Automotive The Racket

Brands tend increasingly to globalization, and one of the strongest is betting that General Motors, especially with its Chevrolet brand. Now the plan seems to be the launch of two new low cylinder Ecotec engines ahead of the next three years.

Would be three petrol engines and four-cylinder 1.0 and 1.5 liters respectively , being as light as possible and using technologies like direct fuel injection, turbos or the possibility of running on alternative fuels.

GM is working on these engines together with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC), Shanghai General Motors (SGM) and Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC). These engines will be global, and will probably ride in small cars are marketed to the end of the decade. It is clear as many manufacturers have realized that it needed less dependence on oil and reducing CO2 emissions, basically what is being done in Europe long ago, not long ago across the pond.

Definitely, Hummer has closed. We smelled it and more from the Chinese government approved the purchase of Hummer by Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery worth 150 million dollars.

Today was the deadline, and there are no other offers, Hummer, known for its mammoth models, a symbol of excess and ostentation (pictured, if it was not clear), check your blind. Jim Taylor, CEO of Hummer will have to find another job and dealers will have to purchase the concession for another brand or simply stop selling these tragagasofas if they sell more than one brand. Although the worst part is carried by the 3650 employees of the firm will not know what the future holds.

With this there are now four companies, one way or another, have disappeared from General Motors. Saab has recently been sold to China Geely Group, while the legendary Saturn and Pontiac have suffered the same fate as Hummer.

If you want a Hummer this may be your chance, because GM has about 2,200 units in stock to settle with some juicy discounts like $ 4000 H3 variant 2010, or 5000 of the H3T, 2009 or 6000 of the H2 and H3 also 2009, in addition to finance the vehicle to 72 months without interest. The existing safeguards are respected and a lot of parts.

If the intention is very nice and the look of the Volt is reminiscent of attractive five-door Malibu Maxx, but I think Chevrolet is still far from providing a really sensible proposal for an electric car.

It seems that GM did not want at all to market an electric vehicle, but it does so many people buy a BlackBerry, although he does not see the utility and do not believe in his performance, is fashionable and others already have one.

If GM really believed in the concept of an environmentally friendly vehicle from zero or low emissions, would focus on raising the battery life achieves only a measly 60 km, but the real irony is that the Volt relies on a motor of 1.4 internal combustion to rotate a generator that feeds the battery once it is downloaded.

That’s where people are asking (not the people of GM, of course):

* Why not just a gasoline engine 1.4 and you? It would save space and weight of the battery and the car would perform better!

* Why not reduce the gasoline engine to 1 liter or less and is used in electric rear axle configuration and gasoline in front? Read the rest of this entry →

General Motors has recently announced they have discovered a problem, something so sad now discovered security-the Cadillac CTS and CTS-V manufactured between 2009 and 2010, so a good number of them U.S. will have to go to the dealership .

Detected fault in a collision is relatively strong knees of the person who will co-pilot would impact almost certainly, but this case occurs obviously only if that person go without a seat-belt.

Since GM has given the order to modify the board as necessary to avoid the blow. These are expected to draw cars on 20 October.

Recently it was revealed that General Motors plans to sell the Chevrolet Volt / Opel Ampera in China but under the name of the Buick brand, which is very popular in China market.

GM introduced the China Patent Office Ampera Opel artwork which underpin the new Buick still know the name of the model (Ohm Buick does not sound bad).

It is expected that the model for the Chinese market will be manufactured at the plant in Michigan, by the logic of not having to adapt new production lines and the Buick because XX is not expected to succeed like the Volt.