this morning with the general over at the General. So, just as we asked you to do twice already for the Chrysler group, now's your turn to help us caption this GM-UAW handshake of automotive titans. Keep your browsers here at the UAW tag if you want to see the Alan "Boeing, Boeing, Gone!" Mulally handshake later today.
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