New GM charts course for eventual turnaround

GERMANY: Opel Bochum plant to stay open

General Motors's Bochum plant in western Germany will remain open, a senior official has said. The plant, employing almost 5,200…

BELGIUM: GM Europe plan expected this week

General Motors was expected to present a restructuring plan for Opel and Vauxhall to European Union ministers by the end…

GERMANY: Minister urges GM to clarify Opel plans

Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has pressed General Motors to provide more details of its plans for Opel and said…

GERMANY: Opel denies report no plants will shut

Opel has sought to clarify remarks attributed to GM's acting head of European operations Nick Reilly published by Frankfurter Allgemeine…

GOLDING’S TAKE: Genetically Modified GM

General Motors continues to defy the laws of natural selection. It is supposed to be the case that an organism…

EU: EU to host Opel/Vauxhall meeting

The EU Commission has invited General Motors and economic ministers from EU countries with Opel/Vauxhall plants to meet in Brussels on…

UK: Government aid key to GM European restructuring

GM's acting head of European operations Nick Reilly has stressed the importance of aid commitments from European governments as GM…

SWITZERLAND: ‘GM Europe’ disbanded in reorganisation

Recent media reports in Germany may have muddied the waters a tad, but General Motors' European reorganisation is a constituent part…

US: GM lost over a billion in Q3

GM says it lost US$1.2bn in the third quarter after its July 10 exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the…