January 2012 Auto SalesOff to a flying start.
After the strong finish to 2011, auto industry insiders were looking ahead to 2012 with great expectations. All were predicting a year of higher sales — for their own companies, naturally, but also for the industry overall. Most estimates were that sales could grow from 12.8 million units [...]
Filed under: Classics, Etc., Chevrolet, GM
The car that almost destroyed General Motors? That’s the title of a story recently published by Popular Mechanics all about the Chevrolet Vega. To be honest, there are a number of vehicles to which we could assign that ignominious title, but it’s hard to argue with the disaster that was [...]
Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Chevrolet, GM
Folks, there are bad ideas, and there ones that are legendary in their badness. Unfortunately for General Motors, it would appear that the automaker may very well be lobbying for its own wing in the Dumb Idea Hall of Fame. The New York Times reports that a memo distributed to workers [...]
Filed under: Videos, Chevrolet
Chevy’s Dept. 180 slo-mo footage – Click above to watch video after the jump
Chevrolet’s Dept. 180 video series follows Bowtie engineers as they test the quality of the brand’s vehicles by taking extreme measures, and there are some pretty interesting behind-the-scenes tidbits that make a Chevy a Chevy. But this vid is [...]
Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Chevrolet, UK, Design/Style
Chevrolet Spark DJ booth – click above to watch the video
Wherever feral youths congregate, it’s pretty much a given that there’ll be a car on its side. Now Chevrolet has gone and made that a certainty by creating a Spark that’s intended to be rotated 90 degrees [...]
