Corvette Chief Engineer Retires
Corvette Chief Engineer David Hill will retire in January, leaving behind a legacy of the highest-performing Corvettes ever manufactured. photo courtesy GM David Hill, chief engineer for the Corvette,...
View ArticleOpel-ized division’s SUV gets its own model
Wasn’t it just a month or so ago that I professed amazement at the lack of Saturn models on the small-scale die-cast landscape? The division is nearing its 20th birthday, and yet you’d never know it...
View ArticleAutomotive history in the making: GM death watch?
GM submitted a plan to Congress today asking for up to $12 billion in federal loans as well as a $6 billion line of credit that the company could draw on as needed. GM says it would repay its debts by...
View ArticleRIP, Robert C. Stempel
Longtime GM executive Bob Stempel, who rose to the rank of GM CEO in the Nineties, died Monday at his home in Florida at the age of 77. Most of the obituaries note that Stempel was ousted as GM’s...
View ArticleCars of Futures Past – 1991 Saturn SL
1991 Saturn SL sedan. Photos courtesy GM Media Archives. By the early 1980s, General Motors had finally begun to accept that its small car lineup wasn’t particularly competitive with models from...
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