GM fires CEO of 1 year Fritz Henderson..
Update: Video added of Thad McCotter R-MI who I think is great, on Cavuto tonight
4:55 pm EST: Well. If you’re an investor and that conference didnt scare you nothing will. Whitacre had what looked like a legal pad and papers, he spoke for 90 seconds, said he will take the role while they seek a new CEO, he took no questions and left.
LeBeau is noting that CNBC had an interview scheduled with Fritz tomorrow from the LA Auto Show. Also that Whitacre has mentioned several times, ‘I am not a car guy’, since being brought on as Chair. Yep. And now he is President CEO and Chair, oh goody! Talk about bizarre timing, we knew Fritz wanted to sell Opel and the Board did not, but WTH happened to make them fire Fritz tonight?
Ain’t being run by the union and the government grand?
4:15 pm EST: Breaking on CNBC now, Presser on “Significant Decisions” by the Board in 10 mins..
Update: Phil LeBeau at CNBC has scoopage:
…It is unclear whether he is stepping down on his own, or whether he was asked to resign. It’s also unclear who will take his role as CEO, but GM Chairman Ed Whitacre will serve as interim CEO, according to the Associated Press.GM said it will hold a news conference at 4:30 pm on “significant decisions” by the board. CNBC.com will carry it live. General Motors had no comment.
Ed Whitacre the man who used to run ATT that they dragged out of retirement to be Chairman. Oy!
Henderson took over for former CEO Rick Wagoner when the White House removed him from the position in March….
Think about how scary that is, “when the WH removed him form the position”. Under what possible authority did they do that? And the sooper genius economists and academics were fine with it, so now no capital will invest in American jobs. Maria Baritromo just interviewed Larry Fink and he said he expects 2% GDP in 2010, a million jobs lost in state govt and populism and unemployment anger at the mid term elections. Man oh man.
FORD CEO Alan Mulally on breakout profitability
And the UAW is REJECTING the contract because FORD has the nerve to be PROFITABLE, slitting their own throats, again. Because they know their friend in the WH will cover them. Unreal.
what toolz!
‘City Car’ – TATA Motors Nano: “looks like the bastard offspring of a one night stand between the Prius and a Ford Aerostar”…
BWAAAAHAAAA!! Gawd I love that line and had to do a post just to share it :0)
Title quote found in comment by Brian DR1665 on June 09, 2009 at 10:36 AM on CarLust found by way of Glenn at Instapundit..
Video Courtesy of autocar:
From David Colborne’s Nano review at CarLust:
…But wait – it gets better. As numerous news outlets are pointing out, Tata is planning on bringing this little bastion of affordable motoring to the United States. Naturally, this begs the question–will it follow the path laid down by the VW Beetle, burrowing a place into our automotive hearts, or will it simply rust out of our consciousness like the Citroen 2CV?To help us answer that question, let’s run through the specs:
- 2 cylinder, 33 horsepower engine
- 4 speed manual transmission
- 0-43 mph in 14 seconds
- Top speed of 75 miles per hour
- 47 miles per gallon
- Drum brakes all around
- Seats four
Nano ‘luxury’ model, with air conditioning!
>But guess what? Someone has already made a ‘car’ smaller and cheaper than the Nano:
the only small car I liked was Laura Holt’s convertible Rabbit on Remington Steele., nifty Cabriolet ….but that was a German engineered car (and I think they still had electrical problems)…..not a Pelosi engineered shxtbox or cheap collapsible SUBcompact like the Nano…imo… …not for use with NYC cab drivers in the vicinity thats a fer shure
Courtesy of calayo29
More after the break..
AceHQ: GM Reinvention Commercial Parody…
From AceHQ by way of gmretardation
Update 2: Chrysler sale on hold for appeals court ruling: Video Update: GM, Chrysler Execs and more importantly Dealers themselves on the same panel, on the Hill now..
Update 2: Via Gabriel Malor at AceHQ, there is an appeal on the request for a stay of the sale, of standing, and of a removal to a court of general jurisdiction, the full scoop here…
…The sale hearing was supposed to happen tomorrow, but it’s now on hold while the Second Circuit Court of Appeals takes a stab at the stay motion. The oral argument at the appeals court will now be on Friday. What happens next will largely depend on how the court rules. Earlier, the bankruptcy judge stated that his breakneak pace is because Chrysler is losing $100 million a day while it waits on the sale….
Video Update courtesy of the lady herself:
must see if you can CSPAN should have it
also on FOXBusiness live now..
Jim Press Chrysler President is a lying liar obfuscator of facts, evader and wielder of vague generalities and the dealers on the panel with him have made that abundantly clear..Press claims he has a log showing chrysler contacted every single dealer, the dealer on the end of the table says he has been contacted exactly once June 2 after Sen Hutchison called Chrysler for him…
I say they are lying , obfuscating facts, evading and wielding of vague generalities, these execs b/c they wont give ANY detailed explanation of metrics used to shut these dealers down, they just keep saying the auto task force was not involved at all, I call BS….ohh Fritz is getting nailed down on how much Car Czar team knew and when.
AHA now it comes Fritz was told on March 31st that they were too slow and Not Aggressive enough, uh huh, see they WERE involved, oh ches….aHA Rattner and Bloom…they cant say how much money it will save to close these dealers down….that was Sen Mike Johanns R-NE asking great questions!
Sen Hutchinson says a NEW dealer will have to be setup in Waco TX b/c all three of them were closed down…
Now Fritz says there was no cost benefit analysis done?? WTF? WTF? No cost benefit analysis of location by location, Chrysler too! wth?!
Press says only non performing dealers are closed, dealer says one guy in WVA who gets to stay open only sold 19 cars last year and has his ‘dealership’ on his front lawn, while he has been closed…
this is the last best chance these dealers have..
Sen Kay Bailey Hutchinson has their back and made Press look like the liar obfuscator he is in her sweet TX way
Amy Klobuchar is taking Press to task now for her MN dealers…
This one Chrsyler dealer his grandfather opened his dealership in 1918, kept it open thru wwii depression etc and is profitable…
unreal!!
check it out, will get clips up as theya re available…
GM Plants to close…MI, TENN, DE, OH….
1/3rd of GM hourly workers fired with our 50B investment….
General Motors Corp. said Monday it will shutter 17 factories and parts centers by the end of 2011 as part of its plan to restructure under Chapter 11 protection.
The list includes seven factories in Michigan and plants in Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee. Two of the closures had been previously announced, including a castings factory in Massena, N.Y., which closed May 1. Three of the facilities to close are parts centers, and three factories could reopen if market demand rebounds.
The move was expected after GM cut a deal last month with the United Auto Workers as part of its effort to smooth the company’s path through bankruptcy. About 20,000 factory jobs — more than one-third of GM’s U.S. hourly work force — are slated to go under the auto maker’s plans.
The closures also include assembly plants in Orion and Pontiac, Mich., Spring Hill, Tenn., and Wilmington, Del. Stamping plants in Grand Rapids and Pontiac, Mich., Indianapolis, and Mansfield, Ohio, will close. Powertrain factories in Livonia, Flint and Willow Run, Mich., and Parma, Ohio, will close. One idled factory will be converted to a small-car plant where GM will build a subcompact.
SUB compact, as in smaller than a compact???, good grief, maybe TOTUS will give out cars with food stamps cuz I cant see anyone buying a SUBcompact….
ginaswo
