GM Plans New SUV Built in Canada The Cami Automotive plant is to announce the future production of the Chevrolet Equinox, a car-based SUV modeled on the Saturn Vue, at its Ingersoll factory west of Toronto, the Canadian Press reported, citing a person familiar with the plans.
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GM Pours $1.5 Billion Into Saturn GM is pumping $1.5 billion into its sagging Saturn unit and will add up to four new vehicles to the division's lineup in the next four years. Once touted as GM's success story of the 1990s, Saturn Corp. has struggled with a limited line of passenger cars competing against hot-selling trucks and Japanese models.
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GM Pushes Diesel Revival With gasoline prices rising and the fuel-economy debate heating up, GM is renewing a push to relax clean-air standards to allow the sale of more diesel-powered passenger cars and trucks.
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GM Rides High, Ford Flounders, but Tables Turn Fast in Auto World Those who wish to kick Ford while it's down, or pat GM on the back for its current revival, had better hurry up. Ford has been battered in quality surveys, is losing market share, has spent billions on a tire recall and just fired its CEO. GM is on a strong product blitz, appears to have stabilized its market share and is basking in the glow of having hired a new product development hero.
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GM Scores a Triumph in Design Why am I not surprised that Bob Lutz, in just a very short time, seems to have goaded General Motors' talented design staff into whipping up a portfolio of sensational products for the international auto show circuit?
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GM Speeds Product Development to Cut Costs General Motors has integrated its 12 engineering centers and 11 design studios worldwide to bring new cars and trucks to market faster at lower costs, said GM Vice Chairman Robert Lutz in a speech here Tuesday. GM expects to save up to $1 billion to develop its next generation of midsize cars, such as the Chevrolet Malibu, the Saturn Aura, the Saab 9-3 and the Opel Vectra.
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GM Ties Its Bonuses To Nissan A one-time bottom-dweller in the influential J.D. Power rankings, GM believes it is even poised to seriously challenge No. 2 Honda in 2002. "We're not that far away from Honda," Zarrella said.
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GM to Cut Mid-size Lineup GM executives said the company will have 10 mid-size car models by 2006, down from 15 cars across its Chevrolet, Saturn, Oldsmobile, Buick and Pontiac brands.
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GM to Move Rollover Tests General Motors announced plans Thursday to build a rollover-testing facility in Milford as part of a $33-million investment in vehicle safety. GM, which plans to make electronic stability control standard on cars and light trucks by 2010, said in a statement that the new center will be used to develop rollover-sensing systems for air bags and other technology to reduce the likelihood of ejection in a crash.
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GM Unveils New Plan For Saturn Saturn announced today that it has received more than $1.5 billion from parent General Motors to aggressively grow their brand with new products, new styling, and upgraded manufacturing facilities.
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GM Upgrades Its Design Strategy GM's vehicle development boss is betting that more competition between the automaker's designers will result in more stunning new cars and trucks and fewer dogs. Under a new design strategy to accelerate the introduction of more appealing cars and trucks, GM plans to pit a trio of styling teams against each other for each new or redesigned model it seeks to create.
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GM Wins Over Wall Street GM, which is emerging as the automotive darling of investors, is vowing to cut costs in North America by $4.3 billion this year while delivering big quality, productivity and market share gains.
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GM's Rivals Eat Its Dust General Motors is on fire, and the heat is threatening to melt its Detroit rivals the way GM's tactic of planned obsolescence once made the car business so expensive that dozens of rivals quit.
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Good News at GM? It’s been a surprisingly good year for General Motors. True, the market has been in a slump. But the long-embattled automaker has received an array of outside endorsements.
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Huge Losses Could Jeopardize Future Of GM's Saturn Saturn is bleeding money and is under pressure to shed workers, raising questions about the 11-year-old brand's fate. Saturn's troubles normally wouldn't rate such talk. But GM's announcement in December that it will phase out Oldsmobile made it clear that the once-unthinkable is under consideration.
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Hummer Dealers Mimic Saturn To sell monster SUVs, GM plans to mirror the 'market area' approach used by its Saturn division. The market area strategy gives dealerships exclusivity in certain regions, rather than having to compete with many dealers close-by.
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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Buy 'Em The Cruze is symbolic of GM's new approach to Japan, the second-largest car market after the U.S. Following a string of embarrassing product flops -- most recently with its Saturn compact -- GM has bought into a number of Japanese carmakers.
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Innovative Design Is Key To Reviving GM's Brands Robert Lutz, GM's new and outspoken product development boss, has made his top priority the resurrection of the automaker's car line through improved design. With just a month and a half on the job, Lutz has already refashioned upcoming Cadillac and Pontiac cars expected to debut in 2003.
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