GM's auto sales, which include Chevrolet, Buick and Cadillac, increased to 172, 969 units.
News Tuesday that Toyota has surpassed GM in worldwide auto sales could further embolden the push for U.S. companies to have greater access to the Korean auto market.
Fiat also has an option to sell the remaining 80% of Fiat Auto to GM from next year.
It's based on a fundamental, "irreconcilable difference between the firm and its two main constituencies"--GM and the United Auto Workers.
Neither GM nor the United Auto Workers returned calls for comment.
BuyPower not only gives GM an answer to Auto-By-Tel and CarPoint, it also allows the Detroit giant to build an immensely valuable consumer database and a chance to interact directly with consumers, bypassing the dealers.
Developed in partnership with 13 major auto manufacturers including Ford, GM and Chrysler, the state of California, the United Auto Workers (UAW), consumer and environmental groups, and other stakeholders, these achievable and cost-effective standards represent the most significant federal action ever taken to improve fuel economy and reduce carbon pollution.
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Reaction now to yesterday's extraordinary move by the world's largest auto maker, GM.
Among the US industry's recent woes have been poor results for major auto companies including GM, the biggest carmaker in the world and one of Dana's customers.
According to statements to the press made by company officials at the Shanghai Auto Show, GM is targeting 100, 000-plus exports of Chinese-made cars this year, a record, with export growth likely to be more than 50%.
At the end of the day, Delphi's move into Chapter 11 seems to have less to do with its imminent demise otherwise than it does with forcing the hand of the United Auto Workers and GM.
The government plans to sell about one-fifth of its 61% stake in GM, and the United Auto Workers union, which owns about 10% through a health care trust for retired workers, also plans to unload some of its shares.
This week's tentative contract with the United Auto Workers will rid GM of some of its biggest costs.
Italy's Fiat Auto, of which GM owns 20%, is in deep trouble.
Ford has traditionally lagged other major auto majors such as GM, Volkswagen and Toyota in China primarily because it was too slow to enter the Chinese market.
This must have been a point Marchionne really wanted to make, because despite the increasingly crucial place in the presidential campaign that has come to be occupied by the auto bailouts, both GM and Chrysler executives have been nearly completely mum about it.
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Sales growth exceeded the 1.5 percent growth in total worldwide auto sales, according to GM.
Chevrolet dealers, for example, participate in what the auto maker calls the "GM Preferred Owner" program.
's Chevrolet dealers, for example, participate in what the auto maker calls the "GM Preferred Owner" program.
To market its BuyPower.com auto-shopping site, GM chose to ally with AOL--but also with free-service provider NetZero.
GM, on the other hand, sees an opening to sprint ahead of Toyota, which recently surpassed GM as the world's biggest auto seller.
Other deals going ahead include General Motors' purchase of Korean auto maker Daewoo in which GM would acquire all 30 of Daewoo's overseas units.
Ford saw a 5.7% gain in new vehicle sales, with its Fusion and Escape models setting all-time monthly sales records, while GM's U.S. auto sales rose 6.4%.
"The good thing is, we're not poles apart in brand imagery and there's no overlap between our vehicles, " points out Pawan Goenka, the ex-GM executive who heads Mahindra's auto and farm-equipment business and now chairs SsangYong.
The Agnellis resisted several foreign attempts to take over the group throughout the 1990s, but eventually did a deal with General Motors under which the American carmaker bought 20% of Fiat Auto, and Fiat Auto acquired 5% of GM (which it has since sold to raise cash).
Henderson also said he is confident GM will work out concessions from the United Auto Workers.
In the year before GM and Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, the auto industry shed over 400, 000 jobs.
"What GM did was brilliant, " says veteran auto industry analyst Maryann Keller.
Theoretically, once the program is launched nationwide (which GM says it believes it will do) auto buyers won't have to visit dealerships anymore.
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