General Motors


Tips and rumours: Easter bunnyload of hot tips

A bucketload of anonymous tips sent to Crikey. Has KPMG sacked 50 people in Perth? And is The Gruen Transfer offending its audience?

Obama leaves Chrysler running on empty

The Obama Administration's new, dramatic US car industry policy is a whack in the head with a blunt object, writes Glenn Dyer.

Dyer’s business wrap: Ireland a basket case … GM chief quits

Deflation is once again stalking Japan — European manufacturing has got the staggers; the UK economy is contracting nastily, but Ireland is the global basket case as its economy shrinks at rates approaching a Depression.

Dyer’s business wrap: US stocks tumble … GM on the brink

For the second time this week, world markets have lurched deeper into the abyss, writes Glenn Dyer.

GM and Chrysler have ‘Oliver Twist’ moment

The automaker begging bowl is again being passed around Washington, with General Motors and Chrysler asking for an extra $US21 billion from the Obama administration, says Glenn Dyer.

US car sales on highway to hell

The US car industry is in deeper dispair at the start of 2009 than it was at the end of 2008, writes Glenn Dyer.

Real economy: New ways to slash and burn

It’s been another day and night of bizarre activity in the shrinking real economy, writes Glenn Dyer.

Chrysler shuts up shop for a month

Chrysler has joined General Motors in trying to take some control of its destiny by shutting down for Christmas, writes Glenn Dyer.

US on the road to somewhere else

In the US, plunging car sales means fewer cars, less trips and less deaths on the nation’s roads, writes Glenn Dyer.

Detroit demands new $US34 billion bailout

America’s car sales slump deepened in November and the industry is now teetering on the brink of total collapse, writes Glenn Dyer.

GM suffers biggest slump since WW2

General Motors has just endured its worst month for sales since the end of the Second World War, writes Glenn Dyer.