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GM and Chrysler Submit Updated Restructuring Plans; Up to $18.6B More Needed; Outlines for Product Plans

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As required by the loan agreements signed in December 2008, GM and Chrysler submitted their updated restructuring plans showing a pathway to achieve financial viability to Congress on Tuesday. The plans, updated in the context of a worsening sales outlook for the entire auto industry, outline a need for up to an additional $16.6

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Elio Motors unveils engine prototype for 84 mpg highway 3-wheeler

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We are literally trying to reinvent the auto industry, so why go the conventional route and rework someone else’s engine? Elio and its manufacturing partner Comau will build the vehicle at a manufacturing facility in Shreveport where General Motors previously built the Hummer H3 and Chevy Colorado. Engines Fuel Efficiency'

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GM on the brink…

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It also said it had suspended merger talks with Chrysler to focus on its own increasingly urgent problems, brought on by higher gas prices, a weakening economy and tight credit — a combination afflicting the entire auto industry, but hurting G.M. The government faces a difficult choice. If it provides G.M. The chief executives of G.M.,

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Auto industry as possible. JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Auto industry as possible. , not enough, about manufacture and product , dig a grave drop all in, say a prayer, move on, they have had there day in the sun!,

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