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Sidebar: You Can’t Fight City Hall; Is the Volt Worth It?

By on August 2, 2011 in Reviews

By Kevin Miller

From an engineering perspective, Chevrolet’s Volt is a technological tour de force that both highlights GM’s commitment to technology, and their engineering muscle as a global organization. It is able to travel around 35 miles on full charge, and nearly 300 more using its onboard ICE “range extender” to make electricity.  While our Editor-in-Chief separately spent five days in another Chevrolet Volt, I had two days in one in which I was able to experience some of the ups and downs of EV ownership.

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Review: 2011 Chevrolet Volt

By on August 2, 2011 in Reviews

By Chris Haak

Back in the sixties – a decade which, scary enough, began more than a half century ago – the creators of the cartoon The Jetsons imagined a future world in which robots served humans, there were pushbutton conveniences that automated mundane tasks, and the cars could fly (and fold into a space the size of a briefcase).

We’re now halfway to 2062 when The Jetsons was allegedly taking shape, and we certainly do have many automated conveniences, but we seem to be barely any closer to all having flying cars.  People living in 2062 also only have to work three hours per day; it seems that we’re trending in the opposite direction from that.  However, I really do believe that the Chevrolet Volt is about as close as you can get to driving (ahem, *not* flying) the car of the future.

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Review: 2011 GMC Sierra Denali 2500 4WD

By on July 9, 2011 in Reviews

By Chris Haak

Lots of people drive heavy duty pickups.  Many contractors, businesses, and folks who have to do a lot of towing flock to these brutes because they are among the most capable vehicles on the planet as far as towing and hauling while still moving a family of five – at least among vehicles that don’t require a CDL to operate on public roads.

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Chevrolet To Bring Aveo RS To Production As Sonic RS

By on June 21, 2011 in News

By Carl Malek

General Motors once had plans to bring the upcoming Sonic small car to the market as the next-generation Aveo. However, after extensive evaluation, and perhaps looking back at the Aveo’s rather tepid sales numbers, GM reconsidered. The company decided that the name was not worth reusing and shelved it in favor of Sonic. However one problem arose from this decision, and that was the fate of the performance version of the Sonic. General Motors had already unveiled the Aveo RS concept at the 2010 North American International Autoshow, but would then not mention the fate of the performance variant after the switch from Aveo to Sonic was made. Since that time, many in the automotive world speculated that the Aveo RS would survive the name change and go into production as the Sonic RS but no official word or confimration had been released.

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Review: 2011 Chevrolet Suburban LTZ 4×4

By on June 17, 2011 in Reviews

By Chris Haak

I was in Boy Scouts when I was a kid.  We had our meetings each Tuesday night at a local gun club, since they were my troop’s sponsoring organization.  Aside from parental motivation and self-motivation to succeed at earning my Eagle Scout award, perhaps another factor was the Chevrolet Suburban.

You see, one of the perks of attending Boy Scout meetings at a gun club off the beaten path rather than in the basement of a church in some town is that there was a half mile long stone-covered lane to get to the clubhouse where the meetings were held.  All of the fathers in my Boy Scout troop allowed their sons to pilot their cars from the road to the clubhouse, then the other direction after the meeting’s conclusion, once we turned 14.

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2012 Corvette To See Price Increase Across the Board

By on June 15, 2011 in News

By Carl Malek

The Chevrolet Corvette has been having a hard time getting sales as of late. Thanks in part to an outdated chassis, the global economic meltdown, and the appearance of the Chevrolet Camaro, the mighty two door sports car saw its sales plummet to a 50 year low.  Despite this alarming drop in sales, General Motors has revealed plans to increase the price for consumers looking to purchase a Corvette for their garage.  According to the folks over at Corvette Blogger, the price hikes General Motors has planned for the Corvette lineup can range from $480 to $1.150 depending on the model you choose. The only model to see its price tag actually decrease for 2012 is the top of the line ZR1 model – but only by a mere $75.

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Camaro ZL1 To Offer Auto Transmission, Have More Horsepower Than CTS-V

By on June 13, 2011 in News

By Carl Malek

Earlier this year, Chevrolet chose the 2011 Chicago Autoshow as the backdrop to unveil the 2012 Camaro ZL1 supercar. Designed as the range-topping model in the Camaro family, the ZL1 was created to take on the best from Ford and Shelby. Despite these initial statements, Chevrolet remained silent on the exact details of the car except for stating that the car would have at least 550 horsepower and a six speed manual gearbox.  However in a statement at an event at the Camaro plant in Oshawa Ontario, Al Oppenheiser, director of concept and vehicle integration for GM’s Performance division, has revealed new information and details about what potential buyers can expect from this potent Camaro.

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Do Ford’s High Fleet Sales Make the Tundra Look Bad?

By on June 13, 2011 in News

By Chris Haak

Last Friday, I received a comment on our article that asked “What happened to the Tundra?” from Jason Lancaster, administrator of TundraHeadquarters.com that prompted me to take a closer look at whether I was missing an angle in my high-level annual sales analysis of the full-size pickup market from 2007 through 2010.  In the original article, I noted that Ford has been eating everyone else’s lunch, and that Toyota in particular has taken it on the chin.  Jason’s contention is that I painted with too broad of a brush when drawing my conclusions about the Tundra (which, by the way, I never said was a failure; I just want to know what happened to it).

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What Happened to the Tundra?

By on June 6, 2011 in Editorials

By Chris Haak

Way back in the 2007 model year, you may recall that things looked quite different in the auto industry. Neither GM nor Chrysler had declared bankruptcy; GM was still the world’s largest automaker. Ford had just bet the company that its latest restructuring would fix their problem once and for all. Toyota was on a seemingly unstoppable roll, with month upon month of increasing sales (often at a clip of 10 percent over the year-earlier period).

There were certainly storm clouds on the horizon for the Detroit Three. GM, Ford, and Chrysler were losing money, the credit markets were drying up, and there was a major threat brewing against the last bastion of US automakers: the full-size pickup.

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Report: C7 Corvette May Get Small Overhead Cam, Turbo V8

By on May 26, 2011 in News

By Chris Haak

TheDetroitBureau.com dropped a few bombshells yesterday about the C7 Corvette, which is scheduled to hit the market in two years.  News has been fairly silent on the Corvette front for the past few years, with long periods of no news followed by a rumor here and there.  The rumor of a mid-engine C7 comes up (just as there were rumors of a mid-engine C4, C5, and C6), and word leaked out that the debut of GM’s Generation V small-block V8 would occur with the next-generation Corvette.  The Gen V small block would displace about 5.5 liters, but would include additional technology such as direct injection to get its output figures similar to today’s 430-horsepower base engine, while moving what is theoretically a smaller, lighter car.

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