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Yesterday, we mentioned Jeff Pulver’s road trip through the Midwest to drum up awareness of the #140conf, which is coming to Detroit in October.
On Sunday, Pulver and his Buick Enclave (Buick is the lead sponsor of the Detroit #140conf) rolled into Cincinnati, visiting startups like Share this Voice and venture accelerators The Brandery, while still finding time to tweetup with folks from Cincinnati’s social media community.
The tweetup, fittingly, was held at a place called the Cadillac Ranch. Gotta love it.
Monday found Jeff rolling through Indiana to Indianapolis for a lunchtime tweetup, then all the way to St. Louis for another tweetup. Then today, more tweetups in Kansas City MO, and Omaha.
Getting tired just thinking about it! Of course, the culmination of all this traveling is a visit to Detroit on Aug. 28, setting the stage for October’s #140conf.
You can keep up with Jeff’s travels on his blog. - Will Stewart, blog editor
August 24th, 2010
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, GM
The Detroit auto industry's annual summer shutdown is a tradition that goes back many decades, but this year,
General Motors is taking a pass. It comes from a time when the new model year started in September for every car and they all debuted simultaneously, usually in dealer showrooms. The shutdown was the two week period in the summer during which all the plants installed updated tooling for the new models.
In more recent times, the practice has persisted as a time to do maintenance and other work that might interfere with production - even if it hasn't coincided with the launch of a new model. This year, however, GM's inventories on many models are running so low that nine of the automaker's 11 assembly plants will keep producing vehicles during the designated shutdown period. Among the plants that will stay open are the Detroit-Hamtramck plant that builds the
Cadillac DTS, the Delta Township plant builds the
Lambda crossovers and the
Chevrolet Corvette plant in Bowling Green, KY. Full press release after the jump.
[Source: General Motors]
Continue reading GM nixing summer shutdown, hiring thousands of temps to meet demand
GM nixing summer shutdown, hiring thousands of temps to meet demand originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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June 18th, 2010
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Filed under: Crossover, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Rumormill, Luxury
Brace yourself,
Cadillac fans. Word has just come down the pike that The Crest will "absolutely" be getting a new model based on none other than the Lambda architecture. That means that a variant of the
Chevrolet Traverse will be sold under all four of The General's brands. So far, drivetrain options are still up in the air and vague at best, but we'd be willing to bet our lucky penny that both front- and all-wheel drive models will be available. Chances are that power will come from the same 3.6-liter V6 found under the hood of every other Lambda out there, too.
It's hard not to approach this with a cynical eye. Right after the company's 2009 bankruptcy blitzkrieg,
GM promised the world that it was through with badge engineering for good. Swapping nameplates and fenders had done much to lead the company to the brink of collapse, and the waves of fresh new models hitting our shores had us thinking that maybe the company had turned over a new leaf.
By all accounts, the Chevrolet Traverse and
Buick Enclave are selling well, so is this a case of Detroit getting greedy or is the company simply trying to spread development costs as thin as possible? Either way, it will take something really special to convince us that this is a smart move.
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Report: Cadillac to get seven-seat Lambda variant originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 27 May 2010 11:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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May 27th, 2010
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Buick Back?
Later this month I'll be heading out to San Diego to get my first ride in the new
Buick Regal. It's a trip I'm looking forward to, something I couldn't have said about most of the
Buick product previews I've attended over the course of my 30 years on the auto beat.
Let's face it: Since the days of the classic Riviera, the long-struggling General Motors division didn't have a lot to offer other than "badge-engineered" products that appealed to a limited core audience of aging Buick buyers. One GM wag once suggested that the average age of the division's buyers was "nearly dead." And as that audience steadily dwindled, so was Buick.
Consider that over the quarter century from 1984 to 2009, Buick sales plunged nearly 90% from 941,611 to just 102,300 and you understand why so many industry analysts began urging GM to abandon the Buick brand long before last year's bankruptcy. Yet when the ashes of the century-old automaker rose like a phoenix last July, Buick remained among the four surviving North American "core" brands.
To understand why, I just need to talk with an old friend, Al Abramson, a long-time dealer in Asian art, jewelry and antiques, and one of the first Westerners to go behind the so-called Bamboo Curtain after the fateful meeting between Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong.
Paul A. Eisenstein is Publisher of TheDetroitBureau.com, and a 30-year veteran of the automotive beat. His editorials bring his unique perspective and deep understanding of the auto world to Autoblog readers on a regular basis.
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May 10th, 2010
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