Chevrolet Hands Over Customized HHR To SimBim     ZÜRICH – August 29, 2008: Chevrolet has handed over the keys a very unique car to games developers, SimBim. They have now created the V-WTCC, which stands for Virtual World Touring Car Chamionship. A V-WTCC RaceRoom will be set up at six FIA WTCC events in Europe [...]

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Mr. Malcolm Simons, our favorite Service Manager, won at Redline Raceway last Friday.  He’s 8th in the points standing. MODIFIED Car # Name Total Points 1 4011 CIMAROLLI 620 2 LX03 JONES 560 3 4106 BOLTON 505 4 400N BOWERS 460 5 QX53 BONER 4056 LX2 6 BONER 350 7 RX40 JARVIS 340 8 Z407 [...]

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Craig Monahan’s Chevy truck is featured in an Olympics ad. Not many pickup trucks have melted headlights and turn indicators, so I figured it had to be my buddy’s Silverado that appeared in a Chevy commercial during the Olympics coverage. Sure enough, there was my pal Firefighter Craig Monahan beside the truck he had driven [...]

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Chevrolet announces performance results and pricing for the new ultimate-performance Corvette. DETROIT – The official Corvette ZR1 numbers are in and they’re good. Very good: •        $103,300 MSRP (including $850 destination charge) •        EPA-estimated fuel economy of 14 city and 20 highway •        0-60 mph in 3.4 seconds •        0-100 mph in 7.0 seconds • [...]

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                  8/12/2008, 12:04 a.m. EDT,  By DEE-ANN DURBIN,  The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. is releasing new, more fuel-efficient versions of its full-size pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles later this fall. The XFE — or extra fuel economy — versions of the 2009 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra [...]

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                Here are a few tips for hanging with the big rigs:   #1 – if there are three (or more) lanes per side of highway, trucks are 99% of the time banned from the farthest left lane. If you’re one of those people who plants your car in the center lane at the speed [...]

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           Beacon is a generic risk score developed by Equifax and Issac Fair that predicts the likelihood that an account will become seriously “delinquent” in the next 24 months. “Delinquent” can mean:    60 days late      90 + days late      Charge-off      Repossession    Bankrupt  Issac Fair also developed a generic risk score for Trans Union and Experian.    Beacon [...]

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             Road Rage is a serious issue. Avoid agressive drivers whenever possible, here are some signs to look for in a driver who may be “too mad to drive”. Signs of an Agressive Driver:  Yelling      Speeding      Tailgating      Hang gestures or facial gestures      Repeatingly honking horn      Passing on the left      Flashing headlights      Running top [...]

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Canwest News Service Published: Friday, August 08, 2008 When it was introduced at the North American International auto Show in Detroit in January, the 2009 Corvette ZR1′s power was estimated at 100 horsepower for each of its 6.2 litres of displacement. GM Powertrain has completed SAE certification of the ZR1′s supercharged LS9 V8 and the results [...]

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                                  What is it?    2009 Chevrolet Traverse    What’s special about it?  Let’s break it down. There’s a new full-size, unibody SUV platform in the house of the General, called the Lambda. GMC got a version, called the Acadia. Saturn called the one it got the Outlook. And Buick has received raves for its swoopy [...]

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   Jacqueline Mitchell 07.09.08, 12:01 AM ET A flashy new car with all the bells and whistles parks next to a beaten-up 20-year-older.                                             Which one is more attractive to a car thief?      Guess again.                       The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today released its Hot Wheels 2008 auto theft report for vehicles stolen in 2007, [...]

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   Earlier this week, the 2010 Camaro debuted to great reviews.  Many reporters and consumers expressed their amazement of how true the production model is to the concept.  They were also amazed to learn about the technology, safety and performance features included in the Camaro, the new definition of the 21st Century Sports Car.  Here [...]

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       From nicely equipped entry subcompacts to award-winning midsize sedans and a capable, compact SUV, General Motors offers plenty of choices for consumers who want to wring more miles out of a gallon of gas. Seventeen 2008 GM models — more than any other automaker — achieve EPA fuel economy of 30 miles per [...]

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Aug 2nd, 2008 by ZR1Vette Dave Ressler’s love of Corvettes is exceeded only by the depth of his pockets, and has paid $1 million for the very first ZR1, which has rolled off an assemby line into his driveway. Ressler, who’s been selling Chevys for 20 years, bought the car earlier this year at the [...]

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