
General Motors’ Opel unit is offering severance packages to the 300 employees producing transmissions at its Bochum, Germany, plant who volunteer to leave this year as the carmaker prepares to shut the factory.

General Motors’ Opel unit is offering severance packages to the 300 employees producing transmissions at its Bochum, Germany, plant who volunteer to leave this year as the carmaker prepares to shut the factory.

General Motors has stopped running dealer-incentive programs in New Hampshire to subvert a new law requiring automakers to be transparent about the dealer incentive programs.

Fiat plans to take full control of the diesel engine manufacturer VM Motori by buying out the half of the company owned by General Motors.

As automakers race to make cheaper electric cars with greater battery range, General Motors is working on one that can go 200 miles per charge at a cost of about $30,000, a top company executive said.
The fall 2013 general meeting of the National Automotive Service Task Force (NASTF) is Wednesday, Nov. 6, and one of the important topics on the afternoon agenda is counterfeit tools.
Bob Stewart, manager of aftermarket service support for General Motors, was recently charged with coordinating the GM response to this threat and has agreed to share his knowledge with the independent aftermarket in a session titled “Who’s Cheating Whom.”