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Chevrolet

With a lineup that includes some of the bestselling cars, trucks and SUVs sold in America, Chevrolet is routinely one of the bestselling brands in the US market. A refresh to the Camaro and Malibu along with new versions of the Corvette, Silverado and Impala join forces with the likes of the Volt and the Spark EV to offer an incredible range of performance cars and super efficient models in the same showroom.

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Nissan is still struggling to meet the first 20,000 orders for their innovative 2011 Leaf electric vehicle but as the 2012 model year nears; the Japanese automaker has announced that the segment-leading Leaf will see price increases across the board.
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General Motors has just announced their newest investment – this time involving the Flint Assembly Plant in Michigan – with the company spending $328 million to support production of the next generation Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra light duty pickups.
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Amidst news of the Camaro ZL1 and the upcoming 50th anniversary of the mighty Mustang, there have been endless rumors of what is to come from Ford’s pony car but we now have new rumors (with a fair amount of support) as to what we can expect from the next installation of the Ford Mustang line.
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The Opel Ampera, the European version of the Chevrolet Volt, will be available to rent in eight different countries through the rental agency Europcar beginning next year.
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When the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 made its grand debut at the Chicago Auto Show earlier this year, we were told that the supercharged 6.2L V8 would produce somewhere in the neighborhood of 550 horsepower – causing a world of speculation in the muscle car world but according to LSX TV, the Camaro ZL1 could pack over 570 horsepower.
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The Chevrolet Volts are the first full-fledged electric automobiles to join the NYPD's fleet of 430 EVs.
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Despite Alaska's wild dangers, where a car can run out of fuel on highways, Chevrolet thought the Last Frontier state was a great place to showoff Volt’s capabilities.
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The DeTomaso brand was reincarnated at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show with the Cadillac SRX-based Deauville crossover but the sports car that the brand is best known for will seemingly make its return at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show as the new DeTomaso Pantera storms onto the supercar scene.
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An inside GM source has squeaked about the arrival of a diesel-powered Chevrolet Cruze in the US market in two years.
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Automakers are always trying to one-up the competition with various incentives and features by General Motors has announced that they will be the first company in the US to offer free auto insurance on new vehicles – but only in two states.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a recall for a concern over a faulty securing pin in the automatic transmission shift linkage in certain 2011 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups.
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The results from June 2011 have come in from around the US auto industry and for the third month in a row, the 2011 Nissan Leaf has outsold the Chevy Volt – now giving the Leaf the advantage in annual sales volume as well.
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Once again General Motors has claimed the top spot in the American auto industry with a 10.5% improvement over June 2010 allowing them to sell 215,358 vehicles in June 2011.
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The Chevrolet Camaro has led in the rear wheel drive sports car segment over the Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger and Nissan 370Z from January to May but as June 2011 sales results have trickled in – the Ford Mustang has claimed the top spot in sales for the month.
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The new Chevrolet Cruze has quickly become one of the brand’s bestselling cars – even doing so well as to lead the segment in sales last month – and now it appears as though General Motors might offer up a 2-door coupe of the popular C-segment model.
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Necessity is the mother of invention goes the old saying and the current emphasis on greening the planet and extending the mileage squeezed out of every gallon of petrol seems to be having just that consequence. The Chevrolet Cruze keeps finding ways to extract more and more from every gallon with technology like deceleration fuel cutoff (DFCO), that completely suspends fuel delivery when you brake, restoring the flow when you accelerate again.
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The Chevrolet Camaro holds the leading role among cars that can talk in the modern Transformers series and with Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon set to hit theaters on June 28th, Chevrolet has announced the newest special edition Transformers-themed Camaro for the 2012 model year.
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It’s been a great month for the Chevrolet Corvette, with the mighty ZR1 setting a new American production car record at Germany’s Nürburgring early this month and now the 2012 Corvette Z06 has set a new personal best of 7:22.68 around the world’s most well-known road course.
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UAW Local 5960 voted Wednesday in favor of a strike by workers employed by LINC Logistics, a company that provides third-party labor for General Motors at their Orion Production Facility in Michigan.
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The UAW parts supplier LINC Logistics Co. is fighting for a wage increase at GM's Orion plant in Detroit, where production of the Chevrolet Sonic subcompact will commence in August.
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The 2011 Chevrolet Camaro is the bestselling model in its class, outselling the Mustang and Challenger every month this year and this success has helped the bowtie-clad muscle car see its 5 millionth production unit roll off of the assembly line at the Oshawa Ontario production facility.
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Chevrolet has announced the starting price of the Sonic subcompact will be $14,495, as well as information about its list of options and safety features.
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The Chevrolet Cruze has quickly become one of General Motors’ bestselling models but when the 2012 Cruze models start hitting showrooms, they will offer more standard features and improved fuel economy over the current (2011) models.
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The Chevrolet Corvette has seen better days with regards to sales even with no real competition in the current American market but that’s not stopping GM from hiking the price for the 2012 model year.
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This computer, shaped and styled to look like a new Chevrolet Camaro, would make your car-loving father or grandfather the envy of the neighborhood as it can serve as a very unique Father's Day gift idea for a car loving father.
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General Motors has announced that they intend to invest $47 million in their Defiance, Ohio casting facility to prepare the plant for increased output of components of the popular 1.4L 4-cylinder Ecotec and the next generation small block V8.
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While speaking at the Camaro homecoming at the Oshawa production facility, the lead man for the Camaro offered a few choice comments on the upcoming 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, including the fact that the super muscle car will feature the performance traction management system from the Corvette ZR- along with an automatic transmission and even more horsepower.
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What did a Crosley, pictured, have that most American cars didn't have circa 1950?
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Divorce can be messy, often resulting in items like sports cars being sold off as the couple splits up the assets but one guy from Lancaster, New York has gone to eBay in an effort to sell his 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS – or his wife – going so far as to offer up a side-by-side comparison of the two.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation that is slated to spend the next three years investigating whether modern electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries pose a significant fire risk to consumers from overcharging.