Rick Wagoner

Do It For Me, Matchbox Man

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Gm, Alan Mulally, Rep Emanuel Cleaver, United Auto Workers, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Aston Martin AMV10, Ducati Motorbike, Sen. Bob Corker, Chrysler, Robert Nardelli, Michigan, Lamborghini, Ron Gettelfinger, Ford Mustang, Mini, Financial Crisis, Porche 911, Sen. Chris Dodd, Uaw, Detroit, Indiana, Big Three, Jet, Ceos, Fighter Jet, Nascar, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Bailout, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Three, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Chysler, Auto Industry, Business News

From the fireworks in DC this week, you might think the auto crisis is out of your hands, but we're all complicit: government, CEOs, autoworkers, the public.

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Automakers Get Deadline To Make Their Case

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Gm, Robert Nardelli, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Big Three, Congress, Alan Mullaly, Business News

WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders began laying out conditions Friday that they say Detroit's Big Three automakers need to meet before Congress wil...

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Apparently, It's the Government's Fault Detroit Is Bankrupt

Andrew Winston | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Gm, Japanese Auto Sales, Rick Wagoner, Ford, US Auto Sales Rate, Jim Collins, Toyota, Honda, Wall Street Journal, CAFE Standards, Chrysler, Nissan, Auto Sales, Good to Great, Detroit Bailout, Suburu, Barack Obama, Business News

We're seeing an amazing act of willful ignorance here. The predicament that Detroit has found itself in is an American business tragedy. Let's not make it worse by lying to ourselves.

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Big Three CEOs And Their Private Jets (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Private Jets, Chrysler, Slideshow, Corporate Jets, Gm, Alan Mulally, Robert Nardelli, Automobile Industry, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Big Three, Cars, Big Three Automakers, Automobile Industry Bailout, Business News

The CEOs of the nation's biggest three automakers flew to Washington DC yesterday to make their case before congress that the auto industry is despera...

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Detroit's Day of Reckoning (with Thanks to David Halberstam)

Steve Parker | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Chapter 11, Peter Morici, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Rick Wagoner, David Halberstam, Cars, Chris Dodd, Ford, Robert Lutz, Nissan, Robert Nardelli, US Senate, Detroit, Richard Shelby, President Bush, Masters of the Universe, Northwest Airlines, Uaw, Bankruptcy, Gm, Alan Mulally, Pebble Beach, Detroit Three, Washington DC, Democrats, Barack Obama, Tokyo Motor Show, Ron Gettelfinger, Code Pink, Harry Reid, Republicans, Dearborn, Business News

This week's bailout hearing signaled what looks like the ultimate day of reckoning for this country's once-great and world-dominating car making industry. All Americans are tired of the excuses.

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Big Three CEOs Flew Private Jets To Plead For Public Funds

ABC News | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Private Jets, Chrysler, Gm, Finance, Robert Nardelli, Alan Mulally, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Financial Crisis, Cars, Big 3 Private Jets, Big 3 Private Flights, Big 3 Ceos' Private Flights, Business News

The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation's capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto i...

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Journalist to GOP: You're 100 Percent Wrong About U.S. Automakers

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Chapter 11, George Bush, Harley-Davidson, Toyota, Alan Mulally, Rick Wagoner, Honda, Diane Tucker, Recession, Barack Obama, Ford Motor Co, Detroit Automakers, Chevrolet Volt, Bailout, General Motors, Economic Recession, Recession Fears, Tariffs, Financial Crisis, Peter De Lorenzo, Richard Shelby, Auto Industry, John McCain, GM Bankruptcy, Fuel Efficiency, Green Cars, Foreign Car Industry, Foreign Cars, Fuel Efficient Cars, Imported Cars, Gm Chapter 11, Congressional Bailout, Business News

"People who say the U.S. doesn't innovate are woefully out of touch with Detroit's standing in this business."

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Memo to Detroit: Change Now or Die

Steve Parker | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Boeing, Chevy Volt, Saturn, Chrysler, Gm, Alan Mulally, Ucla, Gary Shapiro, Rick Wagoner, Epa, W. Edwards Deming, Ford, Cars, Cerberus Capital Management, General Motors, Ces, Robert Nardelli, William Clay Ford, Nhtsa, Japan, Plug-in Hybrids, SUV Sales, Business News

Most Americans think you have brought this disaster upon yourselves, with inferior, irrelevant products the past 35 years.

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Democrats Telegraphing Upcoming Automaker Bailout?

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Gm, Robert Nardelli, Rick Wagoner, Economy, Nancy Pelosi, Ford, Automaker Bailout Criteria, Cars, Financial Crisis, Congress, Business News

WASHINGTON — The auto industry and business groups mounted a lobbying onslaught Thursday to thwart GOP opposition to a Senate vote next week on ...

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GM Making Case That It's Too Big To Fail

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 10.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, GM Loan, GM Bailout, Bailout, Gm, GM Chrysler Deal, Economy, Rick Wagoner, Financial Crisis, Cars, Business News

Is General Motors too big to fail? Rick Wagoner would sure like us to think so. Mr. Wagoner, the chief executive of the ailing automotive giant, spen...

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GM's Wagoner Makes Case On YouTube (VIDEO)

CNBC | Phil LeBeau | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Retirees, Gm, General Motors, Finance, Economy, Rick Wagoner, Pensions, Cars, Personal Finance, Video, Business News

If you are GM CEO Rick Wagoner, what do you do? The man in the top job at the struggling automaker is pulling every move possible to keep his company ...

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Detroit's inferiority complex needs change before public will buy

Steve Parker | Posted 09.27.2008 | Business

An observation, or two: Last week, General Motors rolled-out the latest version of their plug-in gas/electric hybrid Chevrolet Volt for the corporati...

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Chevy Volt Will Be Made In Flint, Michigan

AutoblogGreen | Sam Abuelsamid | Posted 09.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Chevy Volt, Gm, Rick Wagoner, Electric Cars, Cars, Phevs, Green Cars, Chevy Volt Manufacturing, Business News

At an event in Flint MI today, GM CEO Rick Wagoner and Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm were on hand to officially announce that GM will be buildin...

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THE LATEST: $25 BILLION FOR DETROIT; PRODUCTION CHEVY VOLT PLUG-IN HYBRID UNVEILED

Steve Parker | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Turbochargers, Boeing, Gas-Electric Hybrid Technology, Automotive News, General Electric, Hemi Hybrids, Saturn, Chrysler, Rick Wagoner, Honda, Detroit News, FCX Clarity, Ford, Home Depot, Goldman Sachs, Equinox, Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles, General Motors, Robert Nardelli, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Charlie Rose, Flex, Gm, Alan Mulally, Detroit Three, Chevrolet, Volvo, Washington DC, Cars, Chevrolet Volt, JPMorgan Chase, Chrysler Jeep, Ford Escape, Wall Street, Opel, Focus, Green News

Today's Detroit News newspaper reports that, because big investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase own huge amounts of GM and Ford cor...

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GM's CEO Has Done a Horrendous Job -- So Why Does the Board Still Support Him?

Henry Blodget | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business

Read More: George Fisher, General Motors, Gm, Rick Wagoner, Business News

In the past three and a half years, GM has lost more than $67 billion. CEO Rick Wagoner has presided over all of this value destruction.

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Will Your Company Predict the Future Like GM or Like Toyota?

Andrew Winston | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Car Sales, Big Three Automakers, Gm, Rick Wagoner, Toyota Prius, Ford, Toyota, Honda, Business News

Toyota did look forward years ago, asked what an environmental version of its product should look like, and made it a reality.

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Can GM Survive?

Steve Parker | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Buick, Rick Wagoner, Detroit Auto Show, Home Depot, Bob Lutz, General Motors, Robert Nardelli, Toyota Prius, Pontiac GTO, Plug-in Hybrids, Paris Auto Show, Energy, John McCain, Gm, Alan Mulally, Chevrolet, Beat, Volt, Duke University, Harvard Business School, Detroit Automakers, Corvette, Chrysler, Chevrolet Volt, Bmw, Ford of Europe, Holden Commodore, Cadillac, Cruze, Pontiac, Camaro, Daewoo, Oldsmobile, Cobalt, Business News

John McCain visited a GM factory and said if cars like the Volt, a plug-in gas/electric hybrid GM is developing, really do make it to market (still a question mark), "hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created." He's wrong.

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Midwest Auto Workers Look To Obama For Change

Dan Treul | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

"GM won't change anything until they have every operation overseas," says Danny. "This started back in the 1980s with Reagan... We know we're not going to get any help from McCain."

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GM To Discuss Restructuring For "Current Market Conditions"

Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Chevy Volt, Gm, Economy, Hybrid Cars, Rick Wagoner, Electric Cars, Oil Prices, Cars, Business News

General Motors Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner plans to hold a news conference Tuesday morning to discuss actions the company is takin...

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Ding Dong the Hummer's Dead!

Jessica Jensen | Posted 06.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Green Living, Gm, Hummer, Rick Wagoner, Green News

Dear Rick: we'd like to suggest you go a step further and acknowledge that the Hummer was an anachronistic tragedy whose time has come to disappear from the face of the Earth.

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Harvard Business School's Greatest Lesson

Fortune | Geoff Colvin | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Harvard, Business School, Harvard Business School, Rick Wagoner, Jeffrey Immelt, HBS Alumni, Hbs, Business News

Does Harvard Business School have a future? Its storied past will get extra attention when the school turns 100 years old on April 8. But in a fast-ch...

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GM Announces New Hybrid System

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 03.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Lithium-Ion Battery, Hybrids, Geneva International Motor Show, Electric Cars, Electric Motors, General Motors, Gm, Rick Wagoner, Automakers, Hybrid Engine, Business News

DETROIT — General Motors Corp. says it expects to bring its first lithium-ion battery powered hybrid engine system to market in North America in...

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GM Offers Buyouts to 74K Hourly Workers

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 02.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Gm, General Motors, GM Losses, GM Buyouts, Rick Wagoner, Business News

DETROIT — General Motors Corp., eager to lower wages and staunch the kinds of losses it saw in 2007, said Tuesday it is offering a new round of ...

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GM Posts Biggest Annual US Auto Loss

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 02.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Gm, General Motors, United Auto Workers, Uaw, Rick Wagoner, Business News

DETROIT — General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and sa...

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"Headwinds" Jumps The Shark

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business

Read More: G. Kennedy Tompson, Tom Peters, Rick Wagoner, Ceo, In Search of Excellence, Robert Waterman, Wall Street Journal, Jerry Yang, Wachovia, Headwinds, Business News

It seems impossible to describe the current business environment without using the word "headwinds".

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