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What Happens When Malibu Meets Train

Somewhere, in the middle of a vast prairie, a factory sits churning out award winning cars in ’round the clock shifts by happy employees.
The seventh-generation Chevy Malibu is a popular little mid-sized sedan and is sent from this spot to the far reaches of where buyers will settle for buying them. This is what happens [...]

It’s Like This, GM. When Did Bad News Become a PR Machine?

Today I realized that on a productive day (meaning I am researching, reading and learning and not on Facebook), that I will have at least 3 tabs open in FireFox that are either bad or leaning towards bad news regarding GM. If you were to look at my Delicious account you would see that when [...]

GM & Chrysler Buyouts For Employees Decrease: Leaving Was Worth More Last Year

GM and Chrysler have decided to offer hourly employees buyouts to leave the companies and decrease their expenses again. That really isn’t that shocking considering that the companies are desperately trying to pare down expenses in order to meet the terms of a bailout for the industry but there are a couple of interesting points [...]

State of the Independent EV: Buddy Can You Spare a Ni-MH

Recently I “overheard” someone say that if a small company like Tesla could make it, what the hell is wrong with GM and Ford?
Oh boy. We should probably all be very grateful that is not the case.
The contemporary electric car is such a lovely romantic idea and I am not one to knock the dreamers [...]

Redux: Who Killed the Electric Car (GM & the EV1 from an Insider’s View)

This blog was written 1 1/2 years ago by a good friend who an industry expert & veteran of the automotive industry. Steve loves all things cars and has taught me an unmeasurable amount about the industry. I wish that he would write more often but for now I wanted to share this insightful review [...]