As announced yesterday, GM will soon have a bank’s support in their attempt at getting the public listing they have been seeking for quite some time.

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The announcement of a choice being made came even sooner then expected as today the U.S. Treasury made public the name of the bank chosen for the task at hand.

According to The Detroit News, the U.S. Department of the

We all know that the news from Detroit’s Big Three don’t always come in to put a smile on everyone’s face and Chrysler is the one that has been seeing less of the good type lately. However, a recent announcement from the U.S. Government may be proof that the hope Sergio Marchionne has been talking about still exists.

Chrysler's Auburn Hills Headquarters

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On numerous occasions, de facto Car Czar Steven Rattner has said that neither he nor the U.S. government wants to be in the auto business--at least not for long. Those sentiments were reaffirmed yesterday when Rattner indicated that the feds are planning to sell off their 60.8% stake in the New GM as soon as possible.

In its race to exit the auto industry, the government probably won't receive a terrifically high return on the loans it has made to General

Way back in December, at the beginning of the Chrysler/GM bailout, back when everyone was afraid to utter the word "bankruptcy", the third member of Detroit's Big Three saw opportunity--specifically, the opportunity to make itself shiny and new. In much of Ford's PR, the company expressed sympathy for its failing rivals while simultaneously refusing bailout dough. We saw that for what it was: a not-too-subtle re-branding campaign, and it's proven awfully successful.

To illustrate, here's some data

Every now and then, one of our posts sparks a nice online discussion. Typical topics: the fate of General Motors after the government bailout, whether hybrid cars are for conscientious citizens or effete wimps ... and, of course, taxes.

Yesterday, we asked GreenCarReports.com readers to weigh in on a challenge facing the funders of highway and bridge repair all across the country. The problem is that as average gas mileage rises, less gasoline will be bought, so gas tax revenue will

In a move that's sure to please certain talk show hosts pushing for a GM boycott, the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission has said that auto dealers for the new General Motors might not be granted licenses to operate in the state.

In a nutshell, LMVC executive director Lessie House is opposed to language in the letters of participation that General Motors recently sent to its dealers in Louisiana (the ones it isn't cutting from the network). In the letters, GM indicates that the U.S.

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