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October 2012 proved to be a good month for the folks at General Motors, with all four of their current brands showing positive growth while the company as a whole led the US market in sales volume with 195,674 vehicles sold last month.

For those who are concerned about "foreign oil," and "oil Subsidies'" but in need of a heavy duty pickup, salvation has arrived

General Motors was one of the weakest auto companies in the US market in September 2012 with a year over year growth of just 1.5% but that slight increase allowed them to beat cross-town rival Ford Motor Company en route to once again being the bestselling automaker in the US by a pretty comfortable margin.

Costco Auto Program members are now eligible for discounts on 12 different GM models including the Chevy Cruze, Buick Verano and GMC Acadia.

General Motors announced last night that the Buick and GMC brands would be receiving nine new models in their lineup over the next 12 months with some of the most popular vehicles in those two brands getting a refresh – including the Buick Regal, the Buick LaCrosse, the GMC Sierra and the GMC Yukon.

Last week the Rocky Mountain Automotive Press hosted their first annual 4XFall event, providing the opportunity to test the performance of the highly upgraded 2013 GMC Terrain Denali and Acadia Denali offroad in the historic Gold Rush site of Caribou CO.

The re-designed and re-appointed 3-row, full-sized SUV gets priced in both its base level and high-end Denali trims. New standard features also detailed.

The sales results are in for August 2012 and for the folks at General Motors, it was a good month with all four of their existing brands showing positive growth – helping the largest of the Detroit Big 3 to beat out Nissan and BMW in terms of year over year growth.

The massive Sierra fleet was unveiled ahead of tonight's game between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys.

Many brands build their marketing position on a tough off-road look and capabilities that are absolutely absurd. GM's Terrain recently got a workout in Colorado and it proves AWD is really all anyone needs.

General Motors reported a year over year decline in sales of 6.4% but the company points out that the decline is due in large to the decline in sales to rental car companies and other large fleets while retail sales only declined by about 3% in July 2012.

June 2012 was good for the folks at General Motors as all four of their brands showed positive growth compared to the same month in 2011 but June was best for Buick – which posted an increase of almost 27%.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced that they have upgraded their preliminary investigation of the 2006 and 2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer to an engineering analysis while also adding the GMC, Buick, Saab and Isuzu, a move which could lead to a recall of 341,786 vehicles in the US.

General Motors bounced back from a shaky April to post an 11% gain in May 2012 compared to the year before but things weren’t all upsides for GM as Cadillac continued to struggle.

Trailer anti-sway is standard on the 2013 GMC Terrain and Acadia helping to hook up former drivers of full size sport utility vehicles.

There were only 24 selling days for American dealerships in April 2012 compared to 27 days in April 2011 – a difference that caused a noticeable drop in sales figures for General Motors but when you look at the daily sales rate, GM was actually on a better pace in April 2012 than they were one year ago.

Customers looking to use a domestic source of fuel for their pickups and to lower emission, now have a new choice

For the folks at General Motors, sales were pretty strong in March 2012 with an increase of 11.8% but with Cadillac and Buick both showing significant year over year declines in growth – things aren’t going as smoothly as CEO Dan Akerson would prefer as the first quarter of 2012 comes to an end.

Beginning tomorrow, General Motors will begin notifying owners of select GMC and Chevrolet full sized vans and sport utility vehicles over a concern that a vital component of the steering system could fail – leaving the vehicle uncontrollable in the event that the part should fail at speeds.

Special models like the 2012 GMC Yukon and Sierra Heritage Editions will commemorate 100 years of the GMC name, which just so happens to coincide with the 2012 New York Auto Show that reflects back to 1912.

General Motors (GM) is hoping to save around $2 billion dollars over the next 5 years. This isn't on manufacturing, labor, materials, or productions costs but on what most automakers see as necessity to sell cars, advertising.

GM is touting the fact that its General Motor Spring Hill powertrain plant produced its 3-millionth Ecotec engine this week but the bigger story is really the fact that is has produced 1 million of the engines in the last 30 months alone.

In an effort to expand the popularity of the GMC Terrain Denali, GM has repeated its engine switcheroo, pulled out the popular 3.6 liter V6, and made it available on a more upscale version.

February 2012 was a tough month for General Motors, with the largest of the American automakers ranking last in terms year over year growth but the good news was that with an improvement of 1.1%, the company still showed a positive growth in what proved to be a fairly bad month.

With its "Professional-Grade Engineering" motto in mind, GMC has just unveiled its redesigned 2013 Acadia at the 2012 Chicago Auto Show

January 2012 was a good month for the majority of the automaker groups operating in the United States but unfortunately – General Motors was the one company who struggled in the first month of the New Year with a negative year over year growth of 6.1%.

General Motors finished the year with a December that showed overall growth by the company and the claim of being the top selling automaker in the US even though three of the four existing brands saw negative growth in the last month of 2011.

Each year, auto plants around the United States deal with planned downtime as various maintenance and retooling tasks are handled and as 2012 nears, General Motors has announced planned downtime for their three American truck plants in Michigan, Texas and Indiana – with a total of 21 weeks of downtime across the three facilities.

(TorqueNews) Continuing a growth spurt, General Motors Co. has unveiled plans to spend $68 million on a Canadian manufacturing facility to produce the new Chevrolet Impala. The Chevy Impala will be the fifth new GM product that will be built in Canada since 2009.