General Motors to add third shift, 750 jobs at Wentzville Assembly

General Motors (GM) will add a third shift at its Wentzville Assembly plant, creating an estimated 750 new jobs, to build the all-new Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size pickups and Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size vans.

Dealers have ordered nearly

Read more »

Chevrolet Volt earns IIHS Top Safety Pick + award

The 2014 Chevrolet Volt with available Forward Collision Alert was the only vehicle out of 12 small cars tested to earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's 2014 Top Safety Pick + award. It also received an acceptable overall score in IIHS' challenging small

Read more »

2015 Chevrolet and GMC Pickups, SUVs to offer eight-speed transmission

Chevrolet and GMC have confirmed a new eight-speed automatic transmission will be standard on 2015 Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra and GMC Yukon Denali/Yukon XL Denali models equipped with the 6.2L EcoTec3 V-8.

The GM-developed Hydra-Matic 8L90

Read more »

GM offers vehicle discounts to education community; includes Chevrolet, Buick, GMC brands

Beginning through January 2, 2015, current employees of a public or private school, university or collegeare eligible to participate in the new GM Educator Discount program and receive a significant discount on the purchase or lease of a new 2015 or 2014 Chevrolet,

Read more »

General Motors India sold 4,865 vehicles in May 2014

General Motors India has sold 4,865 vehicles in the month of May 2014 against 8,500 units sold in the corresponding period last year. These include 1,716 units of Beat, 1,076 units of Tavera and 934 units of Chevrolet Enjoy.

"The automobile industry has been

Read more »

General Motors reports best US monthly sales since August 2008 in May 2014

General Motors Co. dealers delivered 284,694 vehicles in the United States in May, up 13 per cent compared to a year ago, marking the company's best May in seven years and its best total sales since August 2008. Retail sales - vehicles sold to individual buyers - were up 10 per cent

Read more »

General Motors announces five safety recalls in US

General Motors has informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of five safety recalls covering about 2.7-million vehicles in the United States. The recalls cover 2,440,524 previous generation passenger cars for tail lamp malfunctions;  103,158

Read more »

GM's Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant to build battery system for 2015 Chevrolet Spark EV

General Motors will bring all its electric vehicle battery building capabilities in-housewith production of battery systems for the 2015 Chevrolet Spark EV at its battery assembly plant in Brownstown, Mich.

"Using our in-house engineering and manufacturing expertise

Read more »

Lordstown gets US$ 50-million investment for next-generation Cruze

General Motors is investing US$ 50-million for a new flexible Trim Shop and upgrades to the Press Room at the Lordstown Complex for the next-generation Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan.

"This investment will enhance our customer responsiveness while

Read more »

Chevy Equinox, GMC Terrain earn Top Safety Pick+ ratings from IIHS

The Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain with available forward collision alert technology, earned 2014 Top Safety Pick+ ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the only mid-size SUVs of nine evaluated to earn Good ratings in the Institute's small overlap

Read more »