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GM to add XFE models to full-size pickup and SUV, 15 mpg city/21 mpg hwy 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In a bid to try and salvage some sales from the rapidly deflating full size truck market, General Motors has decided to add XFE models to its big pickups and SUVs. As with the Cobalt XFE the new label is short for Xtra Fuel Economy. While the new XFE models don't come close to matching the mileage ...

Chevy Silverado hybrid gets official with the EPA 21mpg city/22mpg hwy 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The EPA has posted the official mileage numbers for the new Two-Mode hybrid variants of the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks. The open bed crew-cab hybrid trucks scored the same numbers as their full bodye SUV siblings. The rear wheel drive models came in at 21/22 mpg city/hwy ...

Next Chevy Equinox to be equipped with a 2.3L DI 4 cylinder 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The automotive world will be getting a new Chevy Equinox bestowed upon it for the 2009 model year, and news from General Motors now places a 2.3L direct-injected four-cylinder engine underhood. Currently, the Equinox comes equipped with a boat-anchor of a base engine in the form of a 185-horsepower ...

GM to cut truck production by 300K units by 2009, cuts V8 development 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for more images of the 2007 Chevy Silverado We have been covering the amazing decline of the pickup truck in America over the past few months, but General Motor's recent announcement that it will be cutting truck production by some three-hundred-thousand units by next year puts quite a ...

New GM ads focus on fuel economy 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

GM has decided that the fuel economy of its vehicles should be the main focus in its advertising, rather than attempts to merely buff its battered brand image. Even the luxury line, Cadillac, is talking up miles per gallon in its new ads. Take the CTS, for instance. Please. It is capable of a ...

GM hybrid finally starting to get a little traction, 1,149 in June 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

With five hybrid models on the market now and at least four more coming before the end of the year, General Motors' hybrid sales are looking less ugly than they did in the first three months of 2008. GM is still no threat to Toyota or even Ford, but sales have been steady (if slow) for the last ...

GM to proceed with plans to build hybrid pickups in Oshawa 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In spite of the recent announcement by General Motors that it will close the Oshawa, Ontario truck plant in 2009, the company will proceed with production of hybrid pickup trucks there this fall. GM has already installed equipment and trained assembly workers to assemble the Two-Mode hybrid GMC ...

GM delays introduction of next generation large trucks 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

With sales of full size pickup trucks and SUVs shrinking far faster than even the most pessimistic industry projections one year ago, GM has decided to delay the successor to the current GMT900 models. The current generation of large trucks debuted in 2007 and were scheduled to be replaced in 2013. ...

Top 5 hybrid SUVs available today, number 5: Chevy Tahoe/GMC Yukon 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click the Tahoe hybrid for a high-res gallery There are plenty of dissenters who believe that the full-size hybrids from General Motors don't deserve any sort of green recognition at all. We can understand their argument, especially considering that the fuel mileage of these monsters is less than ...

Full-size SUVs from GM to get lighter 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for more high-res shots of the Chevy Tahoe Hybrid It was only a few years ago that General Motors was bullish on the U.S. market for full-size, body-on-frame sport utility vehicles. Today? Not so much. These days, the bottom has fallen out of the big truck market, as even the once ...

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