General Motors Corp will announce details of its massive restructuring plan today, including the demise of its Pontiac brand, more factory closures and bigger job cuts as it fights to avoid bankruptcy protection.

THE Michael O’Brien-trained Oligarch Society made it three wins in four races when taking the Listed Dawn Omega Milk EBF Mares’ Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

America’s sinking car industry has told the government it needed even more help to survive than originally thought.

50 Cent has been hit with another setback after the sports truck he launched at the New York International Auto Show last year has had production halted.

GERALD MORGAN says we should commemorate “the heroic fortitude of the common soldier in the service of … Ireland …” in the Great War, and he commends Gallipoli to us if we cannot stomach the Somme (Irish Examiner, March 13).

Chat show queen Oprah Winfrey celebrated the opening of her 19th season on US TV today by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car.

General Motors Corp has no plans to merge Adam Opel AG with GM's Zurich-based European headquarters, GM Europe head Robert Lutz has said in a pre-release of an interview with weekly German newspaper WirtschaftsWoche.