Articles tagged with: General Motors
Chevrolet is celebrating its centennial anniversary this year, thus it is fitting that this all-American brand is enjoying record sales. But, it isn’t only in the American market where Chevrolet is enjoying a growing appeal: …
Chevrolet is celebrating its centennial this year and with it we’ll be following a number of events marking this auspicious occasion. The company founded by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant in 1911 was acquired …
The Chevrolet Impala is an aged five passenger front-wheel-drive sedan, reintroduced in late 1999 as a 2000 model. Based on the same W-platform that underpinned the previous generation Buick LaCrosse, the Impala is nonetheless a …
U.S. auto sales for March 2011 continue to show promise although the momentum seen in February seems to have slowed a bit. Higher fuel prices, global uncertainty and a tepid economic recovery are factors which …
The federal government currently offers buyers of electric cars a $7,500 tax credit, but that may not be enough to get people to buy a Chevrolet Volt, Nissan LEAF or other eligible vehicle. Legislation introduced …
Chevrolet’s subcompact car offering is the Chevy Aveo, produced by GM Daewoo, the automaker’s Korean subsidiary. But, there are some name updates in the works including changing the company’s name to GM Korea and the …
Last week, Jason Lancaster shared “Trends Indicated Compact Pickups Will Die,” outlining the declining interest for these types of trucks at least in North America. Elsewhere, demand for smaller pickup trucks remains strong, primarily in …
By Harrison Card
GM will again try to badge engineer a piece of success with the Buick Verano. Named after a somewhat obscure northern Italian city, the polished “Chevy Cruze” will go on sale for …
The General Motors Company announced a profit of about $4.7 billion for 2010, reporting its best year since 1999 and first profitable year since 2004 according to the Detroit Free Press. The automaker emerged from …
If the name Carla Bailo sounds familiar to you, then you have been following the career of a woman who left General Motors in 1989 for Nissan to work as a vehicle test engineer. Bailo’s …
Saab may no longer be owned by General Motors, but its current and upcoming product line consists entirely of models dating back to its relationship with its former owner. Today, the brand is officially part …
On average, General Motors knocked $3,762 off of the price of new cars sold in January 2011, for the highest incentives in the industry. Cadillac incentives were much higher, averaging just about $5,600. Those deals …
Today is the first of two media days for the 2011 Chicago Auto Show with Friday the official start of the public segment. From February 11-20, 2011, Chicagoland residents will be able to take in …
General Motors knows that its electrified Chevrolet Volt has limited reach both in terms of the number of vehicles its can produce annually and in customer demand. Even with an available $7,500 federal tax credit, …
Prior to filing for bankruptcy, pundits were used to General Motors making exaggerated boasts about upcoming products or for coloring its future positively even as the automaker hemorrhaged billions of dollars monthly. Following restructuring, the …
No sooner had the ink dried (or the post was published) on this morning’s article about GM possibly being the top selling automaker in the world comes word that Toyota, indeed, is still tops. But, …
Early this morning, General Motors released internal data for cars sold globally in 2010, reporting 8,389,769 units had been sold. That number reflects an increase of 12.2 percent over 2009, with China now the largest …
If you haven’t heard of Coskata, Inc., before you will now. Coskata gained important exposure in January 2008 when General Motors announced that it was taking an undisclosed share in the company, a business that …
Over the past several years, the employment picture in the auto industry was nearly as bad as dead tree media — tens of thousands of workers took early retirement or were laid off as the …
General Motors is making sure all of the love its premium Buick brand received in 2010 bleeds over into 2011. Buick was the fastest growing brand last year, riding a crest of customer demand for …
GM’s OnStar connectivity service is the Grand Daddy of all such systems, founded in 1995 and available on many GM models. Likely, OnStar is the most recognized name in vehicle navigation and communication, but it …
General Motors is once again the top retailer of passenger cars in America, seeing its sales rise by 6.3 percent over 2009. Sales for its four core brands rose by 21.3 percent with Buick …
Chevrolet’s mid-size sedan offering received a tremendous boost when the next generation model was released for the 2008 model year. The design change was profound, taking a bland and boxy body style and replacing it …
The 2011 Buick LaCrosse is a five passenger midsize sedan, one of four models sold by Buick in the United States. The LaCrosse, introduced in 2005, was updated in 2010. It is one of two …
The Cadillac SRX is a five passenger medium sized crossover sport utility vehicle now in its second generation of life.
That first generation model was underpinned by the chassis powering the CTS sedan, offered an optional …
Joel Ewanick has held more positions in the past year than executives usually see in a decade, moving from Hyundai to Nissan to General Motors within the span of a few months earlier in 2010. …
When it comes to visual appeal, the Chevrolet Impala trails most other full-size models in this category. Indeed, when the latest generation Ford Taurus was released for 2010, the Impala’s age became strikingly apparent.
No matter, …
If the GMC Terrain looks familiar to you, it is. Think Chevrolet Equinox and you’ve got that model’s twin. Don’t count on GM to quit badge engineering even with four fewer brands to manage, but …
With the closure of Pontiac in 2009, the remaining Buick-GMC lineup lacked a sports sedan such as the G6 or G8 for customer consumption. That glaring omission was quickly resolved when GM decided to tap …
The plug-in Chevrolet Volt may be one of the most hyped vehicles of our time. That also means everyone’s expectations are high as this electrified sedan hits the market beginning in November 2010.
Hyping a product …
As expected, November 2010 U.S. auto sales rose, increasing by approximately 17 percent over November 2009.[1] Across the board increases were enjoyed by all major car manufacturers except for Toyota with General Motors leading the …
Nexteer Automotive, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors, has been sold to a Chinese company in a deal worth $420 million. Nexteer, a producer of global steering and drivelines for electric and hydraulic steering …
The Environmental Protection Agency has released mileage and range details for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, an electrified vehicle, listing the sedan at 93 miles per gallon (mpg) in all-electric range. Additionally, the EPA developed two …
Chevrolet’s Corvette has been around since 1953, one of the most enduring model names of all time. Only in 1983 did the world miss out on a brand new Corvette, as General Motors worked through …
The Buick Lucerne’s days as flagship for GM’s premium marque are numbered, leaving brand leadership to the Enclave crossover and LaCrosse sedan. The five-passenger LaCrosse, the larger of two medium size sedans sold as Buicks …
We’ve been hearing since this past spring that Chevrolet expected an “economy” version of its compact Chevy Cruze to be certified by the EPA at 40 miles per gallon highway when the testing was accomplished …


