Category: Autoblog

General Motors is ramping up work on advanced powertrains like fuel cells, diesel engines and hybrid systems as well as OnStar telematics systems and information technology. They are looking for up to 400 specialized technicians and engineers to work…

In conjunction with the announcement of an $8.7 billion loss for the second quarter, Ford confirmed what had been suspected for some time with a major shift in production capacity from trucks to cars. Starting in December of this year, three truck…

Hybrid Technologies has announced that it will be renaming its electric vehicle conversions with LiV branding for 2008. The newest model based on the Toyota Yaris is now called the LiV Wise rather than the utterly forgettable Y-120. The LiV Wise…

When Cadillac introduced the first generation CTS not long after we entered the new millennium, it had high hopes for sales of the car in Europe an . The brand really wanted to attack BMW's share of the premium small to mid-sized sedan market with a…

Currently the smallest cars that GM builds in various regions are all based off completely different platforms. The Opel Corsa is a completely different animal from the Chevrolet Aveo, for example. GM has been making many of their other platforms…

Car sharing service Flexcar has been in operation since 2000 when they launched in Seattle, Washington and they've now expanded into their tenth US city, Baltimore, Maryland. The company is partnering with Johns Hopkins University to provide four…

London Mayor Boris Johnson has kicked off his plan to add 1,000 electric vehicles to his city's fleet by taking delivery of four Mitusbishi i-MiEVs this week. The cars were paid for in part by the UK government's Low Carbon Procurement Programme and…

Update: Video of the live GMC Denali XT reveal is available
click above for more live shots of the GMC Denali XT Concept
GM designer Brian Nesbitt publicly unveiled the GMC Denali XT concept today at the 2008 Chicago Auto Show. The Denali is the…

Audi of America president Johan de Nysschen has issued a public response to the firestorm he created yesterday when he reportedly told a member of the media that the Chevrolet Volt is “a car for idiots.” Anyone who has met de Nysschen in person knows…

2012 Hyundai Azera – Click above for high-res image gallery
The current Hyundai Azera is not a bad looking car, but compared to the glut of new models that already are or will soon be populating Hyundai showrooms in the next year, it's starting to…