Chevrolet today revealed the new production Camaro, a heritage-inspired sports car for the 21st century, combining great looks and performance, advanced technology and surprising efficiency. Sales in the United States will begin in the first quarter of 2009. The European launch will follow later.

The rear-wheel-drive Camaro comes with two engine options - a V6 [...]

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§ Operating and related actions to generate approximately $10 billion in cash improvements
§ More than 20 percent reduction in salaried employment cash costs
§ Dividend on common stock suspended
§ Asset sales and capital market activities to raise $4-7 billion of additional liquidity
DETROIT – General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) today announced it is taking further [...]

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Its no secret that the U.S. auto market has become difficult for automakers in these days of $4 gasoline. GM is struggling with mounting losses and even the word bankruptcy has been mentioned by some analysts, although others call these concerns overblown. Nonetheless, besides bringing the Volt and more fuel- efficient cars to the market, [...]

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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp is rushing to finish the production version of its Chevy Volt and plans to unveil a showroom-ready model of the heavily touted electric car in September, people familiar with the project say.
 
Battered by a deepening slump in sales and concerns about whether it can ride out the downturn, GM [...]

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By Andrea Hopkins
 
LAWRENCEBURG, Indiana (Reuters) - Seven women pile out of a massive white Chevrolet Suburban and unload the vacuums, mops and buckets of their trade. Gasoline may cost $4 a gallon, but the Chevy’s driver and business owner Leesa Baldwin has no intention of downsizing to a smaller vehicle.

 
“I love my Suburban. I don’t [...]

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The mid-1970s Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu lived in a no-man’s land for Malibus, coming as it did after the legendary muscle-car Chevelles and Malibus of the late 1960s, and just before the popular ground-breaking Malibus that debuted in 1978. In that context, it’s difficult to argue that the mid-1970s Malibus were anything other than gutless, tawdry, [...]

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