Robert Nardelli

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, Business News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

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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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
Steve Parker

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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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
Steve Parker

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/Chrysler Merger - 70,000 Idled

Steve Parker | Posted 10.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Slovakia, Hemi Hybrids, Chrysler, Dodge Viper, Norway, Cars, Spain, Ford, Dodge Durango Hybrid, Chevrolet General Manager Ed Pepper, Ford Escape Hybrid, SEMA Show, Los Angeles Auto Show, Cerberus Capital Management, Daewoo Lacetti, General Motors, Greece, Robert Nardelli, Hybrid Cars, Finland, Mercury Milan Hybrid, Plug-in Hybrids, Portugal, Chrysler Aspen Hybrid, Detroit One, Chrysler CEO, Czech Republic, Kurt Busch, Bob Nardelli, National Legal and Policy Center, Ford Fusion Hybrid, GM Chrysler Deal, Detroit Three, GM Chrysler Merger, Daewoo, Chevrolet Cruze, Gmac, Peter Flaherty, South Korea, Roger Penske, Mercury Mariner Hybrid, Nlpc, Business News
Steve Parker

It wasn't hard to predict the demise of the "Hemi hybrid," but the end came a lot faster than expected. They should have given them a full year of production before, literally, pulling the plug.

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Chrysler to Cut 25% of Salaried and Contract Jobs

New York Times | Nick Bunkley | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Layoffs, Chrysler GM, Chrysler, Robert Nardelli, Bob Nardelli, Cars, Jobs, Job Cuts, Business News

The automaker said that it would offer buyout and early retirement packages in the next two weeks and that layoffs would follow in December. As many a...

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Notes on Europe - Chrysler's troubles, Nardelli speaks, VW buys-out dealers, death of a neo-fascist

Steve Parker | Posted 10.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Automotive News, Europe, John McCain, Chrysler, Cars, Volkswagen AG, Highland Park, Austria, Daimler, Daimlerchrysler, Joerg Haider, Kurt Waldheim, Wall Street Crisis, Cerberus Capital Management, Nissan Sentra, Brilliance Jinbei Automotive, Dodge, Robert Nardelli, Germany, Jeep, Brilliance, Autobahn, China, BS4, Business News
Steve Parker

Chrysler's CEO, Robert Nardelli, who has been running the company for just 14 months, fears the collapse of an "extremely fragile" auto industry amid ...

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Chrysler Chief Robert Nardelli Talks About The Future Of Cars

CNBC | Posted 09.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Robert Nardelli, Bob Nardelli, Phevs, Cars, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Michael Eisner, Hybrid Cars, Green Cars, Business News

Chrysler Chief Robert Nardelli visited with Michael Eisner on CNBC's "Conversations With Michael Eisner" to talk about futuristic cars, hybrids, the f...

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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
Steve Parker

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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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
Steve Parker

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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Following GM, Chrysler Cutting Truck Production

Reuters | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Dodge Ram Pick Up Sales, Chrysler, Robert Nardelli, Truck Sales, Chrysler Production Cuts, Suv Economy, Chrysler Trucks, SUV Sales, Dodge Ram, Business News

Chrysler LLC may cut production further amid a steep drop in truck sales, according to a Wall Street Journal online report citing an interview with Ch...

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Ten Smartest CEO Moves Of 2007

Portfolio | Liz Gunnison | Posted 12.27.2007 | Business

Read More: Blackstone, Pete Peterson, Lloyd Blankfein, Rex Tillerson, Jack Weil, Nintendo, Exxon Mobil, Michael Dell, Angelo Mozilo, Steve Schwarzman, Rockmount Ranch Wear, Richard Grasso, Dell Computers, Chrysler, Goldman Sachs, Satoru Iwata, Apple, Countrywide, Robert Nardelli, Nyse, Steve Jobs, Business News

The bottom has dropped out of the banking business, brokerages are floundering, home foreclosures are soaring, and the threat of recession looms. What...

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Chrysler CEO Says Company Is "Operationally" Bankrupt

Wall Street Journal | JOSÉE VALCOURT and NEAL E. BOUDETTE | Posted 12.21.2007 | Business

Read More: Chrysler Bankrupt, Chrysler, Bankruptcy, Cerberus Capital, Robert Nardelli, Business News

Chrysler LLC has slipped into a serious financial crunch just four months after Cerberus Capital Management LP swept in to save the auto maker. At a ...

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Petra Nemcova, Tony Snow and Dan Rather Walk Into A Bar...At The AMC, It Just Might Happen

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.26.2007 | Media

Read More: Pilar Guzman, Waverly Inn, Cephalods, Cnbc, Conde Nast, David Zinczenko, Robert Nardelli, Tony Snow, Arianna Huffington, Petra Nemcova, Dan Rather, Cindi Leive, Eileen Naughton, Mark Halperin, Media News

The American Magazine Conference kicks off in Boca Raton this weekend, and between the wandering EICs, columnists, biz dev types, CEOs, anchormen and supermodels, there should be plenty to glean from all perspectives.

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