<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>General-Motors News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=28&amp;catid=37</link><description>News Feed for - General-Motors</description><item><title>GERMANY: Opel denies report no plants will shut</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96360760&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T02:12:00</pubDate><description>Summary: Opel has sought to clarify remarks attributed to GM's acting head of European operations Nick Reilly published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Becoming a Full Member of just-auto is </description><source>Just-Auto</source></item><item><title>GM, Chrysler plans to go public may be effected by slow recovery</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96360010&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T02:02:00</pubDate><description>CHICAGO, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Slow recovery in 2010 could hamper cash flow and efforts by General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC to rebound to the point that the companies can go public, according to </description><source>Xinhua News Agency</source></item><item><title>Newfield Partners: General Motors May Buy Opel From Itself.</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96359633&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T01:57:00</pubDate><description>Newfield Partners, GM board are looking at alternative ways to solve the Opel bidding crisis. General Motors may have a twist in the ongoing saga with Opel. Insiders close to the deal have told Newfield </description><source>IT Backbones</source></item><item><title>Gloomy forecast for U.S. auto sales in 2010</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96358284&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T01:44:00</pubDate><description>Greg Keenan Globe and Mail Update T The annual rate of U.S. vehicle sales is likely to fall short of some auto makers' forecasts next year, according to a new industry forecast. That casts doubt on the </description><source>Globe and Mail</source></item><item><title>GM: Less than 200 Return Cars in Buy-Back Program</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96356672&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T01:10:00</pubDate><description>DETROIT A General Motors executive said late last week that less than less than 200 customers have either returned their vehicle under GM's 60-Day Money Back Guarantee program or started the steps to </description><source>Auto Remarketing</source></item><item><title>Magna, GM and Opel</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96351881&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T00:06:00</pubDate><description>Frank Stronach should thank the gods, or at least General Motors, for taking away his chance to prove he can build cars better than customers of his Magna International empire. After all, the Canadian </description><source>Canadian Business Magazine</source></item><item><title>G.M. Seeks Assistance From Europe for Opel</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96351487&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T23:58:00</pubDate><description>BERLIN Â? As executives of General Motors met Monday with European officials to ask for financial help in overhauling its struggling auto operations, Germany reopened a bitter public debate over state </description><source>New York Times</source></item><item><title>G.M. Asks for European Aid</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96349316&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T23:31:00</pubDate><description>General Motors executives convened with European officials in Brussels on Monday to request financial aid in their restructuring plan, reopening a public dispute over state aid and job protections.   </description><source>TransWorldNews</source></item><item><title>Apriso FlexNet helps Shanghai General Motors improve efficiency</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96349221&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T23:30:00</pubDate><description>- Apriso announced Shanghai General Motors (SGM) implemented FlexNet for Quality Containment, as part of initiatives to improve tracking of materials across production, reduce the cost of quality and </description><source>Automation.com</source></item><item><title>Boards of directors need to get CEO search right</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96348955&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T00:11:00</pubDate><description>Succession planning should be an ongoing process for boards of directors, not a periodic activity. When Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis unexpectedly announced in September he was stepping down at the </description><source>Reliable Plant</source></item><item><title>Cosma to build frame assemblies for GM in recession-battered St. Thomas, Ont.</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96346893&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T22:52:00</pubDate><description>AURORA, Ont. - Magna International Inc. (TSX:MG.A) had some welcome news for recession-battered St. Thomas, Ont., on Monday, announcing that it has been chosen to supply frame assemblies for General Motors' </description><source>Canadian Business Magazine</source></item><item><title>2 Fired From GM Plant After Go-Slow</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96344804&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T22:51:00</pubDate><description>Vedomosti The management of General Motors' St. Petersburg plant has fired two workers for carrying out a 'go-slow' strike - union leader Yevgeny Ivanov and member Olga Shafikova. Ivanov received his </description><source>St. Petersburg Times Russia</source></item><item><title>Magna wins contract for next-gen GM truck frames</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96344656&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T22:50:00</pubDate><description>TORONTO (Reuters) - Magna International said on Monday that it has won a contract to make the third generation of frames for General Motors Co's full-size light-duty pickups and sport utility vehicles. </description><source>Yahoo! Canada</source></item><item><title>Opel needs 3b euro rescue</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96343821&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T20:59:00</pubDate><description>World General Motors will present a plan to European governments to save struggling carmaker Opel within days, a rescue set to cost 3.3 billion euros, those involved in talks said. GM this month backtracked </description><source>stuff.co.nz</source></item><item><title>GM, Chrysler Hope Incentives Will Boost Sagging Sales</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96343403&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T20:56:00</pubDate><description>Advertisement By Truman Lewis ConsumerAffairs.com ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½ --- ï¿½ General Motors and Chrysler, left in the dust by Ford's soaring sales in the last quarter, are pouring on the gas, hoping to ignite </description><source>Consumer Affairs</source></item><item><title>GM warned against state 'subsidy race'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96339273&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T20:20:00</pubDate><description>Brussels has warned General Motors that it would not tolerate a subsidy race between European Union member states competing to offer the American carmaker generous state aid in return for keeping open </description><source>Times Online</source></item><item><title>GM asks EU for more restructuring cash</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96338607&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T20:16:00</pubDate><description>Weeks after killing a deal to sell its Europe-based Opel unit, GM has asked EU leaders to help pay $5 billion in restructuring costs to turn its European division around. General Motors' need to bear </description><source>Yahoo! Canada</source></item><item><title>Magna unit wins GM auto frame deal</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96337816&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T20:02:00</pubDate><description>An operating unit of Magna International Inc. has been chosen to supply frame assemblies for a new generation of full-size pickups and SUV from General Motors. Three-month stock chart for Magna International </description><source>CBC</source></item><item><title>Are new models cruising into GM Lordstown?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96337636&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T20:09:00</pubDate><description>Officials at the General Motors car plant here said production plans have not changed, despite news reports that the automaker may be shifting some production from South Korea to Lordstown. Tom Mock, </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>General Motors to present plan to restructure struggling Opel this week</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96336993&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T20:03:00</pubDate><description>GM will present a rescue plan for Opel to European governments by the end of the week and EU officials will discuss possible aid on December 4. GM Europe CEO Nick Reilly said GM needs 3.</description><source>Automotive News</source></item><item><title>GM: not doing well, but going back to the well anyway</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96335125&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T19:47:00</pubDate><description>General Motors tried to sell Opel. No deal. So   The Volt, a GM plug-in, is due to launch in the U.S. in about one year.</description><source>ZDNet</source></item><item><title>General Motors calls on EU states to pay most of $4.9B restructuring costs</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96332430&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T19:25:00</pubDate><description>BRUSSELS, Belgium - General Motors Co. on Monday asked European governments to help pay most of the US$4.9 billion it needs to restructure its struggling European operations. At talks in Brussels Monday, </description><source>Stockhouse Canada</source></item><item><title>Opel Reopens German Debate Over Aid</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96330707&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T22:53:00</pubDate><description>As executives of General Motors met Monday with European officials to ask for financial help in restructuring its struggling auto operations on the Continent, Germany reopened a bitter public debate over </description><source>New York Times</source></item><item><title>Magna unit wins GM deal</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96329976&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T19:03:00</pubDate><description>Cosma to build frame assembly for next generation pickups and SUVs The Canadian Press Aurora, Ont. â?? Magna International Inc. had some welcome news for recession-battered St. Thomas, Ont., on Monday, </description><source>Globe Investor</source></item><item><title>Germany anxious for General Motors to shed light on plans for Opel</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96325146&amp;Channel_ID=28&amp;Category_ID=37</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T16:37:00</pubDate><description>German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, right, has pressed General Motors to shed light on its plans for Opel and said the U.S. group had a responsibility for workers at its European unit. A GM executive </description><source>Financial Post</source></item></channel></rss>