Oracle of Delphi

I saw this when DF posted it, however I recalled that was not the case, but I was out last week for surgery so I decided to send a few E-Mails out to see if it had changed, it had not. Which is why you see GM contacted Autoblog, better to know now, than be surprised later. It seems Mr. Lutz says more than his prayers.

blu, a word of advice, if it smells like fish, eat it! Your Pal Bö®gÉr!

Sorry to hear that, I feel your pain!

That will never happen!

Be careful what you wish for! :AH-HA_wink:

Craig Trudell Automotive News June 24, 2008 - 4:19 pm ET DETROIT -- General Motors, grappling with the dramatic shift in sales from pickups and SUVs to smaller vehicles, said it will adjust production at almost half of its North American assembly plants. The automaker is adding overtime and speeding up lines where its cars and crossovers are made and temporarily closing plants making trucks and SUVs for as long as 12 weeks in the second half of the year. GM is cutting production even after slowing or idling up to 30 plants during the three-month UAW strike at American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. On Monday, June 23, GM said it plans to reduce pickup and SUV production by 170,000 units in the second half of the year, while increasing the output of cars. The company plans to increase car and crossover production by 47,000 vehicles. "With the continuing shift of consumer demand moving from trucks and SUVs to cars and crossovers, we need to balance our production to meet the shift in demand," the company said in a statement. GM car sales through May are off 5.9 percent from the same period in 2007, but total GM sales are down 15.9 percent. Truck sales during the first five months of the year are down 23.0 percent from the year-ago period. The good news Three car and crossover plants will add Saturday shifts and overtime as GM looks to build more of those vehicles. Those plants are: • The Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kan., which makes the Chevrolet Malibu and Saturn Aura. • The Orion Township, Mich., plant, which builds the Malibu and Pontiac G6. • The Lansing Delta plant in Delta Township, Mich., which makes the Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook. Line speed at the Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant will increase to 62 vehicles an hour on three shifts, up from 55 vehicles an hour on three shifts. The plant makes the Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 sedans. GM said it will add overtime to production at the Wentzville, Mo., plant that makes the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans, which combined are down 21.7 percent through May. GM said the increase would handle fleet and commercial orders for the trucks, but the company offered no further explanation. The bad news A week will be added to GM's plans for a two-week closure at four truck plants in July. Those plants are: • The Fort Wayne, Ind., plant and Oshawa, Ontario, truck plant, both of which build the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. • The Silao assembly plant in Mexico, which makes the Cadillac Escalade EXT, Chevrolet Avalanche, Silverado and Suburban, and GMC Sierra and Yukon XL. • The Shreveport, La., plant, which makes the Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon and Hummer H3 GM also said it will shut down two plants making its slow-selling SUVs for two weeks in July. Those plants are the Arlington, Texas, plant and Janesville, Wis., plant. The Arlington plant makes the Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon. Janesville builds the Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe and the Yukon. Several of the truck and SUV plants will be shut down again after July, GM said. The Fort Wayne and Silao plants will close two weeks later in the year. The Arlington plant will close for three weeks, the Oshawa truck plant for seven weeks, and the Janesville plant for 10 weeks in the rest of 2008. GM spokesman Chris Lee said the company will determine when those closures will occur after the July shutdowns. Link: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...p;rssfeed=RSS34

I love these flights, I get to sleep!

Link to story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25331520/

You buying a W body Oldsmobile? :AH-HA_wink:

Ja, Opel ist wunderbar!

Too bad ZL-1 didn't buy this farm.

Here is something a little closer to my GM heart! Just call me one of the troops from Europe! :AH-HA_wink: Ralph Kisiel Automotive News June 23, 2008 - 12:01 am ET DETROIT — On June 10, production of General Motors' hot-selling Chevrolet Malibu threatened to grind to a halt at the Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas City, Kan., because of a computer hardware problem. Enter GM's Global Command and Control Center. The center, in Pontiac, Mich., acts as a window into operations at GM's 185 manufacturing plants around the world. It closely monitors factory networks, servers and critical manufacturing software applications. The center identified and fixed the problem in Fairfax's production information and control system before it escalated. "I think we lost three or four units but made them up" later in the day, says Kirk Gutmann, GM process information officer for global manufacturing and quality. "We got it resolved before we had any outages, so it was basically transparent to the plant." By combining the Fairfax plant's resources with those of the center, GM contained the problem in 10 to 15 minutes and resolved it in 45 minutes, Gutmann says. "It worked. If it hadn't, we would have scrambled a lot more troops from Europe as well as other parts of the globe," he says. "It's a pretty important plant for GM right now." Thanks to the center, GM has reduced dramatically the number of lost units that result from information technology problems in factories. The goal is to detect problems earlier, resolve them faster and prevent little problems from escalating into crises that stop production. The center was globally operational by January. GM has been working progressively with more plants since 2005. Fewer IT woes at GM A global information technology monitoring center has helped GM reduce production losses from IT-related problems. The center has - Significantly cut the number of lost units (vehicles not produced) in the past 2 years - Reduced by 27% lost manufacturing minutes through May, compared with a year earlier - Reduced by 46% the mean time to repair IT-related problems through May Source: GM, EDS When a manufacturing plant encounters an IT problem, GM has three levels of defense. First, each plant monitors potential issues with the IT network, applications and infrastructure. A second level of monitoring exists at three Regional Command Centers in Ruesselsheim, Germany; Sao Caetano, Brazil; and Pontiac. In 2009, a fourth center will open in South Korea. The highest level of intervention is the Global Command and Control Center, near GM's Pontiac truck assembly plant. The center takes daily "health checks" based on data it receives from servers in every GM factory, says Jerry Fullmer, EDS Corp.'s leader of the center. GM developed the center with EDS. EDS operates it. When a problem reaches the global center, the center summons the "top dogs," says Gutmann. They come from such IT suppliers as EDS, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. GM also taps the knowledge of its eight Centers of Expertise, created by the company to maintain manufacturing applications. Each is based in a key plant and is devoted to a specific set of applications. Link: http://www.autonews.com/article/20080623/ANA03/806230315

1968 Grand Prix - I lust after this car, if I find one I will buy it.

Jamie LaReau Automotive News June 23, 2008 - 1:45 pm ET DETROIT -- General Motors told dealers in a teleconference today that it would be launching a 0 percent financing sale starting Tuesday, June 24, while raising prices "across the board" for GM's 2009 models. GM executives also told dealers that they plan on making some production shifts and that they hired Citibank to help review the Hummer brand's future. Attempting to boost June sales, GM's Mark LaNeve told dealers in a conference call that GM would be starting what it calls a "72 Hour Sale." The sale starts June 24 and runs through June 30. LaNeve is GM's vice president of vehicle sales, service and marketing. The sale will offer customers 0 percent interest for 72 months for most Chevrolet and Buick-Pontiac-GMC products, GM told dealers for those brands. As of 1 p.m. EDT, GM had not yet addressed the premium and Saturn dealers. GM will also offer an additional $500 bonus cash to a customer who purchases a vehicle rather than leasing, say dealers who listened to the conference call. According to dealers, LaNeve also said that GM would be raising prices on average by 3.5 percent for most 2009 vehicles. Dealers say LaNeve said the price increases would be across the board. 'We all knew' increases were coming "Some of that is because they're adding more content, but some of it is because commodities are going up and the dollar is weaker," says a dealer who listened to the call, but declined to be named. "We all knew price increases were coming." Dealers say LaNeve said that GM would be adding a third shift at its plant in Lordstown, Ohio. GM builds the Pontiac G5 and Chevrolet Cobalt compacts at Lordstown. GM will go on maximum overtime at its plants in Orion Township, Mich., and Kansas City, Kan. GM builds the Pontiac G6 and the Chevrolet Malibu mid-sized cars at Orion and builds the Malibu and Saturn Aura at Fairfax. GM will also increase crossover production, dealers say. GM will add 3,500 GMC Acadias and 7,000 Buick Enclaves to the mix by year-end. GM builds those vehicles at the Lansing Delta plant near Lansing, Mich. Finally, LaNeve told dealers that GM has hired Citibank to help it complete its study of the Hummer brand. On June 3, GM's CEO Rick Wagoner announced that GM is conducting a strategic review of the Hummer brand and is open to "all options" from revamping the product lineup to a partial or complete sale of the brand. Link: http://www.autonews.com/article/20080623/A...paign_id=alerts

Jamie LaReau Automotive News June 23, 2008 - 12:01 am ET DETROIT — General Motors will unveil a Cadillac CTS wagon this fall in an effort to compete with BMW's 3 series and Mercedes C-class wagons. Cadillac intends to start production in 2009 for global sale. GM has shown a CTS coupe concept to be produced next year. Cadillac also plans to replace its current SRX crossover with a production version of the Provoq concept crossover as a 2010 model. The current SRX has suffered disappointing sales. Sources familiar with GM's plans say the re-engineered and restyled SRX will look similar to the Provoq, a hydrogen fuel cell concept. When the Provoq was shown in January, Cadillac General Manager Jim Taylor told Automotive News that a production version could do something the current SRX has failed to do: draw in female buyers. Taylor predicted a production Provoq could sell 60,000 to 70,000 units annually. Last year, Cadillac sold 22,543 units of the SRX in the United States. The current SRX is built on the Sigma architecture, also used for the CTS and STS. The next-generation SRX will be on a new architecture that is a blend of two GM front-wheel-drive architectures, Theta and Epsilon, and will likely be powered by a V-6 engine. In size it would be between the Saturn Vue and GM's Lambda-based crossovers such as the Buick Enclave. Link: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti.../806230364/1197

Pontiac Grand Prix Daytona 500 Pace car

Now you know I never kiss and tell! :AH-HA_wink: Actually I was a big Pontiac fan, pre Holden's involvement in Pontiac.

For all my Canadian friends, I bring you the Wave!

I don't think you're going to make it, we fly back to Switzerland later today.

Pontiac Astre

Pontiac Phantom 1973

Happy Birthday SuperSport623, as you know it's also my daughter's birthday today. She is 16.

1973 Pontiac GTO

Bill Clinton

Nice, thanks for sharing!