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2015 GMC Yukon Family Designed for Safety and Security -- including Segment's First Front-Center Air Bag

2015 GMC Yukon Family Designed for Safety and Security -- including Segment's First Front-Center Air Bag

The new, 2015 GMC Yukon models are equipped with new standard and available driver-alert technologies that add layers of crash-avoidance protection, as well as enhanced occupant protection in the event a crash occurs. They include the segment’s only front-seat center air bag (front bucket-seat models), which is de ... Continue reading

Car Insurance Costs - Least and Most Expensive Models

Car Insurance Costs - Least and Most Expensive Models

By Jeffrey Steele, Insure.com - Last updated: Feb. 21, 2014 If you want to save money on auto insurance, spring for an SUV or minivan. Insure.com's annual ranking of the vehicles with the best car insurance rates is dominated by non-sedans. A few years ago, minivans held a good grip on our "least expensive to insure" r ... Continue reading

2015 GMC Yukon Lineup is More Capable, More Efficient and More Refined

2015 GMC Yukon Lineup is More Capable, More Efficient and More Refined

– The all-new 2015 Yukon, Yukon XL and flagship Yukon Denali models deliver greater capability and refinement, greater performance, new fold-flat rear seats and a quieter interior. They’re also better-connected, with next-generation IntelliLink. Bold styling and advanced technologies – including new safe ... Continue reading

Chevy Tahoe, Suburban and GMC Yukon models achieve nearly 10 percent gain on highway

Chevy Tahoe, Suburban and GMC Yukon models achieve nearly 10 percent gain on highway

The new 2015 full-size SUVs from Chevrolet and GMC go farther on a tank of gas than outgoing models, raising highway fuel economy by nearly 10 percent. The Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban and GMC Yukon and Yukon XL with the standard 5.3L engine get an EPA-estimated 16 mpg in the city and 23 mpg on the highway with two-whe ... Continue reading

Eight Dependability award recipients cover Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac brands

Eight Dependability award recipients cover Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac brands

GM brands place 13 models among Top 3 in their segments All GM brands score at or above industry average DETROIT – General Motors has more segment award recipients than any other automaker in the J.D Power 2014 Vehicle Dependability Study, doubling last year’s segment awards from four to eight across its four ... Continue reading

GM Engineers Get Firsthand Dealership Experience

GM Engineers Get Firsthand Dealership Experience

DETROIT – Engineers behind the Chevrolet Corvette, Cadillac CTS, GMC Sierra and Buick Enclave are learning on dealership sales floors and in service bays what customers like and dislike about the cars and trucks they helped create. So far, the General Motors’ Professional Development Assignment has dispatched ... Continue reading

Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra HD Pickups Ready to Haul

Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra HD Pickups Ready to Haul

DETROIT – Defining the all-new 2015 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra heavy-duty pickups comes down to four words: Strong, smart, capable and comfortable. The 2015 Silverado HDs are the heavy lifters in Chevrolet’s three-truck strategy, which includes the all-new 2014 Silverado 1500 and, later this year, the ... Continue reading

GMC Heads to the 2014 Pro Bowl and Super Bowl XLVIII

GMC Heads to the 2014 Pro Bowl and Super Bowl XLVIII

The National Football League postseason is in full swing and so is GMC’s support as the Official Vehicle of the NFL. Along with providing vehicles in and around New York City for the Super Bowl XLVIII, GMC will host U.S. military and their families for the 2014 Pro Bowl, where each of the game’s most valuable ... Continue reading

Court Decision Could Significantly Impact All GMAC Automobile Dealer Financing Agreements

Court Decision Could Significantly Impact All GMAC Automobile Dealer Financing Agreements

A ruling in a Missouri case involving GMAC, Inc. and an automobile dealer could tremendously increase dealer’s legal rights who are floorplanned by GMAC. This decision could impact more than 3,000 dealers currently holding GMAC floorplan agreements. “There is a significant difference between a demand agreemen ... Continue reading

2015 Canyon Reveal Remarks by Mary Barra and Mark Reuss

2015 Canyon Reveal Remarks by Mary Barra and Mark Reuss

MARY BARRA Hello. It's good to have you with us. On behalf of everyone at General Motors I'd like to welcome you to the Motor City and the 2014 North American International Auto Show. I am honored to stand up here tonight and humbled to lead the global GM team. It's a team I'm very proud to be part of… a team of m ... Continue reading

All-New 2015 GMC Canyon Elevates Midsize Truck Segment

All-New 2015 GMC Canyon Elevates Midsize Truck Segment

DETROIT – GMC revealed the 2015 Canyon today, an all-new midsize truck that redefines the segment and raises the bar for everything from horsepower and efficiency to quietness and refinement. When it goes on sale this year, the all-new Canyon will give GMC one of the only three-truck lineups in the industry. It is ... Continue reading

GMC Colorado Debuts at 2014 NAIAS Detroit Auto Show +VIDEO

GMC Colorado Debuts at 2014 NAIAS Detroit Auto Show +VIDEO

DETROIT - January 12, 2014: The new 2015 GMC Canyon midsize pickup makes its world debut Sunday, January 12, 2014, on the eve of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. The Canyon is expected to deliver a segment best 193 horsepower and payload of at least 1,450 pounds. Production of the Canyon ... Continue reading

All Four GM Brands Gained Retail Market Share Overall for 2013, Down 6% from Last December

All Four GM Brands Gained Retail Market Share Overall for 2013, Down 6% from Last December

General Motors Co. dealers delivered 2.8 million vehicles in the United States in 2013. Retail sales increased 11 percent and total sales were up 7 percent compared with 2012. Dealers delivered 230,157 vehicles in December, down 6 percent versus a year ago. Retail sales were down 6 percent and fleet sales were down 9 p ... Continue reading

Most Popular Cars and Trucks USA in 2013

Most Popular Cars and Trucks USA in 2013

2013 was the year of the full-size truck, according to new car shoppers on AutoTrader.com®. Trucks made up nearly half of the top 20 most popular new vehicles on the site this year, including three of the top five. Aligning with its longstanding status as the best-selling vehicle in the U.S., the Ford F-150 retained i ... Continue reading

IIHS Highest 2014 Top Safety Pick Award Earned By Twenty-Two Vehicles +VIDEO

IIHS Highest 2014 Top Safety Pick Award Earned By Twenty-Two Vehicles +VIDEO

ARLINGTON, Va. — Twenty-two vehicles earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's highest safety award for 2014, Top Safety Pick+, thanks to a high level of protection in crashes and the availability of front crash prevention technology to avoid many collisions in the first place. An additional 17 earn Top Sa ... Continue reading

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