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Beijing’s New Traffic Curbs Will Harm Vehicle Sales
By Chris Haak In China today, Beijing's municipal government imposed some dramatic new rules that will curtail the number of new cars that can be registered in the city starting...
IIHS Announces 2011 Top Safety Picks
By Chris Haak The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit funded by member insurance companies, has released its top safety picks for 2011, and there are a large...
GM, Chrysler Each Set to Add 1,000 Engineering Jobs
GM and Chrysler - yes, the same two companies that shed tens of thousands of white-collar and production employees over the past few years as both firms stumbled into bankruptcy...
GM Pulls off a Successful IPO at $33 Per Share
By Chris Haak Less than a year and a half after its predecessor, General Motors Corporation, collapsed under the crushing weight of declining sales and market share,...
Platform Sharing Set to Increase Dramatically
By Chris Haak Automotive News reported this week on an analysis prepared by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers that projects huge global production volumes for shared...
GE Plans to Buy 25,000 Electric Vehicles
By Chris Haak Giant industrial conglomerate General Electric has announced plans to purchase 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 for its fleet. These purchases represent fully...
GM Launches IPO
By Chris Haak General Motors Company, a little over a year after exiting Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, launched its initial public offering yesterday. It marks the first...
GM Shows New Vauxhall and Chevrolet Models Ahead of Paris Debuts
GM's main brand in Europe, Opel, has really been struggling for the past few years. In spite of critical acclaim for many of its new models, including the awarding of the...
Breaking: GM CEO Whitacre to Step Down September 1
By Chris Haak I can hear the ticker-tape machines humming away in the background as I write this from the Full Metal Autos newsroom. Hot off the press comes word that 68 year...
Chrysler, GM, and Ford Dominate YTD Fleet Sales
The auto industry's paper of record, Automotive News, did a nice piece of reporting in this week's issue (link here , via TTAC) on the explosion in fleet sales at Ford, GM, and...