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Turns out GM's employee discount isn't for everyone. The automaker says that improper use of the program cost it $450K.

Though countless General Motors executives have helped shape the Detroit automaker into the company it is today, some of the company's leaders over the past 100 years stand out as central figures in the company's storied history.

General Motors has started offering early retirement to some U.S. salaried workers as the automaker moves to further cut costs.

It makes sense that the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution would grow up.

WASHINGTON -- Tom Albert drove his loaner Chevrolet Equinox like any other car.

My car swills gas, downing shot after shot of rich red petrol. It rumbles rudely at stoplights, scaring the Prius drivers around me. Its flinty suspension -- stiff and unyielding as a tax-department bureaucrat -- pounds my middle-aged back on rough roads. After collecting a relatively minor speeding ticket a couple of summers back, I grappled briefly with car existentialism. "Aren't you a little old to be doing this?" the Dallas cop asked after he caught me with my foot in second gear like some over-amped teen-ager.

Mike Rutherford on the cheapest car to own.

Kevin Ash invites you to a taste of adventure.

Harriet Ridley tries out the lower seat option on a brace of BMW motorbikes

Ferrari Formula 1 team boss Luca Cordero di Montezemolo has confirmed its drivers for the '09 season.