... demanding fresh concessions for long-term federal aid and raising the possibility of quick bankruptcy for either ailing auto giant. Obama took the extraordinary step of announcing the government will back new car warranties issued by both GM and Chrysler ...

... administration used the $700 billion Wall Street rescue fund and lawmakers are questioning whether the once-mighty auto giants can survive. Still, with Washington spooked by massive job losses that provided the latest evidence of a deepening ...

... events kept moving: Wall Street slid, news surfaced that U.S. carmaker Chrysler could be purchased in part by Italian auto giant Fiat, and prosecutors at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, sought to suspend all war-crimes ...

... against a Tuesday deadline to submit a plan to the government showing how it can become viable. The Detroit-based auto giant is living on $9.4 billion in government loans, and the Treasury Department must approve its viability plan for GM ...

... chief executive G. Richard Wagoner Jr., who faced the possibly impossible task of turning around the long-ailing auto giant in the midst of the deepest financial and credit crisis in a generation, was forced out by the White House. Mr. Obama ...

... Motors' long-anticipated day of reckoning a little more than a week away, nearly all signs are pointing to the wounded auto giant limping its way into bankruptcy court, but experts say that might not be as bad as once expected. Car and truck buyers ...

One of the first real challenges President-elect Barack Obama faces will be what to do about the ailing American auto giants. The stakes are high. For more than 100 years, the Big Three automakers have been a cornerstone of the U.S. economy ...

... that work in dealerships nationwide. If just one of the auto giants were to go belly up, some estimates put U.S. job ... companies develop more fuel-efficient vehicles to meet the auto giants' immediate financial needs. Voinovich and Sen. Kit ...

... bid to woo a top tier employer has been the one that got away - an $800 million Toyota Tundra plant that the Japanese auto giant is building in San Antonio with a planned opening in late 2005 or early 2006. Arkansas officials, after finishing second ...

... quit a few years later and went to work for Ford Motor Co., but got lost in the massive bureaucracy of the Detroit auto giant. He went back to work at P&G a few years later, and finally left the consumer goods company for good in 1987 for ...