Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Chevrolet , Racing Corvette Racing Series, Episode 1 - Click above to watch video after the jump As Chevrolet Corvette Racing team heads into its first full season of competition in the American Le Mans Series GT2 class, the first full episode of a new General Motors video series chronicling their journey has been posted on YouTube. The 12-part series will follow the team as it gets ready for the nine race series as well as the annual June treck to Le Mans for the 24 Hours.

Read the original post:
Video: Episode 1 of Chevrolet’s Corvette Racing Series hits the interwebs cinema

Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Chevrolet , Racing Corvette Racing Series, Episode 1 - Click above to watch video after the jump As Chevrolet Corvette Racing team heads into its first full season of competition in the American Le Mans Series GT2 class, the first full episode of a new General Motors video series chronicling their journey has been posted on YouTube. The 12-part series will follow the team as it gets ready for the nine race series as well as the annual June treck to Le Mans for the 24 Hours. Episode one begins with a look back at where 2009 left off

More:
Video: Episode 1 of Chevrolet’s Corvette Racing Series hits the interwebs cinema

Review: Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP induces grins, wheelspin and wheelies Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP - Click above for high-res image gallery We’re going to get ahead of ourselves a little bit with our review of the new Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP.

Read the original: 
Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 3.11.10

Review: Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP induces grins, wheelspin and wheelies Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP - Click above for high-res image gallery We’re going to get ahead of ourselves a little bit with our review of the new Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP. We..

Excerpt from:
Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 3.11.10

Filed under: Sedan , Chevrolet 2010 Chevrolet Malibu patent drawings - Click above for high-res image gallery Over the past nine months, we’ve seen the next-generation Chevrolet Malibu twice at General Motors media events that were closed to the public. On neither occasion were we allowed to take any photographs of the styling buck, but now we can finally show you what the next Malibu looks like.

More here:
2012 Chevrolet Malibu design completely revealed in patent filings?

Filed under: Government/Legal , Chrysler , GM Without the government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler , the U.S.

Originally posted here: 
Ratner: Auto bailout saved Michigan from bankruptcy

2011 Nissan NV High Roof If you need a full size pickup, statistics show that consumers shop Ford, then Chevy, then Dodge.

See more here: 
The 2011 Nissan NV Commercial Vans Answer A Question No One Was Asking

Filed under: Truck , Work , GM , GMC , Luxury 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD - Click above for high-res image gallery GMC , the “Professional Grade” truck maker under the General Motors umbrella, isn’t finished adding luxe touches to its Heavy Duty series of Sierra pickup trucks. Just yesterday, GMC rolled out a brand-new Denali version of the HD pickem-up truck, but later this year at launch it will be available only as a crew-cab, four-wheel drive, single-rear wheel, three-quarter-ton model. Before the end of the year, though, GMC will begin spreading the Denali love down its entire line-up of heavy haulers, and PickupTrucks.com is reporting that the dual-rear wheel dually chassis will be included.

See more here: 
Report: New GMC Sierra Denali HD to get the dually treatment

We’ve been telling you all along that stopping a car with unintended acceleration isn’t a big deal, despite the horror stories you hear on the media. The above video demonstrates two things: first, how to shift a Prius into neutral, which automatically returns the engine to idle; and second, that a Prius can be stopped with the brakes, even under full throttle acceleration

More here:
Public Service Video: Stopping A Runaway Prius

Things are tough all over these days, including things at Lamborghini. Hit hard by the global recession, the companies sales plummeted nearly 38% in 2009, resulting in a pretax loss of $47.6 million. Unit sales fell from 2,430 in 2008 to 1,515 in 2009.

More:
No Surprise: Lamborghini’s Sales Declined Last Year

Filed under: Marketing/Advertising , Chevrolet , GM General Motors is working hard to improve the image of its core brands, and the largest GM division, Chevrolet , will be getting some fresh new marketing in the near future.

More here: 
Chevrolet to employ new "Excellence for Everyone" ad campaign

Video Games | MotoGP 09/10 | The Open Air Trailer XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii I’ve been playing videogames since the late 70’s. This meant we had one game… Pong – that was it

View post: 
MotoGP 09/10: The Videogame

Filed under: Truck , Work , GM , GMC , Misc. Auto Shows , Diesel 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD - Click above for high-res image gallery For the first time in its history - and considering that the company has been around for over 100 years, that’s significant - GMC decided to make an official appearance at the National Truck Equipment Association show in St. Louis

More here:
NTEA 2010: 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD puts the Heavy in Heavy Duty

Looks like a clean 1969 TR-6 from here Take a classic 1969 Triumph TR-6 and drop in the twin-cam, turbocharged motor and transmission from a mid 1990s Nissan Skyline GTR and what do you get? Is the end result sexy or sacrilegious?

Read the original post:
Rust Or Lust: Triumph TR-6 With A Skyline Motor

Love your Z06, but long for the carbon ceramic brakes and magnetic ride active damping system of the ZR-1? Wish the Z06 had more carbon fiber and less fiberglass?

Originally posted here:
2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Carbon: Lustworthy, Limited Edition Goodness

You’ve all heard me talk about custom cars before – the good, the bad and unfortunately the, ugly.

Read more here: 
eBay Charger: Good, Bad or Ugly?

In this episode of Bullrun Behind the Scenes we see the teams getting hung up at the very location that caused so much trouble in last weeks episode… the dreaded ferry. Team Lambo and BMW did manage to make it across with no worries but the other teams got totally screwed when Captain Chubb-Chubb decided to go on lunch. The cool part about the behind the scenes footage is getting to see the contestants interacting with each other in a regular everyday manner which is not something generally seen on any reality show

Read more from the original source: 
Bullrun 2010: Behind the Scenes, Episode III

Filed under: Truck , Work , Nissan , Misc. Auto Shows Nissan NV commercial vans - Click above for high-res image gallery Historically, America’s commercial vehicle marketplace has been dominated by domestic automakers

Go here to read the rest:
Nissan unveils NV commercial van, available in three different flavors

First it was Toyota, offering 0% financing for many of its cars and trucks. Next came GM, also offering 0% financing on most trucks and selected cars

Go here to read the rest:
It’s A Good Time To Be Car Shopping: Ford Joins The 0% Club

Remember the good old days, when Toyota built reliable but boring cars for the masses who simply wanted to get from point A to point B with as little fuss as possible? Remember the legendary reputation of their compact pickup trucks, so tough that not even TopGear could kill one

Read the original post:
Irony, Thy Name Is Toyota Advertising

Filed under: Truck , Chevrolet , Ford , GM , GMC , Diesel 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD - Click above to enlarge Not even a month ago, at the end of our post on the 2011 Ford Super Duty engine specs, we wrote: “General Motors, there’s a big ass ball in your court.” Someone at GM has apparently grabbed their big ass racket and said, “Oh, I got this…”, then smacked the ball right back into play. The Ford ’s measurements 390 horsepower, 735 pound-feet of grunt

The rest is here: 
GM quickly one-ups Ford with 2011 Duramax diesel ratings, shows off GMC Sierra Denali HD

Filed under: Truck , Chevrolet , Ford , GM , GMC , Diesel 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD - Click above to enlarge Not even a month ago, at the end of our post on the 2011 Ford Super Duty engine specs, we wrote: “General Motors, there’s a big ass ball in your court.” Someone at GM has apparently grabbed their big ass racket and said, “Oh, I got this…”, then smacked the ball right back into play. The Ford ’s measurements 390 horsepower, 735 pound-feet of grunt.

More here: 
GM quickly one-ups Ford with 2011 Duramax diesel ratings, shows off GMC Sierra Denali HD

Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Chevrolet 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Carbon - Click above for high-res image gallery For the truly hard-core Corvette fanatic who likes to spend weekends thrashing his or her car at the track, there is only one Corvette worthy of consideration: the Z06. However, thanks to the ZR1 , the lightweight, normally aspirated 7.0-liter coupe is no longer the absolute quickest Vette, but it is felt to have the most responsive handling. What it doesn’t have is the uber-cool carbon-ceramic brakes, carbon-fiber body panels and magnetic ride active damping system of its supercharged sibling.

Excerpt from:
2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Carbon slots in right below ZR1

Filed under: Car Buying , Marketing/Advertising , GM , Toyota Recently, General Motors has been offering special buying incentives specifically tailored to steer people away from Toyota and Lexus dealerships, and even get current Toyota owners out of their cars. And while most people look at this as just a clever marketing technique to promote other automakers in the wake of Toyota’s recall wound, a group of dealers are none too happy about the marketing campaign. What’s more, because the U.S

Originally posted here:
Toyota dealer group peeved over tax dollar use for GM incentives targeted at Toyota owners

Photo: Dan Strohl / Hemmings Auto Blogs Love Saabs, and can’t wait until Spyker works their magic with the legendary brand?

View original here: 
Free Saab 900 Turbos!

Carl Edwards has been placed on a three race probation for his deliberate punting of Brad Keselowski in last Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500. Edwards was not fined, suspended or docked points for Sunday’s crash. Per NASCAR president Mike Helton, “We made it clear to Carl that this wasn’t acceptable (behavior), that it went beyond what we said in January about letting drivers police themselves.” Helton went on to say, “We parked Carl (after Sunday’s incident) and gave him the three race probation for what he did.” Which means nothing, really

See the original post:
Breaking News: NASCAR Puts Carl Edwards on Probation

Filed under: Etc.

Here is the original post: 
Cadillac distancing itself from parent GM to elude bankruptcy stigma?

If you’ve got a need to own a brand new, dealer-purchased Dodge Viper, you’d better get your financing in order quickly. Unconfirmed rumors seem to indicate that the last production run of the 10 cylinder, 600 horsepower Corvette fighter will start by the end of the month.

Excerpt from: 
Rumor: Dodge To Start Last Viper Production Run On March 29

Filed under: Performance , Wagon , Ford , Design/Style Many of us who sit around the Autoblog campfire every day are fans of station wagons. We love cars and love the idea of having some extra utility without giving up the generally superior driving dynamics of cars versus SUVs or crossovers

Read more: 
Rendered Speculation: Ford Taurus SHO wagon is the apple of our eye

Filed under: SUV , Plants/Manufacturing , GM , Hummer , Off-Road Hummer H3T - Click above for high-res image gallery Unless a buyer for Hummer materializes in the next few months, General Motors will continue to wind-down its environmental group dart board. The slow death of Hummer has actually been in process since before The General announced that the sale of the brand to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery fell through , as the company’s Shreveport, LA facility stopped making H3 and H3T models in January. But while Shreveport has been down for two months, it looks like the plant could dust off the H3 tooling to fill one more big order

Read the original here:
Hummer plant coming back online to fill 849-unit order?

WHILE THE CORVETTE may never get an official Australian launch, the next-generation C7 Corvette is expected to at least take on a more worldly style.

Go here to read the rest: 
2013 Chevrolet Corvette C7 To Utilise GM’s Global Design Strength

I’m not much of a water sports kind of guy. I swim, but solely as an alternative to drowning. If I was on the Titanic, I’d have been one of the guys below deck yelling for more duct tape to patch the hole.

Read more here: 
JetLev Flyer: Now Your Jet Pack Can Drown You, Too!

Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety , Toyota After Dave Chappelle threw himself overboard the USS Hollywood, he did an interview in which he said, “When a person tells you something’s… just business, that means some ice-cold [stuff] might be about” to happen. We can imagine that Toyota , doing everything it can to make its case better in the eyes of the American government and public, called its fellow members of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers to let them know “Don’t take what we’re about to do personally…” What Toyota did was send a graph of recent recalls and safety complaints to certain Congressional reps on important committees.

See the original post:
Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers in peril over Toyota recalls?

Brian’s homemade oil cooler may have looked crude, but it cut his oil change time in half. Source: You Drive What?

Read the original:
Time = Money

Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Performance , Chevrolet , GM , Design/Style Chevrolet 50th Anniversary Corvette Stingray Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery The Chevrolet Corvette is a uniquely American invention. It’s the quintessential sportscar from the land that brought us baseball and apple pie. Interesting, then, that General Motors would choose to seek out design studies from its various styling studios from all around the globe, particularly those in Europe.

Original post: 
Report: GM scouring the globe for next Corvette design, first time looking beyond U.S.

Being kooked up in the house all winter sucks – seriously, there is nothing fun, exciting or even remotely thrilling about it. Day in and day out we stare outside waiting for the weather to break so that maybe, just maybe we can get our rides out of the garage and go for a quick spin. I think it’s due to all this cabin fever that I’ve been starting to get a lot of emails regarding the this years upcoming crop of road rallies

View original here: 
One Lap of America – Part 1: The Prep.

Always wanted to be a motorcycle manufacturing magnate? Have the factory, tooling and workers in place, but just can’t seem to successfully market your “Little Princess Daisy” choppers to the hardcore biker crowd?

Read the original post: 
Psst! Hey Buddy, Want To Buy A Motorcycle Brand?

Did Spyker hire the designer of Suzuki’s X90? If this is the way Spyker styles upcoming Saabs, we’re in for some ugly sheet metal on the roads in coming years

See the rest here:
Spyker D12 Peking to Paris SUV: Clown Car or Super Car?

Filed under: Truck , Work , Ford , First Drive , Off-Road 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty - Click above for high-res image gallery It’s a guy thing. Tim Allen understands.

View original post here: 
First Drive: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty brings the biggest tools

Filed under: Government/Legal , GM When U.S. domestic automakers were commuting back and forth between Detroit and Washington while begging for government funds in the fall of 2008, a big deal was made of the fact that their CEOs were traveling in private jets instead of driving company vehicles. The backlash from JetGate was substantial, as each automaker quickly ended the use of expensive airfare for corporate travel and signed on with less pricey charter services.

Read more:
Report: GM CEO Whitacre still flies on AT&T jets equipped with golden parachutes

You didn’t know that Malaysia produced automobiles did you? Well, they do and to be quite honest, I think they’re pretty damn horrific. Bufori is the company I speak of, and momma mia’ if they don’t produced some ugly-ass automobiles

View original post here: 
The Bufori La JOYA: A Malaysian Masterpiece?

If you’ve got a soft spot in your heart for these big Bavarian GT cars like I do, you may want to have a look at this example, up for sale on eBay .

View post: 
eBay Deal Of The Week: 1984 BMW 635CSi For $8,995

Filed under: Performance , SUV , GM , Saab , Spyker , Luxury Spyker D12 Peking-to-Paris concept - Click above for high-res image gallery We’re all well aware that the recently sealed deal between Spyker and General Motors means good things for the ailing Saab brand - in fact, without Spyker’s eleventh-hour intervention, the Swedish automaker would have been lost to the annals of history. Apparently, though, the Saab tie-up means good things for Spyker, too

More here: 
Report: Saab deal helps put Spyker D12 Peking-to-Paris back on track

We’ve already lamented about the delayed release of Gran Turismo 5 for the PlayStation 3, so I won’t flog that particular dead horse. If it actually does come out in our collective lifetimes, the above video shows you what the NASCAR racing will look like

View original post here: 
If GT5 Is Ever Released, Here’s What The NASCAR Racing Will Look Like

Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Plants/Manufacturing , Chevrolet 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS - Click above for high-res image gallery No matter which side of the Mustang / Camaro divide you fall on there’s no arguing that Chevrolet’s reborn entrant in the pony car wars has been a hit. It’s been less than a year since production of the 2010 Camaro began at General Motors’ Oshawa assembly and the 100,000th example rolled off the line this week. The milestone car was reportedly an inferno orange SS

Original post: 
Report: GM builds 100,000th Chevrolet Camaro

Filed under: New York Auto Show , Spy Photos , Performance , Wagon , Cadillac , GM Well, it sure looks like it. All credit for this one goes to one Aaron P., who emailed the following to us: So I was walking down Grand Avenue in Downtown LA, and they were shooting a Caddy commercial. There was a covered car, which I thought was the CTS Coupe, but the wind blew off the cover and there was a CTS-V Wagon.

Read more here:
Peekaboo: Cadillac CTS-V Wagon spied in L.A.?

Review: 2010 Lexus LS460 Sport could’a been a contenda 2010 Lexus LS460 Sport - Click above for high-res image gallery With Lexus having carefully cultivated a reputation for isolating drivers from all of the undignified sensations normally… How a Corvette C6.R comes to life: Autoblog tours Pratt & Miller shop Autoblog tours Pratt & Miller shop - Click above for high-res image gallery Racing improves the breed. How many times have you heard some automaker PR flack spout that line in order to…

View post:
Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 3.5.10

Filed under: Chrysler , Dodge , GM , Jeep Just about every automaker posted February sales gains compared to the same month in 2009, and industry-wide sales were up 13 percent for the month.

Read the original: 
Report: Chrysler ends 25-month sales skid by sending 58% of new vehicles to fleets

I don’t understand why my gas mileage dropped by 20%… Autoblog got the above pic from an alert Michigan reader. It’s a Hyundai Equus, their flagship luxury car, with an uber-ricer rear wing.

More here: 
Please Tell Me This Hyundai Equus Is A Joke

Filed under: Government/Legal , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , GM According to Automotive News (which is citing four separate yet unknown sources), General Motors is preparing to reinstate more than 580 dealers that had applied for government-mediated arbitration to keep their franchises in the United States. For those keeping track, 580 represents exactly half of the 1,160 dealerships that signed up to go through the arbitration process . These selected dealerships would potentially be reinstated outside the process of arbitration

The rest is here:
Hope on the horizon? General Motors reportedly to reinstate more than 580 dealers

Episode 3 started off casually enough with the teams still at Eagle Air Base. Last week if you remember Team Corvette got the boot because of a bit too much show boating in the challenge

View original post here:
Bullrun Season 3, Episode 3: Rail Yard

OK, I’m not going to start the hate fest about teaching values and not understanding the concept of of “earning things” that inevitably comes out of these posts, but I will say this: who in their right mind thinks it’s a good idea to give a kid with no driving experience a 425 horsepower muscle car? Do you think this is going to end any way other than badly? Because I sure don’t

Here is the original post: 
Parents Buy 16 Year Old Son A 2010 Camaro SS

Filed under: Etc. , Buick , Cadillac , Chevrolet , GMC , Canada They won’t make you ski, skate or snowboard with any additional talent or zest, but the “official” Olympic-branded vehicles used during the 2010 Winter Games are going up for sale in Canada later this month. Each of the General Motors supplied cars and trucks spent time in Vancouver and Whistler shuttling athletes, officials, VIPs and dignitaries to and from the competitions and related events.

Here is the original post:
GM Olympic fleet vehicles will all find their way to Canadian dealers

This was just too good to pass up. It’s a 1972 Norsjo Shopper and it’s the first one I’ve ever seen. This thing is hilarious and seems to be a distance cousin to one of those little buggers that you’d get from The Scooter Store .

View original here: 
eBay Find: 1972 Norsjo Shopper

Your mortgage (or your rent) is late, the job you hate is on thin ice and your 15 year old beater car is on it’s last legs. There are no jobs, the economy is in shambles, our cars are trying to kill us and everything you eat, drink or breathe contains something to ensure you die a slow, horrible death

Read the original:
Demotivation 3.0: 35 More Demotivational Posters For Your Enjoyment

Remember kids, burnouts are for the street or the track, not the garage, OK?

The rest is here:
1981 Z28 Burnout

Filed under: Car Buying , Marketing/Advertising , GM General Motors just posted a 12-percent sales increase for the month of February, and now the automaker is hoping to continue its strong sales trend by offering 0 percent financing for 60 months on sales that occur during the month of March. Curiously, this announcement comes just a few days after Toyota started its own 0 percent campaign .

Go here to read the rest:
GM offering 0% financing for month of March

Filed under: Car Buying , Marketing/Advertising , GM General Motors just posted a 12-percent sales increase for the month of February, and now the automaker is hoping to continue its strong sales trend by offering 0 percent financing for 60 months on sales that occur during the month of March.

See the original post:
GM offering 0% financing for month of March

God bless the Ford Motor Company . We’ve dealt with a lot of automotive garbage over the last year at the hands of U.S.

View original post here: 
New Mustang V6 gets 31 mpg: This changes everything.

I’d held back reporting on the Lexus 200h hybrid’s introduction at Geneva, since we were told that it wouldn’t be coming to the U.S. market. Lexus has apparently changed their minds and will introduce the four door hatch at the upcoming New York Auto Show

Go here to see the original: 
Geneva Motor Show Update: Lexus CT 200h Now U.S. Bound