For every engineering stroke of genius out there, there are a million duds – projects that someone slaved over in good faith, only to realize that someone else had already come to market with a superior and/or more viable alternative. Both the electronic and automotive industries are awash with tales of second-place finishes in […]
General Motors has just announced the hauling capacities for the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD pickups. The new trucks can now pull up to 21,700 pounds in fifth-wheel configuration and lug around 6,635 pounds worth of payload, thereby making them the new best-in class champions. The traditional tow rating sits […]
The thought of holding a vehicle launch drive for a new Buick sedan at Germany’s Nürburgring race track would have been considered utterly absurd 18 months ago to just about anyone except Jim Federico. Federico is General Motors’ vehicle line executive for its global mid-size car platform code-named Epsilon II. In those late pre-bankruptcy days, […]
General Motors may be giving the Chevrolet Cruze a once-over before the car debuts here in the States. According to Paul Tan, the sedan is getting a few upgrades ahead of American consumers getting a crack at the company’s new compact fighter. The majority of the changes seem to be geared towards making the car […]
The Chevrolet Corvette is a uniquely American invention. It’s the quintessential sportscar from the land that brought us baseball and apple pie. Interesting, then, that General Motors would choose to seek out design studies from its various styling studios from all around the globe, particularly those in Europe.
According to AutoWeek, though, that’s just what GM’s […]
In case you missed the memos that have been circulating around product planning offices in Tokyo, Detroit, Wolfsburg and Seoul, the midsize crossover utility vehicle (CUV) segment is officially on fire. It is so hot, even the General decided its ice-cold “professional-grade” division needs a piece of the action.
GMC vehicles have traditionally been tweaked variants […]
In Europe, the humble station wagon holds a big-time slice of the family driver demographic, partly because ridiculous petrol prices make big SUVs and crossovers far too uneconomical. Americans, on the other hand, have a fundamental problem with the station wagon. We’re not sure if the wagon is uncool because it was our parents’ preferred […]
