October 17th, 2009 
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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising , Buick , Cadillac , Chevrolet , GM , GMC , Earnings/Financials According to the number-crunchers over at Edmunds.com, things are looking up for General Motors in the month of October. If preliminary figures hold up, The General’s market share should come in at 22.4 percent, a notable gain from the 19.1 percent share the automaker averaged throughout the third quarter of 2009. Driving this newfound… Read the rest
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Filed under: Aftermarket , Coupe , Performance , Lamborghini Lamborghini Murcielago LP 640 JB-R by JB Car Design - Click above for high-res image gallery The Lamborghini Murcielago may be getting old, but the raging bull still has some fight left in it. Some figure it just needs a little encouragement. Like JB Design. The German tuning house has released a comprehensive tuning package for the LP-640 that leaves… Read the rest
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Filed under: Car Buying , Europe , Ford , Earnings/Financials 2010 Ford Fiesta (Euro-Spec) - Click above for high-res gallery New products, improved quality and a surge in public perception have helped Ford buttress its sales numbers here in the U.S. , but the Dearborn-based automaker also has a good story to tell across the Pond. According to The Detroit News , Ford managed to grab 10.1% of Europe’s… Read the rest
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Filed under: Concept Cars , Hybrid , Wagon , Tokyo Motor Show , Crossover , Subaru Subaru Hybrid Tourer Concept - click above for high-res image gallery Subaru has just released a bunch of new images of its Hybrid Tourer concept that is slated to debut next week at the Tokyo Motor Show . The gullwing wagon/hatch/thingy is Subaru’s first major cut at a hybrid and the first from… Read the rest
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Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing , GM General Motors has announced its planned production for next year: 2.8 million vehicles. That’s a 45% increase over its production this year - 1.9 million cars and trucks - and according to some analysts, it’s completely unwarranted. GM says it arrived at that number based on “real simple math.” Analysts quoted in the Detroit Free Press today appear believe that GM was guided more… Read the rest
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Filed under: Chevrolet , GM Forget about more cowbell, for GM it’s all about more Chevy — at least, that’s the situation for Chevrolet’s new VP Brent Dewar. So far this year the Bowtie has posted more than 60% of GM’s North American volume, but Dewar wants that to get to 70%. “As Pontiac goes away, Saturn goes away,” Dewar said, “Chevrolet has to step up. The 70 percent… Read the rest
Posted in Car News Tags: arnold worldwide, brent dewar, brentdewar, chevrolet, chevrolet cruze, chevy, chrysler lancia, commercials, general motors, generalmotors, marketing, opel, saab, volt No Comments » October 2nd, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Etc. , Marketing/Advertising , Saturn , Earnings/Financials , Humor Click above to view the video after the jump When the deal to sell Saturn to Penske Automotive fell through , there were likely a lot of surprised people at General Motors’ Detroit, MI headquarters. Penske released a statement saying that the reason the deal fell through after months of good faith negotiations was that a suitable post-GM… Read the rest
October 1st, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Motorcycle 2010 Triumph Rocket III Roadster - Click above for high-res image gallery Just in case the original Triumph Rocket III and its 2.3-liter inline triple engine wasn’t quite bonkers enough for you, the British motorcycle manufacturer has just announced it’s upping the power of its awe-inspiring mill for the 2010 model year. The 165 lb-ft of torque represents a 15% improvement over the 2009 model, and… Read the rest
October 1st, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Crossover , GM , GMC 2010 GMC Terrain - Click above for high-res image gallery The GMC Terrain is just coming to market, but some have speculated that a diesel variant could be on the way to trump the crossover’s already impressive 32 mpg highway figure. Well that’s just not going to happen, according to Buick GMC boss Susan Docherty. Last month, GMC Communications Group Manager Dayna… Read the rest
September 23rd, 2009 admin 
Filed under: SUV , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Hummer 2008 Hummer HX concept - click above image for hi-res gallery With General Motors selling its Hummer operations to China’s Tengzhong, there had been some concern that the embattled state of Michigan would lose even more jobs if the SUV brand’s home base would move either overseas or out of state. But according to Reuters , that doesn’t look like it’s going… Read the rest
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