May 24, 2013
- GM believes it can convince consumers to reconsider diesels, which currently represent about 3% of U.S. vehicle sales compared with about 50% in Europe. To do so, it will have to show gasoline-loving Americans that diesels are no longer noisy nor smelly.
May 23, 2013
- The 4-door all-electric will be lower-priced than its U.S. competitors.
- GM believes it can convince consumers to reconsider diesels, which currently represent about 3% of U.S. vehicle sales compared with about 50% in Europe. To do so, it will have to show gasoline-loving Americans that diesels are no longer noisy nor smelly.
- The 2014 Chevy Impala will be the first to use General Motors' new 2.5-liter Ecotec four-cylinder engine.
- For all intents and purposes, automakers aren’t making a nickel from the few electric cars they sell. Fiat says it’s losing $10,000 on every 500E, and while General Motors disputes the Volt’s red ink—estimated at more than $40,000 per car by some sources—Chevrolet is doling out a Costco-size discoun...
- Or $19,995 after the federal tax credit… there's also a low-mileage lease for $199 a month with $999 down.
- General Motors Co. said Thursday its 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV will start at $27,495 and will cost less than $20,000 after factoring in a $7,500 federal tax credit available for electric vehicles.
- Spark to lease for $199 a month; Ford closing Aussie sites; probe reaches ex-Saab chair Muller; Snyder: Mixing cars, politics..
- A recent episode of "Mad Men" highlighted something all of us in the agency world already knew to be true -- small agencies are often brought to the pitch table by large clients because of their outstanding creative prowess, but are rarely awarded the account. The big-client relationships go instead to the larger agencies because of their perceived ability to marshal resources (read: manpower), when there's a need for multiple services. In the TV show, when they realize that they're up against...
- GM has a deep bench of greatest hits: the Buick Century, the Cadillac Sixty Special, the Advanced Design Chevy truck, and the small block V8 are a very small few. Do we have any reason to expect another good car from GM, though?Read more...
- The subcompact hot-hatch market is finally percolating in the US. First came the Fiat 500 Abarth and Chevy Sonic RS, and now the Ford Fiesta ST. Here's what the ST is like to drive. Read more...
- GM will price its new Chevrolet Spark electric vehicle at $27,495, including destination charges and before federal tax credits, placing it among the cheapest EVs on the market.
- The Nissan Leaf, the Fiat 500e and now the 2014 Chevy Spark EV 1LT. Three different electric hatchbacks that can all be had for the same low lease price: $199 per month. The Spark even has the same appealing $999 down payment as the Fiat (the Leaf's is $1,999) and both require 36-month leases, so the cost of these two city runabouts is identical, at least at the base level. The one potential hiccup: Chevy says it's a "low mileage lease," and you'll pay 25 cents a mile for each mile over 12,000...