General Motors have a bit of an announcement to make regarding their range extended electric vehicle protege, the Chevrolet Volt. At this point it's very important to remember that this is not a recall, there's no NHTSA order and that GM are very careful with the press release. For what it's worth, the company isn't exactly changing anything about the...
Even the New York Auto Show is just around the corner with the debut set for April, the Americans from GMC decided to unveil the 2013 Terrain, a crossover model which will go on sale later this year. Under the bonnet we will find a new 3.6-liter V6 engine delivering 301 horsepower and 369 Nm of torque. The engine in...
The Australians from Holden revealed the 2012 Colorado pickup truck, a model better-known as Chevrolet Colorado in the States. The company also unveiled a concept version of the car at the Melbourne Auto Show in 2011. Under the bonnet of the new Colorado sits a base 2.5-liter DOHC turbo diesel unit developing 148 horses. A more powerful 2.8-liter four-cylinder unit...
Even Holden released no official pricing or availability details, some Australian dealers claim that the upcoming Holden Volt will get a starting price of over AU$60,000. There is a major difference between the price of the U.S.-spec Chevrolet Volt which starts from $39,645 and its Australian brother which might be even AU$30,000 more expensive. There should not be such a...
GM is getting busy just before the Christmas holidays and they've recently announced what their plans for the 2014 Chevrolet Impala. Long gone is the time when the Impala nameplate used to mean something for Chevrolet and General Motors. All that's left is a fleet market average car. It seems like both companies plan to make quite the difference in...
Though not as often as many would like to see it happen, the automotive industry has a few occasions when it is very generous. The guys over at GM will be handing over a special car off to charity. Destined to help quite a lot of people in the process, the vehicle in question is a custom built version of...
The Port Melbourne-based manufacturer released today new details about the 2012 model year Commodore, a model which receives only few upgrades, a clear clue that the engineers at Holden are focusing more on the next generation of the model, also known as VF. While we will have to wait few more years to see the new model on the roads,...
The American automotive group announced that a new partnership have been signed recently with LG, the companies following to develop together the technology for future electric vehicles. According to the first details, the first models to get electric versions could be the current Opel Meriva and Chevrolet Cruze, this partnership helping the American company to develop the technology easier thanks...
The Americans from General Motors proudly announced that they just outsold the rivals from Toyota taking the lead of the automotive world. The first six months of this year brought GM increased sales which helped the company became the world's biggest automaker with 4,536 million units sold between January 1st and June 30th. Comparing to the same period of 2010,...
General Motors announced the introduction of a new application able to help all the customers shop, research and configure a GMC vehicle directly from their smartphones. According to the American company, one of two smartphone owners are using the device for shopping, therefore, creating a dedicated application represents nothing but a good opportunity to increase the sales and provide a...
General Motors announced its plans to increase the production of the current Chevrolet Volt, a model that received a positive feedback since its debut. The big demand for the American plug-in hybrid determined GM to take immediate decisions regarding the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly factory which currently struggles to handle the demand. According to the official statements, starting next year, the Detroit-Hamtramck...
One of the really weird decisions from General Motors' restructuring was the keeping alive of the truck oriented brand that is GMC. Suddenly, part of the thoughts behind that decision came to light as GM's president of North America, Mark Reuss revealed the General's master plan for them. It seems that future plans for GMC involves seeing the brand move...
People at General Motors must really not care very much about weekends and such as the tirelessly work through pushing papers. Happily for us, we've been notified on exactly what papers they may be pushing while others are still in bed and to environmentalists it may mean quite a lot. The GM legal suit just announced their success in trademarking...
Feeling like the Chevrolet Volt has captured the public's attention lately, GM came up with a new scheme to get some extra media coverage. Since there isn't really that much going for it, the focus fell onto the fuel economy and range the Volt can manage. A few simple calculations lead to some mildly impressive results, it seems that the...
I remember how a few years back I started laughing at the idea of how GM were re-branding Daewoo products into Chevrolet ones. This didn't seem to clash with the idea at General Motors and the Americans keep on hitting it home with the name change. And in reading the latest announcement we've reached a simple conclusion, it is now...
The Americans from General Motors teamed up with the people from Powermat in order to build an in-car system able to wirelessly charge your mobile phone. GM already announced that the new Chevrolet Volt will be the first model within the range to benefit from the new system but don't worry because the giant company will introduce this system on...
The Americans from General Motors got a good reason to celebrate as they managed to sell about 2,35 million units in China in 2010, setting a record and for the first time the U.S. market being defetead in the sales ranking by China. Thus, China became the biggest automotive market for GM in 2010 and this growing trend might continue...
Let's be honest about this, even though we've just started a new year, the economic crisis is still shadowing us. With times like these on hand it's inevitable that GM can't afford to waste money. The Cadillac SRX Turbo never really sold enough cars to make it worth while so it's now being killed off. The prospect of rising fuel...
The Americans from General Motors are forced by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall several models due to some problems that might affect the passangers in a way or another. The first model to suffer from this recall is the sedan Cadillac CTS, manufactured betwen 2005 and 2007. The problem is that due to high usage the...
Leaving away some of the title opulence, General Motors isn't going to sail off to China for EV considerations but they have revealed a new concept on the matter. Probably aimed at China, what we have here is the GM Sail EV Concept. It looks rather well, but then again, most concepts do so let's see what's going on underneath...
