Tagged: General Motors

What is OnStar? 0

What is OnStar?

Like most other markets, the auto industry is filled with its own unique assortment of complex technologies and related jargon. In an attempt to help explain some of the terms and technology in the...

Lingenfelter Previews 2010 Camaro Body Components 0

Lingenfelter Previews 2010 Camaro Body Components

Lingenfelter Performance Engineeering (LPE) — perhaps best known for its tire-shredding Lingenfelter Corvettes — has announced that it will be producing a line of body components for the 2010 Camaro. According to a post...

Pontiac Gets the Axe, GM Announces Updated Viability Plan 0

Pontiac Gets the Axe, GM Announces Updated Viability Plan

General Motors announced the details of its updated Viability Plan on Monday. In a statement announcing the news, GM said that this plan will “speed the reinvention of GM’s U.S. operations into a leaner,...

GM: Corvette ZR1 Laps Nürburgring in 7:26.4 0

GM: Corvette ZR1 Laps Nürburgring in 7:26.4

GM recently announced that a 2009 Corvette ZR1 — driven by GM Development Engineer Jim Mero — managed to compete a lap of the famed Nürburgring race track in Germany in an astonishing 7:26.4...

Wheel Talk: Corvette C6 Z51 vs. Cayman S 1

Wheel Talk: Corvette C6 Z51 vs. Cayman S

photo: © Calvin Cheng A nice comparison article over at Wheel Talk pits a C6 Z51 Corvette against a Porsche Cayman S. The comparison is written by Calvin Cheng, and does an admirable job...

Google Unveils Hybrid Car Initiative 0

Google Unveils Hybrid Car Initiative

Internet search behemoth Google unveiled a new initiative last week designed to raise awareness of plug-in hybrids and “vehicle-to-grid” technology. The currrent program involves a number of conventional hybrids (specifically 4 Toyota Priuses and 2...

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2007 Detroit Auto Show: Holden Efijy

With the flurry of new product introductions and concept vehicles being unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show this year, standing out from the crowd can take something special. I came across that something special...