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General Motors hung a For Sale sign today around Nexteer Automotive, Delphi's former steering division that GM reacquired last fall as part of the supplier's bankruptcy reorganization.

The 2010 Detroit auto show will be getting a political visit from more than just the Democratic side of Washington, thanks to a protest organized by national Tea Party activists set for Monday.

General Motors today celebrated production of the first lithium-ion battery pack at its Brownstown Pack Assembly Plant.

On a key battlefield for capturing today's undecided automobile buyers -- let's call it cockpit connectivity -- car companies are scrambling today to stake out the high ground by offering a dizzying array of ways to keep drivers in electronic touch with stuff they love or crave.

Ford is unveiling a package of technologies today that will allow drivers to control its popular Sync entertainment and communications system not just with voice commands but also with a new touch screen and a five-way circular controller on the steering wheel. The announcement is to be made by Ford CEO Alan Mulally at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The ultra-tiny and ultra-cheap Tata Nano could be headed to the U.S. in three years, according to Ratan Tata, chairman of Indian automaker Tata Motors. That's a longer time frame than the two-year prediction Ratan Tata gave last June for the Nano's arrival in the U.S.

A 1930 Ford Model A that John Dillinger is said to have used in an escape and was later used in a recent movie about the famed bank robber will be sold at the 39th annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Jan. 18-24. The stolen Ford carried Dillinger in 1934 in a successful getaway in Wisconsin while being pursued by police in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

General Motors' future for the next decade or more does not belong to the highly touted Chevrolet Volt, a compact battery-fueled car it plans to start producing in November and sell for about $40,000.