Word: chevrolets
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...Motors, currently begging for a bailout from the U.S. government. China has been a rare success story for GM in recent years, where its Buicks and Chevys have been consistent market leaders. A sharp downturn in China, auto analysts say, will add to GM's woes. While sales of Chevrolet-branded cars have remained robust, sales of Buicks fell 14% so far this year, according to GM. Still, GM remains committed to China, where earlier this month, Kevin Wale, president of GM China, said the company plans to introduce 10 new models...
...General Motors have an excellent range of fuel-efficient models in their overseas car plants, so all Detroit has to do is to apply their overseas expertise in the U.S. I drive a 1.2-liter Opel Corsa (made in Germany) and our second car is a 0.8-liter Chevrolet Matiz (made in Korea). These cars aren't "gas guzzlers." Jan Nieuwenhuizen, DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS...
Michigan, after all, did not romanticize the automobile by itself. We made the cars; the mythology of open-road optimism was an after-market accessory. It was the work of advertising agencies in New York that rhymed U.S.A. with Chevrolet; Californians like the Beach Boys and George Lucas, who made American Graffiti; New Jerseyans like Bruce Springsteen, who sang about pink Cadillacs, Chevrolet Deluxes and suicide machines sprung from cages out on Highway...
...tends to be more wistful. After the Motown era, which more or less coincided with the end of Detroit's glory days as a city and an industry, you have to look hard to find songs by Michigan musicians about driving. Instead, Bob Seger--Michigan's Springsteen, who gave Chevrolet its "Like a Rock" slogan--reminisced about the backseat of his '60 Chevy in "Night Moves" and sang "Makin' Thunderbirds" about workers building Ford muscle cars in 1955: "They were long and low and sleek and fast/ They were classic in a word...
...least some of their jets, and all three CEOs said they would forgo salaries if they got the help they need, though that may not satisfy critics who claim the companies need entirely new management. More significantly, GM has pledged to consolidate its sprawling number of brands (focusing on Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC), cut more than 20% of its remaining jobs, shutter almost a quarter of its factories and try to reduce crippling labor costs by reopening negotiations with the United Auto Workers. Ford, in its plan, stated that it would roll out all-electric models within two years...