Don’t miss our evening with Automotive Industry Hall-of-Famer Hal Sperlich — one of the greatest product planners ever — on this week’s Autoline After Hours.

Over his career Hal’s given us everything from the Mustang and Fiesta from his days at Ford … to the K-cars and minivans at Chrysler. And Thursday night he’ll give us his opinion on where this industry is right now and where he thinks it’s going.

That’s Nov. 12th, Thursday at 7PM ET — Autoline After Hours with former Chrysler President Hal Sperlich. Get your questions ready for the man whose influence is still seen on the road today. See you then.

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Could more news have been crammed into one week? Hardly. GM decides to keep Opel, Ford posts a billion-dollar profit and Toyota gets in trouble with NHTSA. All that, plus the After Hours guys are all whipped after a nine-hour marathon press conference at Chrysler. So what does Fiat’s wizkid have up his sleeve? Find out in today’s show as John McElroy is joined by regulars Peter De Lorenzo the Autoextremist and David Welch of BusinessWeek as well as guest panelist Paul Eisenstein from TheDetroitBureau.com.

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