DETROIT SHOW: Hail to the (GM) chief
Author: just-auto.com editorial team | 12 January 2009
General Motors stage-managed chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner's Detroit show keynote address with the same sort of carefully-vetted 'supporters' waving banners for the TV cameras seen at presidential campaign stops in the US last year.
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