GM CEO to Testify Before US House on Ignition Switch Recall
21 Mar 2014, 16:38 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors CEO Mary Barra will testify before the US House Committee about the manufacturer's handling of its ignition switch recall. The hearing is set for April 1. Mary Barra will be j...
Chevrolet Launches Special Edition Spark Dot in Mexico
20 Mar 2014, 15:25 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Although it has been nominated among the worst subcompact cars of 2014 by Consumer Reports, the Chevrolet Spark remains very popular in many markets, including Mexico. And to celebrate the small ...
2014 Cadillac CTS Coming to China Next Quarter
20 Mar 2014, 14:36 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2014 Cadillac CTS luxury sedan will go on sale in China, the world’s largest automotive market, in the second quarter of the year, the US-based automaker revealed earlier this week. Rev...
GM CEO Says Recalled Cars Are “Safe to Drive”
20 Mar 2014, 10:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / GM’s ignition switch-related recall, which was linked to 13 deaths so far (a recent study claims 303 have been killed), is the hot topic this spring, with the manufacturer being subjected to m...
GM Announces New EcoTec Engine Lineup
19 Mar 2014, 14:57 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced a new generation of small displacement, EcoTec engines that will be powering its upcoming global vehicles. The new EcoTec lineup will consists of 11 engines and will ...
General Motors Appoints New Vehicle Safety Chief
18 Mar 2014, 16:08 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / With a huge recall linked to at least 13 deaths on its hand, General Motors is upping the ante toward convincing customers that the manufacturer values the safety of its vehicles more than anything ...
GM Announces New 1.5-million Vehicle Recall
17 Mar 2014, 16:53 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced a voluntary recall involving about 1.5 million SUVs, vans and sedans. The automaker says the new call back is the result of Mary Barra’s request for an internal sa...
GM Builds $30-million Reduced-scale Wind Tunnel
17 Mar 2014, 10:53 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced it has started building a new reduced-scale wind tunnel at its Warren Technical Center in Michigan. The new facility will require a $30-million investment and will expan...
GM's Ignition Switch Recall Allegedly Linked to 303 Deaths
15 Mar 2014, 09:18 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / A study conducted by Fredman Research Corporation and commissioned by the Center for Auto Safety, a private watchdog group in Washington, claims that GM's recent ignition switch-related recall ...
GM Offering $500 Discount to Owners of Recalled Cars
13 Mar 2014, 12:56 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced it will offer a $500 discount toward the purchase or lease of a new car to each of the 1.3 million American owners affected by the recent ignition switch-related recall....
US House Committee Announces Investigation into GM Ignition Switch Recall
12 Mar 2014, 13:07 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton announced that the committee has opened an investigation into GM’s ignition switch recall, which has been linked to 31 crashes and 13 fa...
GM Ignition Switch Recall: NHTSA Issues 27-page Order
7 Mar 2014, 13:04 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors is in big big trouble! No, they’re not headed for bankruptcy again, but they have a lot of questions to answer in regard to their huge ignition switch-related vehicle recall. 10...
General Motors US Sales Down One Percent Last Month
4 Mar 2014, 10:46 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced it has delivered 222,104 vehicles in the United States last month, meaning that total sales were down one percent compared to February 2013, but up 30 percent over Janua...
National Corvette Museum Begins Extracting Sinkhole-damaged Cars
3 Mar 2014, 10:04 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The National Corvette Museum (NCM) has announced it will begin extracting the sinkhole-damaged Corvette sportscars beginning today, when the first car, the 2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil”, will be...
GM Facing NHTSA Investigation, Fine of up to $35 Million
28 Feb 2014, 15:31 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it has opened an investigation into the timeliness of GM’s recent ignition switch recall on about 1.36 million Chevrolet, Pontiac a...
Chevrolet to Offer “Unprecedented” Discounts on 2014 Silverado Trucks in March
28 Feb 2014, 13:11 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Chevrolet will run a national Truck Month promotion offering supplier pricing on all 2014 Silverado pickup truck models. According to Automotive News, quoting a summary of the plan sent to dealers t...
GM Says 2014 Silverado, GMC Sierra Software Glitch Is “Inconsequential”
27 Feb 2014, 13:28 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / With more than 1.3 million vehicles sold for the 2003-2007 model years already in line for a faulty ignition switch recall, General Motors is trying to avoid a new call back for about 200,000 units ...
GM Announces RemoteLink App for Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch
27 Feb 2014, 09:54 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / It’s been four days since Samsung unveiled its brand new Gear 2 smartwatch, and General Motors has announced that it has already created a version of its RemoteLink smartphone app for the new ...
Livernois Tunes the 2014 Chevy SS, 2014 Cadillac XTS Vsport
26 Feb 2014, 12:57 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Earlier this month Livernois Motorsports & Engineering has introduced the 93 Octane Performance tuning program for the 2014 Chevrolet SS and the 2014 Cadillac XTS VSport. With help from the $...
2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 "Flying Car" Logic Explained
25 Feb 2014, 15:47 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Earlier this month we learned that the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 is able to “quickly lap the most challenging road courses” thanks to no less than 28 features and three key areas that w...