General Motors 2013 Sales Reach One Million Cars in China
23 Apr 2013, 09:40 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors sold its one millionth vehicle in China on Monday, the Detroit-based automotive corporation announced yesterday, thus achieving a new benchmark on the world’s largest market. ...
GM China Could Export Chinese-Built Cars to US
22 Apr 2013, 08:46 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors China could export some of its Chinese-built vehicle to the United States in the near future, company president Bob Socia unveiled at the 2013 Shanghai Motor Show. "It could v...
General Motors Outsold Volkswagen in First Quarter 2013
19 Apr 2013, 08:42 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / US company General Motors outsold German manufacturer Volkswagen in the first quarter of 2013 with a slight margin of around 90,000 vehicles. Both brands released their first quarter sale figure thi...
New Chevrolet and GMC Mid-Size Trucks Coming in 2014
17 Apr 2013, 09:37 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors is set to introduce its all-new mid-size pickup trucks to the US market in 2014, GM North America President Mark Reuss revealed Tuesday. Speaking at the Dawda Mann anunual Automoti...
Chevrolet Posts Record Quarter Sales... for the 10th Consecutive Time
16 Apr 2013, 15:42 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / US automaker Chevrolet announced its 10th consecutive quarter of record global sales reporting 1.18 million vehicles sold worldwide in the first quarter of 2013. The “Bow-Tie” company...
Ford, GM Join Forces to Develop 9- and 10-Speed Transmissions
15 Apr 2013, 13:52 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Detroit rival automakers Ford and General Motors have signed an agreement to jointly develop an all-new generation of nine and ten-speed automatic transmissions for cars, crossovers, SUVs and trucks...
Japan-US Free-Trade Agreement Upsets Detroit's "Big Three"
13 Apr 2013, 11:12 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The US and Japanese governments have reached an agreement to phase out trade tariffs affecting car and truck imports, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Friday, April 12. The agreeme...
GM Stock Worth $621 Million Sold by US Treasury
11 Apr 2013, 15:58 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The US government has sold another piece of its stake in General Motors last month, reporting to Congress that it had received about $620.9 million in proceeds. In February, the US Treasury sold $48...
General Motors Returns to Facebook After Embarrassing Split
11 Apr 2013, 09:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors is now friends with Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg likes this. Ford chuckles. Eleven months after deciding to split with Facebook over “ineffectiv ads”, General Motors has r...
GM to Invest €4 Billion in Ailing Opel Division
11 Apr 2013, 08:07 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced plans to invest €4 billion ($5.23 billion) in its Opel subsidiary over the next four years, stating that the German brand “has GM’s full support”....
Holden to Cut 500 Jobs
9 Apr 2013, 14:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Holden will axe 500 jobs from two of its Australian plants as the company tries to adjust to the high dollar and fierce competition from foreign rivals. After laying off 170 employees just five m...
GM Plans South Korea Exit Due to North Korea Tensions
5 Apr 2013, 11:52 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors could halt South Korean operations and move production to another country if tensions with neighboring North Korea should escalate further. "We are making contingency plans fo...
General Motors Trademarks Chevelle Name
5 Apr 2013, 07:58 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Rumors that General Motors could resurrect the famous Chevelle name on a new vehicle have been around for a while now, and the latest news coming from GM Authority says this might actually happen. ...
GM Spends $332M to Build New Engines, Efficent Gearboxes
4 Apr 2013, 16:15 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced plans to invest $331.8 million to build two new engines and a range of efficient transmission by 2016. The new investments will go into four plants, but the biggest c...
New 2014 Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra Details Revealed
4 Apr 2013, 09:18 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The all-new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra twins have been revealed yesterday, with General Motors bragging about its V8-powered versions being more fuel efficient than Ford's EcoBoost...
GM Reports Record Sales in China
3 Apr 2013, 16:04 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has reached all-time record sales in China during March and the first quarter of 2013, the Detroit, Michigan-based company announced today. GM's sales in the world's larg...
GM Recalls 2013 Buicks, Cadillacs Over Transmission Software Issue
20 Mar 2013, 15:23 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors is recalling 33,700 model-year 2013 Buicks and Cadillacs to fix a potential software problem that may cause the transmission to unexpectedly shift into sport mode. While the issue ...
GM to Downsize Engines for Chevrolet Volt and Cadillac ELR
18 Mar 2013, 09:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / To keep up with the increasing development and production of economical cars around the world, General Motors is thinking to fit a smaller three-cylinder engine to its Chevrolet Volt an Cadillac ELR...
US Treasury Sold $489.9 Million of GM Stock
13 Mar 2013, 10:56 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The US Treasury has taken another step to rid the Government of General Motors stock by selling at least 17.2 million of Detroit's shares, worth $489.9 million, in February. According to Det...
GM to Debut Five New Cars in New York
6 Mar 2013, 16:58 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors will showcase five world premieres and one North American debut at this month's New York Auto Show. According to Just-auto.com, General Motors has confirmed the introduction o...