Spy shots: Cruze-based Buick compact sedan

General Motors is still more than a year away from launching the Chevrolet Cruze sedan in North America but instead of speeding up its arrival the carmaker is working on a new Buick sedan based on the Cruze platform. Fears of GM’s cash problems haven’t managed to deter work on the new Buick compact sedan, [...]

Video: Third trailer for Fast and Furious 4 airs on Super Bowl Sunday

Paul Walker and Vin Diesel return for the fourth instalment of the Fast & Furious series and once again play characters caught up in the world of truck hijacking and stolen cars. The third official trailer for the upcoming movie has just been aired as a Super Bowl commercial.
In it, we get a look at [...]

Next-gen Buick small sedan could be built by Opel

A next-generation Buick small sedan, headed for sale in the U.S. and China, could be built around the FWD Delta II platform in Opel’s Russelsheim, Germany plant, according to sources inside Opel. The move would displace some Saab production, but the next-generation 9-3 is already expected to be built in Trollhattan, Sweden.
News emerging from Opel [...]

Chrysler’s LaSorda denies sale of brands

One of the biggest criticisms for struggling Detroit carmakers General Motors and Chrysler is the number of brands they have under the one roof and the associated problem of selling models that often compete with one another in the same segments. In its efforts to secure its share of a federal bailout, GM said it [...]

Video: Second trailer for Fast and Furious 4 released

Paul Walker and Vin Diesel return for the fourth instalment of the Fast & Furious series and once again play characters caught up in the world of truck hijacking and stolen cars. The second official trailer for the upcoming movie has just been released, revealing that a number of other characters from the first movie [...]

GM sales chief says Saturn is safe

In the last couple of weeks there have been numerous reports that General Motors may be looking at dropping its poor performing brands such as Saturn, Pontiac and GMC, however the carmaker’s vice-president of North American vehicle sales, Mark LaNeve, has pointed out that the process is not so simple. One of the biggest challenges, [...]

Buick to shun large sedans in favor of midsize segment

The upcoming Buick LaCrosse, sitting on GM’s global mid-sized car architecture, represents a new direction for the brand according to the vice-president of Buick-Pontiac-GMC, Susan Docherty. Docherty claims that falling demand for full-sized cars means that GM will not be abandoning large cars altogether, but rather dialing down their importance in its lineup and investing [...]

GM selling 252 classic cars and concepts from Heritage Museum

General Motors’ cash struggles have forced the Detroit carmaker’s accountants to find creative ways of producing income, and the latest bid to raise extra capital sees the General auctioning off more than 250 new and old production models and concepts that up until now have been admired in the company’s Heritage Museum Collection.
The cars will [...]