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Updates from May, 2010

  • New U.S. marketing chief Joel Ewanick is accelerating the churn of advertising messages at General Motors Co. Ewanick has scrapped Chevrolet's weeks-old print advertising tag line, "Excellence for All."
    1:01 am on May 31, 2010
     
  • Chrysler Group and General Motors Co. are getting mixed results from arbitration hearings.
    1:01 am on May 31, 2010
     
  • Honda Motor Co. said 'most' workers at a parts factory in China are willing to return to work, possibly ending a strike that has stopped its auto production in the country.
    11:21 pm on May 30, 2010
     
  • A Honda Motor Co. parts plant in China has pressured school interns not to strike, after labor discontent closed all its vehicle factories in the world's biggest auto market, the South China Morning Post said today.
    2:01 am on May 30, 2010
     
  • The automotive safety bill progressing through Congress in the wake of Toyota Motor Corp.'s historic recalls could lead to major cost implications for certain suppliers if federal regulators seek to beef up automotive 'black boxes.'
    1:01 am on May 30, 2010
     
  • Kruse Inc., the auction company that sold the famous William Harrah car collection and has been synonymous with auctioning enthusiast automobiles since the 1970s, has lost its licenses in its home state.
    12:43 am on May 30, 2010
     
  • Fisker Automotive said today it has raised $189 million, enabling the California startup to launch its plug-in hybrid sports car this year.
    4:16 pm on May 29, 2010
     
  • Suzuki's Indian unit more than doubled rural sales last year. Its agents visit farmers' markets and villages to expand the automaker's reach as competitors challenge its dominance in cities.
    3:29 pm on May 29, 2010
     
  • Toyota Motor Corp.'s 62 percent boost and Nissan's 57 percent gain led Japanese automakers' global production increases in April as demand continued to rise in Asia and the United States.
    1:30 pm on May 29, 2010
     
  • General Motors Co. and the U.S. Treasury may choose an underwriter as soon as next week for the automaker's initial public offering, two sources told Bloomberg.
    3:54 am on May 29, 2010