Earlier this morning, GM’s CEO Fritz Henderson held a press conference where he provided a 90 day update on GM’s “Re:invention.” Besides letting us know that the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro is still red hot and selling strong, Fritz gave us some figures on the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox and the 2010 Buick LaCrosse. According to Fritz, [...]
It seems like General Motors CEO can’t keep up with all the questions pouring in from his “Tell Fritz” website, so our main man Maximum Bob Lutz decided to step in. Bob Lutz answers questions about what we can expect from GM advertising, how the automaker plans to attract the younger audience to Buick, why [...]
We were actually just wondering what Ed Whitacre Jr. is up to after taking his new position as chairman of General Motors Company. According to a report by Detroit Free Press’ Tom Walsh, Whitacre is basically scaring the heck out of every top-level GM executive – including Fritz Henderson. Executives said that Whitacre called a meeting [...]
General Motors Company’s new CEO, Fritz Henderson, will be delivering the keynote speech at the 2009 LA Auto Show press preview days. It will be the first stateside show during the auto show season and will be held in December. We’re hoping that GM has something interesting to show us at LA this year. If [...]
GM’s CEO and President Fritz Henderson is optimistic about the economic outlook of the auto industry. Henderson feels that the market has hit bottom and that the future looks bright ahead. “We’re not economists, we’re car salesmen,” Henderson said. “But we see a better situation in the showroom beyond Cash for Clunkers.” Henderson sights primarily [...]
After a day of GM eating up our headlines with new product development stories, we were wondering how your perspective on General Motors has changed. Just for your reference, here are some of things we heard from General Motors today: - 2011 Chevrolet Volt expected to get 230 mpg in the city - GM confirms new Cadillac [...]
In early July, GM announced the launch of a new feature called ‘Tell Fritz” on its GM Reinvention website, where CEO Fritz Henderson would personally review and respond to consumer concerns on a daily basis. Well it took less than a month before Henderson realized, surprisingly enough, that it might be a tad inefficient for [...]
General Motors Company announced today the formations of its new executive committee that will lead the new GM, which recently came out of bankruptcy. The Detroit automaker also announced a number of leadership appointments and retirements. “With these announcements, most of the new GM leadership team is in place,” Henderson said. We expect to have the final [...]
General Motors Company announced today that it sold 1.94 million vehicles globally during the second quarter of 2009, down 15 percent during the same period last year. Nonetheless, compared to the first quarter of 2009, sales were up almost 20 percent. GM sales outside the United States were up 72 percent of total sales. During the [...]
Coming out of bankruptcy known as the new General Motors Company, GM has filed its first public disclosure with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the filing, GM’s new board members will be paid a salary of $200,000 and if applicable, $10,000 for service as a chair of any board committee; $20,000 for [...]
