A woman in Pennsylvania has sued General Motors Co. in an attempt to force the car maker to address issues with the rear ends of more than 400,000 2007 and 2008 Chevrolet Impalas. This comes three years after dealers were instructed by GM to replace the rear-wheel spindle rods on police department Impalas because of [...]
There’s only one natural gas car available in the United States and made by a mainstream auto company, and that’s the Honda Civic GX, but despite this, General Motors formed an agreement to work with Westport, a manufacturer of natural gas engines, on the joint development of small compressed natural gas (CNG) engines that could [...]
General Motors Corporation shared today that the company is planning to idle two of it’s truck plants for two weeks in July because of an overstock in 2012 models. During the weeks between July 4th and July 17th, GM will be stopping production at the Flint Assembly plant in Michigan and the Fort Wayne Assembly [...]
Last Thursday, the U.S. Department of Transportation released a proposal to make black boxes – more properly known as event data recorders, or EDRs – mandatory in all light-duty vehicles. If this sounds like yet another way for the federal government to invade our privacy, consider that such devices are already included in new cars, [...]
Automotive News reported this morning that General Motors has announced that after a week-long shutdown because of a short supply of parts from Japan, it will be reopening its assembly plant in Shreveport, Louisiana on Monday. GM closed the plant, which specializes in small pickups like the GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado, because of a [...]