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Detroit 3 headlines: Fiesta sales top half million so far

Ford Motor Co. has sold more than a half million Fiestas since introducing it in Europe a year ago as it prepares to sell the tiny global car in the United States next summer. The Fiesta is the second-biggest selling car in...

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Inside autos: Cherry's new street rod

Wayne Cherry, the former General Motors design chief, is back in the car business. He showed off a street rod concept at the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association show in Las Vegas last week. Cherry told the Motor Trend...

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Olympia bakery co-owner takes reform message to D.C.

OLYMPIA – San Francisco Street Bakery co-owner Gene Otto says that without health care reform, he’s not sure how much longer he will be able to pay his employee health insurance premiums. Otto traveled to Washington, D.C., last...

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SUSAN TOMPOR: Credit shortage threatens supplier growth

The end of the Great Recession is a welcome sight. But business won't be back to normal soon. Instead, you'll hear executives like Michael J. Alcala, who runs AZ Automotive Corp. in Center Line, talking up the "new normal."

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TOM WALSH: Reasons to temper our optimism

For every reason to hope that the battered Detroit region has survived the worst and is en route to recovery, Newton's Third Law seems to apply: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

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Saturn: Wealth of lessons from failure

KNOWLEDGE@WHARTON • November 8, 2009 General Motors' decision to scrap its Saturn brand triggered frequent retellings of the many ways in which GM missed an opportunity to recast itself and the auto industry. But Wharton...

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A Run On Detroit's Parts Makers

Big money is chasing the thousands of outfits that supply U.S. carmakers It's hard to imagine a less sexy business than auto parts -- especially these days. The industry has nearly every problem afflicting American business:...

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Wolfsonian exhibit drives plan for weekend of serious car gazing

The inspiration for the upcoming A Very Wolfsonian Weekend Gala -- which includes visits to classic-car museums, a talk by renowned car designer Chris Bangle and Mitchell ``Micky'' Wolfson's 70th birthday party -- began, of...

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GM in talks to bring Chinese cars to India: Report!

Updated on Saturday, November 07, 2009, 14:40 IST Tags: New Delhi: US auto giant General Motors is in advanced talks with its Chinese partners on a proposal to bring their vehicles to India, according to the a news agency. GM...

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GM boss set to take charge of JLR

The departing boss of General Motors Europe, Carl-Peter Forster, is all set to take charge of Indian conglomerate Tata group-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) in the next few months, a media report has said.

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