Auto supplier leaders will join the Detroit 3 chiefs in Washington, D.C., this week to push for emergency federal aid to the automotive industry.

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GM will sell its remaining stake in Suzuki Motor for 230 million US. The troubled automaker is selling off assets to raise cash as GM is losing about 2.3 billion US dollars a month at its current rate.

GM puts out a video on the dire consequences to the US economy if the big 3 automakers are allowed to collapse. GM, Ford and Chrysler are hoping for a government bailout in the form of 25 billion US dollars in loan guarantees.

Collaboration deals between Abarth and its new partners Intel and Yamaha promise to bear future fruit. Right now though they bear a super-fast gaming PC and a lightweight bike.

Thirty-three Chrysler LLC dealers from 25 states converged on Washington today to lobby lawmakers for a bridge loan to get the domestic industry through its crisis.

A lockout of workers by a Canadian supplier of aluminum parts to General Motors and Ford Motor Co. is entering its second week, a labor leader says.

A Georgia state senator has filed a bid for the flagship store of bankrupt dealership group Bill Heard Enterprises Inc. On Friday, Nov. 14, Sen. Emanuel Jones bid $12.5 million for the store in Columbus, Ga.

Automakers that receive federal aid should double the fuel economy of their fleets by 2020, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said today.

Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Chrysler, LLC.The roundabout that was the Chrysler, LLC-Getrag partnership recently came to an end with Chrysler pulling out the deal, citing untenable financing terms. Now Getrag Transmission Manufacturing, the U.S. company that was going to build the dual-clutch transmissions for Chrysler, has filed for Chapter 11. Getrag has done so in order to streamline its handling of claims and creditors.Of course, it's n
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Filed under: Etc. Click above for a gallery of the DC Designs Ambierod We don't know how we missed this, but earlier this year DC Designs - the car-creator founded by Dilip Chhabria - unveiled the DC Ambierod at the 2008 New Delhi Auto Expo. The coupe was supposedly inspired by the Hindustan Ambassador, on which the Ambierod is based, and Chhabria wanted to create the Indian equivalent of the Holden Efijy concept from 2005. In short, he failed -
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If you think you're insulated from the death rattle of Detroit, think again. General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler together accounted for 3.3 percent of 2007 U.S.

Getrag Transmission Manufacturing LLC, a planned U.S. transmission-building operation in Indiana, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after Chrysler LLC's pullout from the joint venture.

A bailout for the automobile industry being pushed by Democrats would assist companies that shouldn't be getting aid, open the door to other undeserving applicants, and stretch the limits of government, according to several prominent economists and...

Speaking on the sidelines of the dedication of a new Honda Motor Co. assembly plant here, a U.S. congressman said reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court would be preferable to a federal bailout of the Detroit 3. U.S. Rep.

Cash-strapped General Motors will dump its 3 percent stake in Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp. for about $230 million as it scrambles for funds to avert collapse.

Chrysler LLC appears to have a deal with German axle maker ZF Friedrichshafen AG to operate an axle plant being built in Marysville, Mich.

The Detroit 3's quest to secure emergency federal aid has inspired a rush of letters from our readers. Here's a sampling. We will add more as they come in.