Posts Tagged ‘volvo cars’

GMC cutting next-gen Acadia and Lambda-based SUT?

Monday, June 30th, 2008
General Motor's "commercial grade" truck unit may be losing two of its planned products, leaving some to contemplate the future of the nameplate in general. It's too early to consider GMC dead, but with the apparent cancellation of the next-generation Acadia CUV as well as the planned unibody truck ......

Strike at Malibu plant averted for now, Lucerne and DTS production to resume

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
GM is still dancing with the UAW over contract issues, now its doing it with local plants regarding items that weren't in the national agreement. However, The General has managed to wring two more days to negotiate before workers at its Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas City, KS, walk out. The 2,600 ......

How To: Measure your vehicle’s Cd without a million-dollar wind tunnel

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
At highway speeds, your vehicle is fighting an invisible foe trying to hold it back. The nemesis is wind resistance, and it is an automobile's worst enemy. Overcoming the resistance of the air is the key to increasing acceleration, top speed, and improving fuel economy.Wind resistance is often meas......

UAW threatens to walk out on Chevy Malibu production

Friday, April 18th, 2008
General Motors has been dealing with a lot of strikes lately. The United Auto Worker union's strike against one of its main suppliers, American Axle, has been reducing the General's inventory of trucks and SUVs for about a month now, and also threatened production of the Chevy Malibu before the auto......

UAW strike halts GM’s CUV production

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
This morning, UAW workers at General Motor's Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan have began a work stoppage, halting production of the Saturn Outlook, Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia. Both GM and the UAW are remaining mum on why the strike began, but it's likely due to an unsigned contract that co......

Charting the changes: MY2009 sees big improvements by GM

Monday, April 14th, 2008
We don't normally cover every little change an automaker makes to its lineup as the model year clicks over, but General Motors has some significant features its adding for 2009 that shouldn't fall through the cracks. For one, Bluetooth will finally become on nearly all of GM's cars and trucks. For t......

Bats and Boats - Special edition Volvos for Bo’ Sox fans and sailors alike

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
New England is Volvo Country. It's also home territory for the loved and loathed Red Sox. There's plenty of cars plastered with "B" stickers, license plates and trinkum. Long a sponsor of Red Sox baseball, Volvo's rolled out a special edition of its stubby C30. The Kammback hatch comes with a factor......

Geneva 2008: Volvo XC60 softroads in style

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Volvo XC60.Volvo's entrance into the ever-expanding crossover segment was finally revealed here in Geneva when the wraps were pulled off the new XC60. The swoopy, Swedish cute 'ute will make its way Stateside later this year powered by the turbocharged T6, p......

15 millionth Volvo rolls off the assembly line

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Click on the image above to view in high resolution It took over 80 years, but Volvo has hit a mega milestone with the production of its 15,000,000th vehicle. The big number was hit with a C70 convertible, which rolled off the assembly line yesterday in Uddevalla, Sweden.Although Volvo started as SK......

Not keeping it in the family: Volvo AB not interested in buying Volvo cars

Sunday, July 15th, 2007
The rumors of Ford unloading Volvo have come to a standstill over the last couple of months, which is no surprise considering how valuable the square safety brand is to the livelihood of FoMoCo. The idea that a Swedish consortium might be interested in taking Volvo off of Ford's hands has already be......