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's status as the only Detroit auto maker to avoid a government bailout has helped the company outperform its rivals.

John Martin, Nissan's global supply-line chief, said the auto maker changed its supplier and made other adjustments.

He said the company is in 'good discussions' with a Chinese auto maker, but declined to name the potential partner.

The U. S. auto maker also is prepared to sell more than $1 billion worth of shares to sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East and Asia.

The auto maker says the export program is expected to be worth several hundred million dollars over the next few years.

Over the past few days, Mr. Kim visited a Chinese auto maker, an electronics manufacturer, a solar-energy company and a discount store.

Saab is the only one of GM's four U. S. brands certain to live on after being axed by the auto maker.

No start-up has grown into a major auto maker in at least half a century.

Another DOT official said the agency is considering a civil penalty against the auto maker.

Nick Reilly, head of GM's Asia-Pacific operations, said China is one of the 'centerpieces' for the Detroit auto maker's future.

'If you're an auto maker and want any chance in surviving, you really have to go global and become bigger, ' Mr. Wang said in an interview.

The auto maker has said needs at least an additional $6 billion in loans from non-U. S. governments for its viability plan to work.

The auto maker is losing $5 billion a year in its home market, and the strong yen has shrunk profits on exports.

That led to a broad rethinking of strategy, as the auto maker struggled with highly publicized recalls.

The company intends to restructure itself by shrinking its dealer network and merging with Italian auto maker Fiat.

It will also knock the company from its spot as world's largest auto maker by vehicle sales, a title it took from GM in 2008.

While GM doesn't own a controlling stake in Wuling, underestimating the unit's importance to the Detroit auto maker would be a mistake.

The sales slump is a blow to the world's biggest auto maker because China is the only major global auto market still growing.

Union officials have said they want the auto maker to remain competitive with its domestic rivals.

The announcement Tuesday is a rare example of a U. S. auto maker tapping a Chinese company for advanced technology.

Another key ingredient of Geely's turnaround strategy for Volvo is to bolster the auto maker's image as a premium brand.

Selling Saab is a key element of GM's revitalization strategy, but the U. S. auto maker has struggled to seal a deal.

Wang decided to acquire a small auto maker named Qinchuan Motors in Xian, but investors voiced strong opposition.

A Chinese and a Japanese auto maker agreed to form a joint venture to produce cars.

A union local at a Kansas plant that builds the newly redesigned Chevrolet Malibu has warned the auto maker it may strike.

SAIC Motor Corporation Ltd. , the biggest local auto maker by sales, warned of a profit decline of more than 50% on weaker sales.

More than 100 people have sued the auto maker claiming crashes were the result of faulty electronics.

The auto maker disclosed the auditors' assessment in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Akerson said troubles in Europe have hindered progress the auto maker was making in restructuring it's Opel European division.

The expansion saddled the auto maker with a massive inventory at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis.

A BMW spokesman in Munich said the auto maker doesn't anticipate the tariff will have a major effect.

The auto maker, in plans laid out earlier this month, said it will issue 365 million shares totaling 24% of the company.

The U. S. auto maker said at the time that it will expand its production capacity in China as well as its product portfolio.

The auto maker's current China lineup includes the midsize Sonata sedan as well as the Santa Fe and other sport-utility vehicles.

The Chinese auto maker, famous both for its plans to market electric cars and for an investment from Warren Buffett, has hit a sticky patch.

The auto maker continues to talk with interested parties about purchasing Saturn and Hummer.

Ever since the government injected $50 billion into the auto maker, many have believed taxpayers would take a bath on deal.

The battle pits the founding Toyoda family against a group of professional managers , each blaming the other for the auto maker's woes .

In 2007 Ford sold Aston Martin, and in 2008 the auto maker shed Jaguar Land Rover and a significant portion of its ownership in Mazda.

GM also fears that in bankruptcy court, the auto maker's restructuring could be stalled by disgruntled creditors.

The auto maker's sales in China rose 19% in August from a year earlier while the U. S. and European markets struggled.

'The last thing China's central government wants to see, for example, is a new major auto maker popping up inside China.

Usually when an auto maker redesigns a model, the old version is discontinued and sells the updated one exclusively .

But with credit markets tightening and collapsing U. S. auto sales draining GM's cash, the auto maker is scrambling to keep itself afloat.

Through July this year, the auto maker sold 17, 330 cars, up 56% from a year earlier.

Domestic auto maker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. has its own Emgrand GE luxury auto aimed at China's wealthy elite.

Both companies have said they don't see bankruptcy as a viable option for any auto maker.

GM had until 2015 to repay the loan , but the auto maker has gradually pulled ahead of its original payment schedule .

A take-over of a large overseas auto maker would fit perfectly into China's plans.

Earlier this year, the wheels finally came off the auto maker.

The appointments are intended to tighten oversight of the auto maker's operations following its collapse in late 2008.

Since acquiring Volvo in 1999, the Detroit auto maker has incorporated the Swedish car maker's chassis platform into certain Ford platforms.

In 2005, she copied thousands of documents, five days after getting a severance offer from the auto maker, according to the indictment.

Changing consumer perceptions is easier if an auto maker launches new, head-turning models.

American auto maker General Motors says it has sold more cars in China than it has in the United States this year.

Dongfeng Motor, the second-largest Chinese auto maker in capital after Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp.

Japan's second-biggest auto maker by sales after Toyota, also cut forecasts for the second time in two months.

It then suggests the auto maker may have gone all-in with the Volt to remain competitive.

It's all but certain by year-end to cede the crown as world's largest auto maker, which Toyota snatched from General Motors Corp. in 2008.

But now we're at a realization stage: can the auto maker sell cars and turn a profit?

That's spurring the auto maker to complete the deal as soon as the end of October, these people said.

The sheer scale of the auto maker's balance sheet is the central problem.

Auto maker profits will start to fall if the yen consistently trades at 84 against the dollar.

And Geely, China's 10th-largest auto maker by sales, may find itself competing against another Chinese company.

The departures clear the way for Mr. Toyoda's planned makeover of the world's biggest auto maker.

Though GM faces problems galore, there is one bright spot in the auto maker's difficulties.

The auto maker raised the profit margin target for its car segment to more than 7% from previously more than 5%.

But that hasn't stopped the auto maker from pursuing other, albeit smaller forms of government aid.

Wang Chuanfu, chairman of BYD, said recently that the car maker is aiming to become the world's largest auto maker by 2025.

It also operates a car manufacturing venture in Shanghai with SAIC, China's largest auto maker.

On Thursday, Daimler, which owns 19. 9% of Chrysler, wrote its investment in the auto maker down to zero.

The world's No. 1 auto maker is suspending, for at least a year, a compact-car production line in Japan.

The auto maker also shut plants at subsidiaries and at its Hino truck-and-bus unit's three factories.

In just six years, BYD has become China's leading domestic auto maker.

The Japanese auto maker has been ravaged by quality and safety concerns in the past six months.

In 2008, Toyota displaced GM as the world's biggest auto maker by unit sales.

The shutdowns mean 40, 000 vehicles won't be produced, said a spokesman for the world's biggest auto maker by sales.

Volkswagen, Europe's leading auto maker, employs some 330, 000 people worldwide.

Even at that price point, the auto maker concedes it will not book a profit on the vehicle.

The Chinese auto maker said only that it is closely watching the GM offering.

The auto- maker recalls a lot of cars that are unsafe.

'We need more capacity, ' Mr. Noh said. 'Every auto maker [operating in China] needs more plants. '

If a $27 billion debt-for-equity offer that was launched in April fails, the auto maker has said it will file for bankruptcy.

Canada would hold an about 12% stake in the auto maker.

The auto maker currently has 127 showrooms in the country.

But for the first 10 month of the year BMW, the world's largest premium auto maker by sales, posted a 15% drop to 873, 318 cars.

China's largest auto maker, SAIC Motor Corp. , is on track to buy around $500 million in GM shares, pending Chinese government approval.

As a result, almost every auto maker in the world is struggling.

GM's actions on Monday demonstrate the lengths the auto maker will go to protect the Volt's image.

The Japanese auto maker 'most likely' will meet its target of selling 800, 000 vehicles in China for the full year, the spokesman said.

BMW, the world's best-selling premium auto maker, said sales of its core BMW brand fell 18% to 90, 643 vehicles from 110, 707 in May 2008.

The Italian auto maker's registrations climbed 4. 7% to 121, 671 vehicles.

The Shenzhen auto maker made the e6 for taxi operators and other fleet customers last year as part of a test-marketing program for the car.

In Japan, charging methods are mostly unified through technology developed by Tokyo Electric Power and its auto-maker partners.

For Europe's largest auto maker, Volkswagen AG (VLKAY, VOW. XE), China became its largest sales region last year.

The auto maker hasn't decide how far it will go to appease the government when it comes to sharing technology.

General Motors Co. on Thursday became the first U. S. auto maker to close a factory because of the crisis in Japan.

detroit auto maker general motors corp . said this month that it will build a comprehensive vehicle testing ground in china