Buy a Chevy: Don’t Like It? Return Your Chevy
Now with a money-back guarantee! Just as General Motors exited bankruptcy, it rolled out a new campaign called “Let the Best Car Win.” Part of the promotion included a 60-day return policy, wherein a...
View ArticleCars Coming Soon: Chevy’s Onslaught of 13 New Vehicles for 2013
Hold on to your bowties, because Chevrolet is about to unleash some insanity. Well, maybe. Using the words “insanity” and Impala or Malibu in the same sentence might not make much sense, but I think...
View Article2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra Unveiled
General Motors has turned into a big tease. It seems like it’s enjoying the slow, painful reveal of the C7 Corvette a little too much, with not so much as a carefully orchestrated “leak” of...
View ArticleThe Next Wi-Fi Hot Spot: Your Car
I’ve recently been introduced to Sons of Anarchy, and since that day, my Netflix subscription and I have happily spent a lot of time together. I admit, I’m addicted to the show and kind of wish I...
View ArticleThe Cadillac Comeback Gets Under Way
Think back to the year 2000, if you will. Panic about the impending clock change had just passed, Pepsi Twist was the hot new soda, “Gladiator” was the big blockbuster, and nobody bought Cadillacs....
View ArticleYour Next Radio Station Change, Brought to You by Allstate?
Inside my car is about the only place left where I can find complete solitude and turn off the outside world if choose. I can either play my Korn albums as loud as I want, listen to NPR if I choose or...
View ArticleOld GM Factory Site to Become Car Condos and a Racetrack
Now here’s some creative thinking on a way to revitalize one of Michigan’s saddest relics of automotive history. An 80-acre tract of land currently lies vacant in Pontiac, after once housing 4 GM...
View ArticlePretty Convincing: GM Makes Remote Start Standard
Automakers want to convince us all that buying a new car is preferable to buying used. Dealers just hope you buy a car—new would be nice, but there’s good money to be made selling used ones, too....
View ArticleGoing CPO? Look to GM!
There are two ways of looking at Certified Pre-Owned cars: As overpriced used cars As value-priced new-car alternatives Yes, buying a CPO vehicle will cost more than buying an as-is used car from a...
View ArticleGM’s New Behemoths: Can the Tahoe, Yukon and Suburban Win Buyers?
People just don’t buy giant SUVs anymore. The old body-on-frame people-movers have been replaced by car-based crossovers and miniature versions of the big utes that used to rule American roads. It’s...
View ArticleThe Worst Idea of 2014
We’re only 8 days into the new year, and already they worst idea of the year has surfaced. This idea will surely outlast all other bad automotive ideas to come during the remaining 357 days of this...
View ArticleChevrolet Wants to Be More Like Ford
2015 Ford F-150 Talk about being ahead of its time. There’s nothing better for a company than introducing a new product so revolutionary that your closest competitor can’t touch it for about 4 years....
View ArticleRusty Undercarriage? Don’t Blame the Carmaker
Don’t let this happen to your car Bad things happen when brake lines leak. Who’s to blame when they do? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has wrapped up a 5-year investigation into the...
View ArticleAluminum: Best for Beer Cans or Trucks?
Did it collapse like a beer can? News of Ford’s use of aluminum in the body of the new F-150 shook the auto world in 2014. Some saw it as a revolutionary step in the evolution of the pickup truck,...
View ArticleGM Easily Wins Battle of the Big SUVs
Take a guess on how much money General Motors makes every time it sells a Tahoe. I’m not going to tell you yet, but I will say that knowing might change how you negotiate for the biggest of the big...
View ArticleGM and Toyota Dive Deeper Into Car Sharing
How would you like to rent a car in less than a second? The idea of instant access to a vehicle could be appealing, especially for people who don’t own a car and live in a big city. General Motors and...
View ArticleGM to Halt Car Production, Including Camaro and Corvette
Camaro going out of production… temporarily. General Motors has a problem with crossovers. The high-riding family-friendly vehicles have effectively kicked their sedan brethren out of production. Quite...
View ArticleGM Heads Back to Basics—Sells Opel, Vauxhall to the French
Peugeot CEO, Carlos Tavares, shakes hands with GM CEO, Mary Barra When quality standards appeared to slip for Subaru, we asked if perhaps the small but rapidly growing Japanese brand was threatening to...
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