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Sales of GMC trucks and SUVs were up 8% in June with… The Dubai Police Department is far from alone in the United Arab… GMC continued its incredible roll in April, moving 47,194 units in the… General Motors is allegedly weighing the expansion of its Arlington, Texas, assembly plant to… Developers behind the 2015 GMC Yukon and…

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Carfax: Unfixed Recall Issues Found in 3.5 Million Used Cars

If you get your recall issues fixed quickly you can leave happy! ATTENTION: If you own a car in these weird and wild times, there is a distinct possibility that your vehicle might be involved in a recall (particularly if your car was manufactured by a company whose name rhymes with Femoral Boaters). According to…

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Barra: GM Has Sold 200,000 EVs, Replaced Zero Batteries

How reliable are General Motors’ electric-vehicle batteries? Extremely reliable, if GM CEO and Chairman Mary Barra is correct. Last week, as Barra was speaking at the Automotive News World Congress event, she did some serious bragging about the longevity of GM’s batteries. GM has sold 200,000 electric cars, and according to Barra, not one of…

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GM Is Not Ready to Completely Commit to Push-Button Start

GM isn’t completely sold on the remix to ignition Just a few years ago, General Motors had to initiate a rather extensive ignition switch recall due to complications with the system that were linked to several major accidents. Therefore, it might be easy to assume that GM is entirely invested in push-button start. Yet, recent…

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Takata Airbag Recall Nearly Doubles to 34 Million

Takata’s airbag inflators have been in question since 2000, but this large recall is happening only now Forget the GM recall debacle of 2014; the Takata airbag recall is the big story that has drivers everywhere pissed off, and rightly so. The issue dates back a whole 15 years, and only now is it starting…

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GM Faces Losing $10 Billion in Lawsuits

The potentially-disfiguring, life-threatening, and eviscerating 2006 Chevy Cobalt General Motors says that it is facing no less than 79 lawsuits from customers seeking upwards of $10 billion for the loss of value in their recalled cars. 20 class-action lawsuits have been filed since the beginning of May, many of which use the concept of successor…

GM Opens Active Safety Test Area at Milford Proving Grounds

The photo above—which appears to show Davey running into traffic, presumably in defiance of his dog Goliath’s warnings—is actually a shot of the new $14 million Active Safety Test Area that General Motors has just opened at its famous Milford Proving Ground. Partially in response to the ignition switch recalls, GM has been making a…

GM Increases Accident Tally to 47

General Motors told federal regulators on Friday that the number accidents related to ignition switch defects is 47 and not 32 as they had previously told NHTSA. GM is otherwise unwavering when it comes to their fatality count, sticking with the company line that only 13 people died behind the wheels of vehicles such as…

GM Orders Dealers to Stop Selling 2013-2014 Chevrolet Cruze Models

No, GM, suddenly warning dealers to stop selling 2013-2014 Chevrolet Cruze vehicles is in no way nefarious-sounding given your otherwise pristine record of transparity. Boy, just when you start thinking GM couldn’t possibly have a worse March, there’s today’s news that General Motors has ordered dealerships to stop delivering 2013-2014 Chevrolet Cruze models equipped with…

“Is The New GM Responsible?”: Barra Fields Tough Questions

Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois) asked Barra: “Is The New GM Responsible?” Mary Barra’s testimony before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight is still going on, and we’ve only just now had some of the more important questions asked. After enduring a yes/no question barrage from John Dingell (D-Michigan) and the perpetual…

Honda Airbag Recall Expands to 5.4 Million Vehicles

The 2003 Honda Element, one of the vehicles affected in the Honda airbag recall After stating their intentions to do so in a congressional hearing last Friday, Honda has now officially and voluntarily expanded its recall of vehicles which contain faulty Takata airbags. Today the once-regional Honda airbag recall expands nationwide to cover approximately 5.4…

Robert E. Ferguson Named GM Senior VP, Global Public Policy

Robert E. Ferguson ©GM Robert E. Ferguson, former Senior Vice President, Global Cadillac, has been appointed to Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy, effective immediately. In this position, Ferguson will be reporting directly to Mary Barra and will take control of federal, state, and international government relations and public policy activities for GM here in…