June 19, 2013
- I felt hopeless as I fell hostage to the slick sales pitch for add-ons that I didn't want or need.
June 17, 2013
- GM is voluntarily recalling 193,000 SUVs due to an electrical problem that could cause power windows and door locks to malfunction and possibly cause a fire, the Detroit News reported. Affected vehicles include model-year 2006-07 Chevrolet Trailblazers, GMC Envoys, Buick...
- Ram, Chevrolet and GMC recently redesigned their light-duty trucks, and Ford’s F-150 underwent a well-received overhaul prior to that heating up the extremely important segment. PickupTrucks.com teamed up with Popular Mechanics to test all six players in the segment to...
- Don't you wish more auto enthusiasts were like Jay Leno? Sure, plenty of the stuff he likes isn't overly green, but at least he can't drive his massive collection of cars all at once. And he does like plenty of electric and hybrid vehicles too--among them, the Chevrolet Volt. Leno has his own Volt, so he was bound to like its sportier, more...
- Electric cars aren't cut much slack in the mainstream media, and any issues are usually jumped upon before facts have time to surface. Recent high-profile battery failures have been seized with zeal whether automobile-related or not, but one product safety company is aiming to curtail that with tighter safety standards for lithium-ion batteries...
June 15, 2013
- PickupTrucks.com Editor Mark Williams' first impressions of the 2014 GMC Sierra hauled straight to the top of our most-watched videos list this week, besting debuts by both the 2014 Acura RLX luxury sedan and 2013 Toyota Corolla S compact sedan....
June 14, 2013
- Not only did Cadillac's midsize car grow in size for 2014, the redesigned CTS' base price also got larger. When the rear- or all-wheel-drive sedan goes on sale this fall, it'll start at $46,025, including a $925 destination fee. Last...
- Boasting an EPA-estimated 27/46/33 mpg city/highway/combined, the diesel version of the Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan is now hitting dealerships in select cities. We took a brief drive in the 2014 Chevrolet Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel — Chevrolet's first diesel-powered car...
- The all-new 2013 Buick Encore is small. It's really small, and it's a challenge for almost any family to embrace it. Buick's three-row Enclave is for larger families, but I was interested to see whether the Encore, a subcompact crossover,...
June 13, 2013
- General Motors and BMW announced on Tuesday that they had jointly completed testing new quick-charging equipment for plug-in electric cars. The charging stations, cables, and plugs were built to the new Combined Charging Standard (CCS) specification adopted by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Each maker will soon roll out a battery-electric...
- A touching tribute to Dad: ‘I dream of the day that I can take my two boys for a ride on the bench seat and hear that motor at full song’.
June 11, 2013
- Prices for the all-new Jeep Cherokee were recently released, highlighting its competitive place in the segment when it goes on sale later this summer. The crossover is similar in size to the Chevrolet Equinox. That makes it larger than the...
- Last month, the Nissan Leaf passed the Chevrolet Volt to take this year's top spot among plug-in electric cars for sale. Now Chevy is fighting back. It announced that it will offer $5,000 cash back on remaining 2012 Volt range-extended electric cars, and $4,000 on 2013 models, according to Chevrolet spokespeople quoted yesterday. The carmaker's...
June 10, 2013
- If it wasn't so important for the future of electric cars, it could almost get tiresome: Just how do you improve batteries for longer life, quicker charging and a greater range? It's a question being investigated by great minds all around the world, and has turned up some surprising and exciting results over the last few years. Inspired by Popular...
June 9, 2013
- The Canadian plug-in electric vehicle market in May was a good news/bad news sandwich: Sales held roughly steady from April, but dropped 40 percenton a year-over-year basis. Rounding out the month with some good news, May almost certainly marked the sale of the country's 3,000th electric car from a major automaker. (The author has tracked 2,986...