truth about domestics

It was in 1960 that Chevrolet celebrated a class win at the 24 hours of Le Mans in a Corvette.  50 years later, GM has decided to decorate the very first production 2011 Corvette in colors matching the car that won at Le Mans.  The car will be up for a tax-deductible charity donation of around $385,000.  For more details and great shots of the car, head on over to CorvetteBlogger.com.

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The National Corvette Museum (NCM) is considered to be the largest of its kind, devoted to a single model – the Corvette, and is located adjacent to General Motors’ Corvette assembly plant. NCM is planning on building a fully featured race complex, consisting of two road courses, a kart track, a ten-acre autocross course, a skid-pad training area, and a quarter-mile drag strip. The track will be built to FIA and SCCA specifications, meaning that official racing events will take place there.

The newly planned development would be situated across freeway I65 from the museum. Access to the park will be via a tunnel and bridges going over the freeway.

Read more about it at the Motorsports Park website.

The video you see above is an advertisement to drum up excitement for GM’s newest small car, the Chevrolet Spark.  It’s an interesting idea…here’s to hoping the car sells!

The Chevrolet Cruze will be out later this year/early next year, but that hasn’t stopped the ads from rolling already.  Check out this one where a cricket ball and bat is used to “paint” a Cruze.

Check out the Chevrolet Cruze World Touring Car Championship…car being built in the time-lapse video above!

The Chevrolet Cruze is a much more appealing car than the current C-sizer from GM (the Cobalt.)  Chevy has decided to show off two trim packages for the Cruze, one being the Eco model and the other a sportier RS package.  The RS package is pretty self explanatory if you have been following the recent Camaro at all.  Checking the box on the options list for the RS package will get you fog lamps, rocker panel extensions and a rear spoiler.  The Eco model will probably grab more attention as automakers fight to show off their fuel economy supremacy.  The Eco model is said to hit 40 mpg on the EPA highway test circuit, but only time will tell if the car can actually hit those numbers.  For more details on both packages, check out Chevrolet’s official press release at Autoblog Green.

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GM has formed a new division.  The purpose of this group of 50 or so employees is to search the internet for complaints about GM products and do everything they can to rectify the situation.  Say a customer posts on Facebook that they are having transmission issues with their 2010 Cadillac.  This newly formed group at GM will find the complaint, and then try to contact that customer and get them hooked up with a service rep so that they can have the issue fixed.  I think this is another great example of how the culture at GM is changing for the better.  They are thinking ahead, trying to please customers again, and responding in a short and timely manner.  Maybe Toyota and Honda should try something like this…

For more details, head on over to Autoblog.

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Earlier this year we posted a story about General Motors adding a third shift at the Ingersoll, Ontario plant that builds the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain.  However, demand has proved to be so strong that more production capacity was needed.  Therefore, GM will expand the body shop at Ingersoll and then ship the body shells to the Oshawa, Ontario plant that builds the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro and Impala, where a third shift will build the Equinox.  All of the workers laid off at Ingersoll will be brought back, plus an additional 70 workers to help build the bodies.  Over at Oshawa, 600 employees will be reinstated, making this another victory for GM’s comeback.  For the full story, head on over to Autoblog.

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Check out this awesome video of a completely animated Camaro, Mustang, Jeep Cherokee, Vaz, and a helicopter. All I can say is…AMAZING, dude has talent!

General Motors has decided to release a bunch of new Corvette variants in order to keep customers happy.  Last year we saw the revival of the Grand Sport nameplate.  For 2011, Chevrolet is releasing 500 units labeled the Z06 Carbon.  This is basically a Z06 body on a ZR1 chassis, with carbon fiber body components thrown in to save weight.  The hood is the lightest ever featured on a Corvette they say, but it won’t fit on a ZR1 because of its inner structure.  For more details, head on over to Autoblog.

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