My views on the GM recall, as told to Automotive News

GM’s challenge: ‘Reassure the world’ Lindsay Chappell Automotive News March 13, 2014 – 3:13 pm ET General Motors could face a decade of lawsuits and regulatory headaches over its delayed U.S. recall of 1.37 million vehicles with suspected faulty ignition switches. But GM CEO Mary Barra’s more urgent challenge will be convincing the public that […]…

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Mary Barra at GM: What It Really Means

Much of the media coverage of the selection of Mary Barra as CEO of General Motors has focused on the fact that she is a woman. That’s very interesting, but it’s not all of the story. Here are the other elements that are being largely ignored: –She is part of a generation of GM people […]…

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The Chevy Volt Comes Down in Cost

General Motors CEO Dan Akerson made a splash at a meeting of Safeguard America’s Future Energy (SAFE) in Washington, which I attended, by announcing that GM will introduce a Malibu that can be powered by compressed natural gas. But that’s off sometime in the future. What he said that was perhaps even more exciting was […]…

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Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon

“Bill Holstein is an extremely knowledgeable and perceptive journalist. At a time when GM and the domestic auto industry are in acute crisis, this book makes sense of what has happened–and what should happen next. It’s a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of the American auto industry” — Alex Taylor, Senior Editor, […]…

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