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GM Hires Joel Ewanick from Nissan to Lead Marketing
By Chris Haak GM announced today that its head of marketing, Susan Docherty, is now its former head of marketing. Prior to that, Ms....
Suburban Memories on its 75th Anniversary
By Chris Haak GM's long-running Suburban - which made its debut in 1935 as the Suburban Carryall - is celebrating its semisesquicentennial...
April Sales Results are Good, Not Great
By Chris Haak The auto industry still has a big, big hole to dig out of to get anywhere close to the volumes of the peak years earlier in...
Review: 2010 Kia Forte Koup SX
By Chris Haak Have you ever seen a photo of a person who appears at a glance to be really attractive, only to see the person later in the...
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Toyota’s Third Quarter Sales Trail GM’s
Toyota Motor Corp. announced today that it had sold 2.34 million vehicles globally in the third quarter (from July to September), as GM...
Nissan GT-R Photos and Specs Released
By Chris Haak10.17.2007Another embargo bit the dust yesterday, when images of the December 2007 Motor Trend cover were leaked online...
OnStar Announces Stolen Vehicle Cutoff Device
By Chris Haak10.09.2007In a move that can be construed as either very comforting or very disturbing, depending on one's perspective, GM and...
Maybach Hasn’t Played Out As Expected
By Chris Haak10.05.2007The recently renamed Daimler AG's ultra-expensive, ultra-luxurious division, Maybach, was launched with great...
Ethanol Boom Slowing Down
Ethanol has often been in the news for the past year or two as a much-hyped alternative to gasoline for fueling our motor vehicle fleet....
GM Signs $800 million Export Deal With China
By Chris Haak09.25.2007GM announced today that it has signed an agreement with Shanghai General Motors, one of its joint venture partners,...
Dealers Still Advertising Higher 2007 Fuel Economy Ratings
By Chris Haak09.20.2007A breathless, critical report has been issued by CNW Marketing research stating that Toyota dealers are still...
Furor Grows Over Dealership CSI Scores
By Chris Haak09.20.2007Michael Karesh, an occasional contributor to this site and owner of TrueDelta, an automotive research firm,...
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Review: 2011 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen TDI
I just finished reviewing a large, seven-passenger Chrysler Town & Country minivan, and now find myself moving onto my next task. In...
Review: 2011 Lexus GS 460
By Roger Boylan It was no hardship driving a V8-powered 2011 Lexus GS460 for a week. The hardship was watching it being driven away. That...
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Beijing Auto Show: BMW Concept Gran Coupé
By Chris Haak Back in 2007, BMW used the occasion of the Shanghai Motor Show (obviously in China) to debut its Concept CS, which was BMW's...
Is GM Overhyping its “Loan Repayment?”
By Chris Haak Since Wednesday, GM has been making a big deal about its repayment of the remaining $5.8 billion balance of government loans...
Beijing Auto Show: Ford Start Concept with 3-Cylinder...
By Chris Haak If you haven't already noticed, several of us at Full Metal Autos are big fans of Ford's 3.5 liter, 350+ horsepower EcoBoost...
Beijing Auto Show: Chevrolet Volt MPV5 Crossover Concept
By Chris Haak Last week, the sleuths at GM Inside News stumbled upon a design patent drawing for a crossover that seemed to basically have...