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  GM to introduce industry’s first front centre airbag

  30 September 2011 / 9 comments

  One more added on the safety item list. General Motors is set to introduce the industry’s first front center airbag, which is an inflatable restraint designed to help protect drivers and front passengers in far-side […]

   

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  General Motors opens new diesel engine plant in Thailand

  11 September 2011 / 43 comments

  General Motors has officially opened a new diesel plant in Rayong, Thailand. The new plant which is worth $200 million and is the company’s first diesel factory in region will be the first in the […]

   

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  Facelifted Chevrolet Captiva is here – 2.4 petrol, RM155k

  23 August 2011 / 60 comments

  UPDATE: Full gallery from the launch event added Naza Quest, distributor of Chevrolet vehicles in Malaysia, launched the facelifted Chevrolet Captiva at its Jalan Ampang showroom this afternoon. This introduction is the start of a […]

   

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  SAIC-GM to sell Chinese minivans in India by 2012

  19 August 2011 / 9 comments

  Chinese minivans are set to make their move into a new market – India. Reports say that General Motors and its Chinese partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp will start building the minivans in complete knockdown […]

   

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  Long live Corvette! GM pours $131m into Kentucky plant to support production of next generation car, due in 2013

  5 May 2011 / 5 comments

  The legendary Corvette name, around since the 50s, will live on after the current sixth-gen car expires. GM has announced that it will invest $131 million in the Bowling Green assembly plant to support production […]

   

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  Baojun 630 launched in China – sales begin this month

  20 April 2011 / 25 comments

  The announcement of the launch of the brand was made last November, with production of its first model beginning the same month. Now, five months on, GM’s newest car brand, Baojun, has officially launched the […]

   

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  China becomes GM’s largest market – 2.35 million units sold

  26 January 2011 / 5 comments

  For the first time in its 102-year history, General Motors’ largest market isn’t the United States, but China. The company sold more cars and trucks there than it did in the US in 2010, managing […]

   

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  Chevrolet Sonic hatchback and sedan launched at Detroit!

  10 January 2011 / 54 comments

  General Motors has released details and images of the new Aveo that will be unwrapped later at Detroit, just that it’s not called the Aveo, but Sonic. Like the car it replaces, the B-segment Sonic […]

   

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  2012 ‘Baby Buick’ Verano revealed ahead of Detroit debut

  7 January 2011 / 20 comments

  This is the “baby Buick” that will make its world debut at the upcoming Detroit Auto Show. Verano, as it is called, is a “compact sedan” (in US terms of course) based on General Motors’ […]

   

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  GM recalls over 110,000 crossovers over seatbelts

  20 December 2010 / 7 comments

  Now, will this be the last recall to close out 2010? General Motors is recalling 111,136 of its vehicles to rectify the seatbelts in them, and the recall involves 2011 versions of the company’s Theta […]

   

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  SAIC buys nearly 1% stake in GM through latter’s IPO

  19 November 2010 / 0 comments

  Shanghai Automotive Indstrial Corp, General Motor’s joint venture partner in China, has bought close to a 1% stake in GM through the latter’s initial public offering. SAIC said it had paid nearly US$500 million for […]

   

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  All-new Buick GL8 MPV launching this month in China

  12 November 2010 / 10 comments

  Buick is big in China, which tastes in automobiles lean more towards America than Europe or Japan (huge saloons are in, tiny city cars aren’t, for instance) . If you’ve stepped foot in Shanghai or […]

   

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  After 84 years, the final curtain falls on Pontiac

  1 November 2010 / 29 comments

  Over the weekend, an iconic American car brand made its journey from current to history. Pontiac, GM’s big name brand from the ’60s, finally went out of business on October 31, a year after the […]

   

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  Shanghai GM starts exporting Chevrolet New Sail to Chile

  25 October 2010 / 7 comments

  As mentioned earlier in the year, General Motors had export plans for its Chinese-made Chevrolet New Sail sedan. Now, the New Sail has set off for Chile, according to reports, though no details are available […]

   

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  Paris 2010: Chevrolet is the busiest GM brand in Paris – Aveo, Orlando and Cruze hatchback get world debuts

  5 October 2010 / 26 comments

  Chevrolet was easily the busiest GM brand in Paris with the world debuts of three models – the Cruze hatchback, Orlando MPV and the Aveo supermini. The former is Chevy’s attempt to swim with the […]

   

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