GM dealers not ordering new cars due to uncertain brand futures

In what is set to become a terrible domino effect, lagging demand for new cars and an uncertain future at Hummer, Saturn and Saab dealerships is leading to an inventory pile up. That, in turn, means dealers are ordering no new cars, driving General Motors’ production schedule even further out of alignment.
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Several potential buyers interested in Saturn

The future of Saturn is anything but clear but as the weeks roll on decision time for General Motors continues to contract. The ailing Detroit carmaker confirmed in its most recent viability plan that it would only supply product to Saturn through the 2012 model year, and earlier this month in a letter to dealers [...]

Parts shortages could delay GM’s plan to offer 26 hybrids by 2014

General Motors ambitious viability plan announced a fortnight ago called for up to $16.6 billion in additional aid and the reduction of more than 47,000 jobs across the company’s global resources, but there was another major announcement in the plan that went largely unnoticed. GM also pledged to increase the number of hybrid vehicles it [...]

Opel Escapes Clutches of GM

GM has had its hands full lately. As the automaker plans to get rid of or minimize a number of its brands, including Saturn, Saab, Hummer, and Pontiac, GM has officially announced that it will be spinning off Opel into its own brand. The German subsidiary of the American conglomerate has already asked the German [...]

Thorney Motorsport releases custom Astra and Corsa VXRs

Thorney Motorsport has revealed a set of modified Vauxhall hatchbacks for its UK customers. Both the Astra and Corsa are available in VXR-S and the hotter VXR-R trims, but only 25 vehicles of each type will be built, for 100 cars total.
Opel’s Astra is known as a Vauxhall in the UK and as a Saturn [...]

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, [...]

Small Cars Improve in Crash Tests Overall, but They Suffer Big Hit in Side Impacts

Small cars fare better in crashes than they used to, but they still lag behind larger vehicles in protecting passengers. Their disadvantages are especially clear in side-impact crashes.
———-Chrysler's PT Cruiser did poorly in the side-impact test.———-
Of the nine small cars recently tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, all [...]

GMs Says Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell Electric Test Vehicles Are Nearing 500,000th Mile

Despite financial woes that threaten the automaker's survival, General Motors is continuing research on a fuel-cell electric vehicle, announcing that sometime this week one of the 100 Chevy Equinox FCEVs being driven in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C., as part of Chevrolet's Project Driveway will drive the 500,000th zero-emissions [...]