GM Canada Sales Up in May Thanks Primarily to Pickups
General Motors’ sales in Canada were up 4% in May with 27,462 vehicles delivered. As has been the trend for much of 2015, sales of GM’s four pickups—the GMC Canyon and Sierra and Chevrolet Colorado and Silverado—carried a great deal of the load. In fact, at 10,907 deliveries, the sales of those four models combined […]
Chevy Pickup Trucks Power Bowtie Brand’s May Sales Gains
Last month was good to Chevrolet, with the bowtie brand enjoying a total of 207,970 units sold in May 2015, which translated to a 1.4% increase in year-over-year sales. 146,681 of those vehicles were retail sales, which represents a substantial 8% year-over-year increase. Trucks did most of the heavy lifting last month, with Chevrolet pickup […]
Demand for GMC Canyon Costing Workers Their Lunch Break
Demand for the 2015 GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado has been so high that unpaid lunch breaks have been scrapped at the GM truck plant in Wentzville, Missouri. The move was made to increase productivity and to add 18 extra minutes of production time during the day, which would have been lost with the time […]
Amman Celebrates 10 Years of GMPT-E Turin
GM President Dan Amman was on-hand at GM Powertrain Europe Turin on Tuesday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the start of production. Amman announced plans to continue the bond between Turin and the Politecnico di Torino, which will result in the continued expansion of the engineering development center. A letter of intent ensures the […]
Fourteen Chevys to Feature Android Auto and Apple CarPlay for 2016
In the automotive arms race to better integrate smartphones and vehicles, Hyundai may have been able to claim “First!” by equipping (only) the 2015 Sonata with Android Auto, but a few hours later, Chevrolet loudly countered with “Most!” Today Chevy announced that for the 2016 model year, the bowtie brand will offer Android Auto and […]
391,325 Pledge to Curb Water Usage in Annual Mayor’s Challenge
This year, Toyota was one of the primary sponsors of the Wyland Foundation’s 2015 Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation, which resulted in 391,325 individual pledges to reduce water usage in a time where so many areas of the United States are impacted by drought. Between April 1st and 30th, citizens from more than […]
Best Exterior Colors Offered by Jeep
Jeep isn’t afraid of unexplored territory, and it certainly isn’t afraid of colors. Most of its vehicles offer a wide array of paint finishes, and we’re here to help guide you through them. Read on to learn about the best exterior colors offered by Jeep. [wptab name=”Cherokee Colors”] 2015 Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee All trims are […]
Here’s Darth Vader in a Cascada, Because Social Marketing
In case you might have missed it, this past May 4th was something of a national holiday—unofficially known around the world as Star Wars Day. You know, because “May the Fourth (Force) Be With You.” Get it? To be fair, you probably already knew this, and you probably very much got it because every single […]
Uber Leaves Kansas After Background Check Bill Clears
With the spate of incidences involving Uber drivers being accused and convicted of various and sundry crimes up to and including rape and assault, it only stands to reason that states in which the company operates would seek to require background checks for drivers. Of course, we are talking about American politics and American politicians, […]
GM Canada Sales Up 15% in April
General Motors’ sales in Canada were up 15% in April with 29,127 units moved across the Chevy, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac brands. All brands were up significantly, largely on the strength of crossovers and pickups, though several cars also contributed heavily to GM’s sales success. “Customer demand for our Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac cars […]
GM Sales Up 6% in April on Crossover, Pickup Momentum
General Motors had a strong month of sales in April, moving 269,056 vehicles between its Chevy, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac brands. Up 5.9% overall, GM’s gains were largely driven by sales of crossovers and trucks, both of which were up double digits year-over-year at 13% and 25% respectively. “At GM, truck and crossover sales have […]
Chevy Launches its Own Lifestyle Magazine
Chevy is really taking an interest in print media, lately. Not only has the bowtie brand started putting digital video ads in magazines (yes, you read that right), but now the company is launching a magazine of its own. It’s called New Roads, and the very first issue is already available to read online for […]
Chevy Runs Video Ads in Magazines
The future is now… sort of. Chevrolet has begun running digital video ads in print publications, which seems pretty futuristic, until you realize that print publications will probably be dead in about ten or fifteen years (we kid, we kid). The American automaker recently embedded a small digital video screen in the pages of Popular […]
Jalopnik Names Chevy Silverado Best Pickup Under $40,000
Truck Trend may have chosen the 2015 Ford F-150 as their Truck of the Year, but the acerbic writers over at Jalopnik came to a different conclusion when they compared this year’s crop of pickups. As part of the automotive website’s “Truck Yeah” feature (named, we assume ironically, for the cheesy Tim McGraw song), writer […]
Ram 1500 EcoDiesel Named ‘Truck of the Year,’ Chrysler 200 Named ‘Car of the Year’
The Rocky Mountain Automotive Press (RMAP) recently gave Fiat Chrysler a fair bit of bragging rights; the automaker took home RMAP’s Car and Truck of the Year awards. The 2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel was named Truck of the Year while the 2015 Chrysler 200 was named Car of the Year. This marks the ninth year […]
GM Canada Reports March, 1st Quarter Sales
General Motors—through its Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac brands—totaled 21,027 sales in Canada during the month of March. This figure marks a 3.5% year-over-year decrease, but a significant quarterly increase in GM’s truck sales is indicative of better months ahead. “Our three truck strategy of mid-size, light duty and heavy duty trucks was designed to […]
Don’t Expect a Mid-Size Ram Pickup Any Time Soon
The Chevy Colorado and the GMC Canyon have seen tremendous success since their reintroduction to the market last year. And the Nissan Frontier and Toyota Tacoma—well, they exist at least. The American truck market is full of mid-size pickup trucks, but why don’t we already have a mid-size Ram pickup? Ram is exclusively a truck […]
GM’s March US Sales Live and Die on Trucks and Crossovers
General Motors’ March sales in the US were down 2.4% with just shy of a quarter-million deliveries. While cars of all sizes have largely struggled throughout the first quarter of the year—a trend that extends to nearly every major automaker—the Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, and GMC brands have largely lived and died with the success of […]