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Spied: 2011 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible… in Australia
The last time the 2011 Chevrolet Camaro was spied, it was outside the car’s production facility in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. These latest spy shots come from the other side of the world. GMInsideNews forum member isszy captured two photos of eight of the drop-top Camaros at a Holden facility in Fisherman’s Bend, Australia. The Camaro…
Report: C7 Corvette Due Out in 2012
Earlier this week GM laid out it’s two-year-plan at a product and technology event, with the focus being on new Buick and Cadillac models and, of course, the 230 mpg claim for the Chevrolet Volt. But there was another tid-bit of info in that two-year-plan on another highly-anticipated Chevy… the C7 Corvette. Initially the next…
Report: Chevrolet Volt to Get 230 MPG
Chevrolet’s upcoming Volt plug-in hybrid will get 230 miles per gallon according to General Motors. The astonishingly high number comes as the result of new EPA methods for testing fuel mileage for PHEVs. GM made the announcement today as a part of a product and technology event held at the company’s Design Center and Milford Proving…
Breaking: Future General Motors Product Plans Tweeted
If you’re a car junkie, Twitter is the place to be today. Ahead of a webcast tomorrow morning by GM CEO Fritz Henderson, the General arranged for a select few media to meet with its PR folks and get a preview of what the New GM has to offer. Many of those folks have been…
Report: Upcoming Chevy Orlando May Get Voltec Plug-in Hybrid System
GM’s new communications boss has confirmed that the automaker is looking at equipping the upcoming Orlando MPV with a plug-in hybrid system similar to the one used in the Chevy Volt. Jon Lauckner, VP of global program management at GM hinted at this earlier this year and now Lutz is being more specific telling GM-Volt.com…
Official: Corvette Racing Debuts GT2-Spec C6.R
Corvette Racing today unveiled its new GT2-spec C6.R racer and invited folks to listen in on a conference call with those responsible for running the team as well as one of the drivers of the No. 3 car, Johnny O’Connell. For years Corvette Racing has ran a team of cars in the top-level GT1 category in…
Report: National Corvette Museum to Raffle Off Custom 2010 Grand Sport
To celebrate its 15th anniversary the National Corvette Museum (NCM) is holding a raffle for a new 2010 Corvette Grand Sport. Tickets aren’t cheap at $150 a pop, but with just 2,009 tickets being sold the odds of winning are pretty good. The NCM Corvette Grand Sport Coupe was custom designed by the folks at…
Report: Chevy Debuts Transformers Edition Camaro
Autobots: roll out, and now you can too with the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Transformers Special Edition. The Bumblebee inspired creation was officially introduced yesterday at a fitting venue, Comic-Con in San Diego. “When the first Transformers movie was setting box office records, we had countless customers asking to purchase the ‘Bumblebee’ Camaro,” said Karen Rafferty,…
Report: GM Launches ChevroletVoltage Social Networking Site to Help Promote Upcoming Volt
To help promote the upcoming Chevrolet Volt and provide owners and potential owners with a place to discuss the ground-breaking car, General Motors has launched a new forum called ChevroletVoltage.com. And to help kick-start interest in the forum, GM has released a video of the build process for the prototype Volt cars. The Voltage…
Report: Pontiac G8 Has No Future at New GM Says Lutz
Yesterday we urged GM CEO Fritz Henderson to sit down with his new Vice Chairman Bob Lutz to get their stories about the future of the Pontiac G8 straight. Now they have, and the news isn’t good. Bob Lutz posted on GM’s corporate Fastlane Blog that the G8 will not live on as the Chevrolet…
Report: Pontiac G8 to Live On as Chevrolet Caprice
Calling the Pontiac G8 “Too good to waste,” GM’s new product boss, Bob Lutz, has just announced that the car will live on, rebadged as a Chevrolet Caprice. The news comes as a surprise, considering GM’s CEO Fritz Henderson has been unwavering in his insistence that the car would be eliminated from the New GM. Apparently…
Chevy Silverado Out-Sells Ford F-150 in June
Tough economic times often bring about shifts in the marketplace and one such example can be found in the light-duty pickup truck market. In the month of June the Chevy Silverado out-sold the Ford F-150, but that’s not what the numbers appear to say at first. While the entire F-Series lineup (including the F-150 as…
Top Chevy Volt Engineer Says Hybrid Has the “Feel of a Sports Car”
Last week Andrew Farah, Chevrolet’s top Engineer responsible for the upcoming Volt plug-in hybrid, said that the car would be a sporty rival to Japanese alternatives. Now he is taking that claim a step further, telling Automotive News that it will have, “the feel of a sports car.” In fact, Farah doesn’t say that the…
Chevy Confirms Camaro Will Go On Sale In Europe
General Motors can barely keep up with demand for the new 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, but that won’t stop the American automaker from bringing the car to less traditional markets. According to German car magazine Auto Motor und Sport, which cites and executive at Chevrolet Germany, the Camaro will go on sale in Europe in the…
Camaro Out-Sells Mustang For First Time Since 1993
Ford has had it easy in the Pony car segment ever since 2002 when Chevrolet stopped selling the Camaro, but the iconic Chevy is back and making its presence felt. For the fist time since 1993 the Camaro out-sold the Mustang for a whole month. The numbers weren’t even close as the new Camaro sold…
Chevy Volt Will Be Sportier Than Japanese Hybrids Says Chief Engineer
The upcoming Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid will be a sporty alternative to Japanese hybrids says the car’s chief engineer. Andrew Farah let this juicy bit of info slip on a recent chat session on GM’s official FasLane blog. “Our chassis is much more sporty than either of the other vehicles,” said Farah, referring to the…
General Motors May Sell Rebadged Prius
Toyota may share a version of its Prius hybrid with General Motors according to a recent report by Bloomberg. Sources say Toyota President Akio Toyoda and GM CEO Fritz Henderson will meet in August in Michigan to discuss the possibility of selling a version GM-badged Prius – or possibly using Toyota hybrid technology to build…
First Chevy Volt Pre-Production Model Hits the Road
General Motors may still be in bankruptcy protection but that doesn’t mean work at America’s largest automaker has stopped. In fact, engineers have been hard at it, especially those working on the upcoming Chevrolet Volt. Today Chevy has released a few photos of a pre-production model of the Volt. Until now, every other version was…
2010 Corvette ZR1 Gets New Traction Control System, Launch Control
The Corvette ZR1 is already one of the best road-going machines ever made, but that hasn’t stopped the Chevy engineers from adding a few updates for the 2010 model. The main upgrade is a new traction control system that uses what Chevy calls Performance Traction Management (PTM). Essentially this works like a typical traction control…
2011 Camaro Convertible Spied in Canada
The Camaro Convertible has been an on-again, off-again model for Chevy. Officially, it is now on-again and in case you don’t believe the rumors, here are a few pics of the car sitting outside GM’s Oshawa, Canada plant – where the new Camaro is assembled. No doubt the decision to go ahead with the car…
Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger Headed to NASCAR in 2010
Forget the Fusion and Avenger, the 2010 Ford and Dodge NASCAR racers will be mean street machines and real pony cars. That’s right, the Mustang and Challenger. Both cars are expected to be closer to stock than any car in recent history, but that’ s not saying much. The move was made by the NASCAR…
Chevy Rolls Out 1.5 Millionth Corvette: A 2010 Grand Sport
Fifty-six years after the first Corvette rolled off the assembly line, General Motors can now boast it has produced 1.5 million of America’s sports car. Chevrolet Product Marketing Director Karen Rafferty made the announcement at the June meeting of the Greater Atlanta Automotive Media Association. The 1,500,000th ‘Vette, produced at the company’s Bowling Green Assembly…
Chevy Drops Hybrid Malibu From Lineup
Chevrolet has decided to cancel production of its Malibu Hybrid. As shocking as this might seem for a company that claims it is now dedicated to building environmentally-friendly cars, it actually makes a lot of sense. For starters, while the Malibu itself continues to sell well and has received critical acclaim from auto journos, the…
Buick LaCrosse Will Get Turbo 4-Cylinder
GM’s interim CEO Fritz Henderson is starting to open up on some of the company’s fuel-efficiency plans and the future involves a pair of turbocharged four-cylinders. The first turbo-four will be offered in the new Buick LaCrosse but won’t be available immediately. Currently the LaCrosse is slated to get a standard 3.0-liter V6 that makes…
