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GM assembly line workers are staying away from the Wentzville, Missouri, pickup assembly plant as COVID-19 cases increase. Since the start of July cases have more than tripled in St. Charles County where the Wentzville Assembly Plant is located. Cases are near 4,000 per week while they were only 1,100 a month ago. To make …

The Holden brand was GM’s Australian manufacturing arm forever. But GM has been retracting for years. First, it sold its Opel brand in Europe, and then it killed the Holden brand last February. But now it has done a partial reversal and started another company. It’s called GMSV (General Motors Specialty Vehicles). And the Aussies …

Let’s celebrate the lengths GM will go for a bit of hype. What we all want from the upcoming refreshed 2021 Chevy Silverado is a new fascia. Oh, and a better interior. What we’ll get is something that serves little purpose that no one wants. That would be a six-position tailgate with a secret seventh …

GM’s Chevy Tahoe and Suburban full-size SUVs are just now trickling into dealerships. The coronavirus pushed back GM’s schedules but it is full steam ahead right now. The GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade are soon to follow. These are the real moneymakers for GM. combined with the Silverado and Sierra they are funding all of …

It’s a bit hard to understand why GM thinks it has such a compelling racketeering case against Fiat Chrysler. That’s because it has been denied a second time. The lawsuit was denied by a federal judge who called it “too speculative.” The case was dismissed with prejudice in July. Judge Paul Borman called it a …

With Labor Day coming and summer almost over those yearly incentives, car manufacturers rely on to move the iron are upon us. But this year Chevy is taking a different approach. As Ram trucks beat out Chevy for the number two slot in sales last year the folks at Chevy are mad. The combination of …

When GM and Ford first announced they were abandoning sedans to double down on pickup trucks and SUVs, you knew it was a bad idea. All you needed to know was that the Japanese, Korean, and European car companies did not follow suit. That was two years ago. Now that it has happened only Chrysler …

Do you have a Buick Enclave, Chevy Traverse, GMC Arcadia, Chevy Silverado, or other related GMC SUVs and trucks? If so, you may need to take your vehicle in for maintenance due to having airbag issues.  Recall for GMC, Chevy, Cadillac, and Buick SUVs/trucks  The vehicles affected by this recent recall include the 2020 GMC …

It’s no secret that Tesla’s valuation and the ease at which it can gain investors have GM and Ford mad. GM went so far as to hold a dog and pony show preview of the next three year’s products to a select group of finance and Wall Street shakers. Now GM CEO Mary Barra is …

With a lawsuit that was dismissed back in June GM is doubling down on what it claims are ills committed by cross-town rivals Fiat Chrysler. This has been going on for decades but now it seems to have accelerated into the 2020s with more relevance. GM sued Fiat Chrysler back in 2019 alleging corrupt union …

Every move and indication that GM has recently announced signals the end of production for the Camaro, and Cadillac CT4 and CT5. The latest is that the Grand River Lansing assembly plant is slated to be converted into producing new GM BEVs by 2024. Grand River is where the Camaro is exclusively manufactured. It’s also …

We’ve heard GM execs wax on and on about GM’s electric future but we’re not seeing it much. We know the Hummer is coming back as an all-electric GMC SUV but there has got to be more than that. Chevy has the Bolt, and there will soon be a variant of it. We hope it …

The beginning of the end of General Motors has been pinned on many things. Badge engineering; the use of a single car trimmed in various ways to fool the public into thinking they’re different was GM’s Achilles heel. In a zeal to glomb as much from a single platform as possible, it took everything it …

Pundits sometimes try to pin down exactly when GM began its downhill slide into sub-mediocracy. Really, it was cumulative, one mistake stacked on another. In 2010 it all caught up and bankruptcy was the only solution if you can call that a solution? Mistakes are like shooting fish in a barrel, but we’ll point to …

Two of GM’s US truck plants have seen a big rise in COVID-19 cases, leading to tension inside the plants and with the union. The plants are Arlington Assembly in Texas, and Wentzville Assembly in Missouri. GM builds its midsize pickups and full-size vans at Wentzville. Its redesigned full-size SUVs at assembled at Arlington. The …

It would be really scary to have the hood of your truck open up while you’re driving. You wouldn’t be able to see in front of you at all, and it would increase the risk of crashing. That’s exactly what some General Motors truck owners have been dealing with recently. Two recalls issued by the …

Quick, name the two things Chevy needs to fix on its Silverado pickups? It’s an easy question; the blandtastic interiors and that ridiculous fascia. We think Chevy has been bluffing about how popular its new trucks are. All trucks are popular, but Chevy lost ground last year to Ram when it slipped to third place. …

GM's newest engine is being marketed as the perfect engine for trucks. So why is that this engine can be found in a Cadillac?

Worst Car Wednesday will delve into how and why some truly horrible mass-produced cars were ever created. We set the stage and report on how consumers reacted and what the manufacturers did to “fix” their mistakes. Look, we know there are fans for some of these creations. We are some of those fans. But the …

GM is one of the largest automakers in the world; however, that doesn't mean everything it does is successful.