In case you missed it this morning, General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson made some big news just one month after the “new” GM emerged from bankruptcy protection. First of all, Henderson announced that the GM FastLane blog would now be used to solicit feedback on new designs directly from customers.... 

15-08-2009

Must. Beat. Godzilla. For some reason. Here’s the skinny. A tuner company called East Texas Muscle Cars is fitting a couple of turbos to a 2010 V6 Camaro in order to “beat” the ‘Ring time laid down by none other than the Nissan GT-R. That leaves us with two questions then: how... 

12-08-2009

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi picks the image that goes on the cover of each breathlessly-awaited edition of the franchise. For the latest version of the game for the PSP, the Corvette ZR1 graces the box. Though he hails from Japan where there’s many flavors of off-the-hook cars from... 

9-08-2009

Chevrolet Orlando Concept Next to Get Volt Powertrain?: GM bosses say the Chevrolet Orlando concept will come to market in 2011. But will it also be the next vehicle to get GM’s gas-electric Voltic powertrain? General Motors With GM having spent a reported $1 billion bringing the Chevrolet Volt... 

7-08-2009

The National Corvette Museum is celebrating its 15th anniversary in style by raffling off a one of a kind Corvette Grand Sport. The Artic White Vette has a unique yet tasteful black hood treatment with Corvette Racing’s Jack mascot painted at the center bulge with a red stripe outline. The NCM... 

2-08-2009

Reclothing Corvettes with Italian coachwork is a time-honored tradition; one that sadly lapsed for years in between the age of classics and the modern era. But in an industry where old designs and old badges are resurrected with increasing regularity, this is one practice we’re glad to see come... 

23-07-2009

According to The New York Times, General Motors now says that a problem which stopped production of one of its hottest models has been fixed. As we reported first last week, a number of 2010 Camaro SS owners were experiencing failures related to the Tremec six-speed manual gearboxes in their new muscle... 

22-07-2009

Sporadic reports have begun popping up in the Camaro5 forums about issues with V8-powered SS models equipped with the manual transmission. It seems that doing a hard launch or using the launch control system occasionally results in a broken output shaft, a serious failure that will most likely leave... 

13-07-2009

You want a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro? You’d better come strong with more money than the MSRP requires, and you’d better be willing to wait. Bloomberg is reporting that General Motors can’t build the reborn bow tie pony car fast enough to quench public demand. That’s excellent news... 

27-06-2009