rorty:::tort: DAILY: Ford CEO candidate Fields tangled with former CFO Leclair, book reveals | GM readies Cadillac product blitz to catch Lexus | Chevy Volt output halted for 5 weeks to trim stockpiles

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March 2, 2012

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Ford CEO candidate Fields tangled with former CFO Leclair, book reveals
Angry exchange in 2006 included f-bomb; Bill Ford intervened

DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- Mark Fields, Ford Motor Co. president of the Americas and a leading candidate to succeed CEO Alan Mulally, nearly had a physical altercation with another top executive in 2006, according to American Icon, a new book on the automaker's turnaround.
>> story Published: Mar 2 9:26 am U.S. Eastern time / Last changed: 3/2/12 11:10 am ET

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GM readies Cadillac product blitz to catch Lexus

DETROIT -- General Motors Co., having regained global sales leadership from Toyota Motor Corp., is planning new Cadillac models to more than double sales and surpass the Japanese automaker's Lexus brand as the No. 4 luxury line.
Chief Executive ... >> story Published: Mar 2 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern time

GM to halt Volt output for 5 weeks to trim stockpiles

DETROIT -- General Motors will idle the Michigan assembly plant that builds the Chevrolet Volt for more than a month to curb rising inventories of the plug-in hybrid.
GM informed 1,300 workers at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant in Michigan on ... >> story Published: Mar 2 3:38 pm U.S. Eastern time / Last changed: 3/2/12 4:29 p.m. ET

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	Price	Daily change	52-week high / low
General Motors	26.45	-0.08%	33.47 / 19.00
Ford	12.72	+0.47%	16.18 / 9.05
Top Performers	Price	Daily change	52-week high / low
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Group 1	54.58	+1.15%	57.71 / 33.31
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Tower International	11.89	-4.88%	18.33 / 9.45
American Axle	11.45	-3.38%	13.79 / 6.77
Nissan*	20.06	-2.62%	22.23 / 16.18
Hyundai Motor*	28.60	-2.22%	38.25 / 24.00
Denso*	16.51	-1.90%	18.75 / 12.86

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Ryan Beene is a Los Angeles-based reporter for Automotive News.
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