The Detroit-based automaker said engineers recently achieved an 11.93-second/116-mile per hour quarter-mile elapsed time run in a showroom-stock Camaro ZL1 automatic. A Camaro ZL1 manual ran an 11.96-second ET at 117 mph.
In Europe, GM lost $256 million before taxes, versus a $5 million gain a year ago, and it took a $590 million charge due to ”goodwill impairment” related to a change in pension values.
Q1 shows GM forgoing sales to keep lid on incentives; strains from MPG gains; Marchionne on Dan Knott: ‘He made a difference.’
While GM’s Q1 profit falls, North America improves; U.S., China, spur BMW ‘records’; Mom drives Nissan ad
According to Ford, nearly all of the 2,100 employees in Saline will be offered employment and 500 people are expected to be employed at the DMS facility in Detroit.
GM, Ford slide in their home market as one rival comes back and Chrysler carries on; Toyota’s strategy for May; Honda stuck in neutral
One in five American drivers are interested in autonomous vehicles, according to a recent report.
Smart soars, Mitsubishi sinks in a month of many story lines; more Ecoboosts for Ford, diesels for VW; BMW tests Olympic torch
Toyota is back. It’s putting a year of earthquake-related shortages behind it and grabbing sales from stumbling General Motors and Ford.
Toyota prepares to build the next-gen Prius in N.A. by 2015, VW sets U.S. April sales pace; 67 Ford stores are certified to sell EVs.

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