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REPORT: GM's next-gen SUVs to be body-on-frame (otherwise they'd be crossovers)

The GMT900 platform is by far the highest volume chassis General Motors has here in the States, as it underpins the Chevrolet Silverado, Tahoe, Avalanche and Suburban, the Cadillac Escalade/Escalade ESV, and the GMC Sierra, Yukon and Yukon XL. We never had any doubt that GM would continue to build body-on-frame trucks in the future, but with demand for SUVs shrinking quickly, some thought the body-on-frame SUV would soon be a thing of the past. Maybe not. Our friends over at Pickuptrucks.com are reporting that the next generation of the ... Read more →

GM recalls Camaro, Traverse, SUVs/pickups for various issues Jonathon Ramsey

General Motors and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have announced a suite of recalls for the Chevrolet Camaro, Traverse and various body-on-frame SUVs and pickups (Cadillac's ...

Review: 2009 Chevy Tahoe LTZ 6.2L 4x4 Sam Abuelsamid

For a long time, gas prices in the United States were literally cheaper than dirt. Seriousl – check out the price of a bag of top soil at your local home improvement store. With such low ...

Tahoe, Yukon and Escalade not being replaced Jeremy Korzeniewski

The full-size SUV's future is on shaky legs and now, reports have surfaced that General Motors has killed the next generation Tahoe and Yukon 'utes, just weeks after announcing it would shutter its ...

GM closing Wisconsin SUV plant early, doors closed by end of year Chris Shunk

General Motors has announced that it wil close its SUV plant in Janesville, Wisconsin by the end of this year in response to the woeful market for utility vehicles. The plant produces the GMC Yukon ...

Review: 2008 Toyota Sequoia Limited 1 year ago on Autoblog

Gigantor. The 2008 Toyota Sequoia arrives humongously revised from the already beefy first-generation. The Timberland Mica (Metallic Green) example that Toyota lent us for a week definitely deserves whatever size-related superlatives you can dream up. It's big, it's powerful, it doesn't sip ...

LA 2007: Lutz and Peper show off Chevy's high efficiency fleet 2 years ago on Autoblog

Promising the best possible fuel economy for whichever type of vehicle its customers choose, GM's Bob Lutz and Ed Peper trotted a full lineup of green vehicles from their arsenal. The Aveo5, Impala E85, Malibu Hybrid, Tahoe Hybrid, Silverado Hybrid, Volt, Equinox Fuel Cell, Beat and Groove were ...

Will the real Tahoe/Yukon Hybrid MSRP please stand up? 2 years ago on Autoblog

Hybrid vehicles still don't make much sense for automakers. The cost of the technology is more than what consumers are willing to pay and in many cases the fuel-saving benefits can be achieved with a simple diesel motor (at least in Europe). Because of this, coming up with the right sticker price ...

Overtime is done at six GM plants 2 years ago on Autoblog

Vehicle sales are slow throughout the US right now, and a slumping housing market coupled with high gas prices means that trucks and SUVs are being hit extremely hard in particular. Large truck and SUV sales are down 9% through July year over year, and GM has halted overtime at six locations to ...

Third-row seats new target for thieves 2 years ago on Autoblog

SUV owners love the flexibility that their removable or stowable third-row seats afford them, and thieves have taken note. A growing number of third-row seats are being stolen and sold at swap meets, and the removable seats on the Chevy Tahoe are one of the main targets. Chevy designers made the ...

Want a hybrid Tahoe/Yukon? GM will help you buy one 2 years ago on Autoblog

Bob Lutz has apparently climbed down from the parapet of passing all costs onto the consumer... that is, when it comes to green tech. In fact, GM appears to be considering subsidizing the cost of its hybrids for consumers. The world's number two automaker has three hybrid transmissions in the ...

Caddy considers adding hybrids to the mix 2 years ago on Autoblog

The combination of high gas prices and a sales slowdown at Cadillac have caused the heads of GM's luxury division to consider adding a hybrid to the mix. During an interview with the Detroit News, John Howell, Caddy's head product honcho was quoted as saying that, "Pretty much every program I am ...

Lutz lets a bit of Edmunds survey slip, GM takes 13 first place picks 2 years ago on Autoblog

Sometimes news is just too good to keep to yourself. Just ask GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. With his company supposedly claiming 13 spots on Edmund's Consumers' Most Wanted list, Lutz just had to brag a bit on the corporate blog before the winners were made public. And he should brag. Most other car ...

AutoblogGreen First Drive: Chevy Tahoe Two-Mode Hybrid 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/hardware/First_driving_impression_of_the_new_Chevy_Tahoe_Two_Mode_Hybrid'; On any given Sunday morning, if I were offered the keys to either a Saturn Sky or a Chevy Tahoe with a big boat hitched to the back, 110 times out of a hundred I would put down that ...

America's Game, America's Truck: Rawlings baseball trim for Chevy trucks 2 years ago on Autoblog

Remember when Audi rolled out the baseball leather interior on the original TT convertible? That was nothing. For the real baseball fans, aftermarket trim specialists Katzkin Leather and sports equipment outfitter Rawlings have teamed up to offer a full, authentic baseball trim package for ...

GM to give Chrysler some GMT900 love? 2 years ago on Autoblog

Last evening, a source privy to the talks between Chrysler and GM, revealed to the New York Times that the General may be sharing its GMT900 SUV platform with the American half of the German-American hybrid. Since Chrysler doesn't have a large SUV in its line-up (the Durango doesn't make the cut), ...

GM releases pics of Z71 package on GMT900 SUVs 2 years ago on Autoblog

Without so much as an accompanying press release, General Motors released a slew of new images yesterday that show us what the Z71 off-road package looks like on two of the three GMT900 model SUVs. The Avalanche, Tahoe and Suburban are available with a Z71 package that adds, of course, the Z71 ...

Chevy's arresting 2007 Police Tahoe 3 years ago on Autoblog

Chevy is out there touting its 2007 Police Tahoe, which is apparently the first SUV that was designed to be a law-enforcement machine from the very beginning. Granted, many of the features that make it a good police truck are part of what make the new GMT900 SUVs good vehicles anyway, but it still ...

Carnegie Mellon and GM entering driverless Tahoe in next DARPA 3 years ago on Autoblog

Remember William "Red" Whittaker? He is the ex-marine turned college prof that competed in both the 2004 and 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge with a pair of autonomous H1 HUMMERs named H1ghlander and Sandstorm. Unfortunately for Red, neither HUMMER was able to beat Stanley, the autonomous Volkswagen ...

GM supplying MTV with fleet of custom E85 vehicles and Chip Foose Tahoe Concept 3 years ago on Autoblog

General Motors has teamed up with the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards to supply the event with a fleet of 60 E85 capable Chevy Tahoe, Avalanche and Suburban vehicles. The fleet will be used to transport "talent" (we use that term loosely) to the event and also get the word out about the first E85 ...

Spy Shots: GM's large SUVs get racier 3 years ago on Autoblog

UPDATE: Spy shots are GMT900 Hybrid versions. The aero gear isn't for looks, but supposedly improves aerodynamics and boosts fuel economy. Our automotive compatriot over at Winding Road, Chris Paukert, procured spy shots of several aero-enhanced versions of the Tahoe and Yukon SUVs. The assumption ...

New Tahoes are sitting on lots longer 3 years ago on Autoblog

According to Power Information Network, a division of J.D. Power and Associates, GM's new GMT-900-based Tahoes are spending more time in the hands of dealers before finding a happy home in some suburbanite's garage. When the new Tahoe debuted in the market this past January, the average length of ...

Chevy Suburban with Z71 package surfaces 3 years ago on Autoblog

Some resourceful members of the GMInsideNews community managed to grab what appears to be official pics somewhere of a Chevy Suburban wearing the not-yet-released Z71 offroad package. Rather than being purely cosmetic, the Z71 package will add a host of real mechanical upgrades to the Suburban, ...

Flipped off! 2006 SUV rollover resistance improves greatly, says NHTSA 3 years ago on Autoblog

According to a new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration brief, SUVs are getting smarter about turning turtle. By its count, around seven out of every ten SUVs contain electronic stability control programs, reducing the likelihood of rollovers. In fact, nearly 70 percent of 2006 model year ...

GM invests another $170 million in shift to six-speed automatics 3 years ago on Autoblog

Announcing Tuesday a $170 million investment in GM Powertrain's Ypsilanti Transmission Operations and its satellite vendors and support infrastructure, General Motors made a strong commitment to its new family of six-speed automatic transmissions. The new investment follows the more than $450 ...

Cadillac Escalade leading charge as gas guzzlers flourishing despite fuel prices? 3 years ago on Autoblog

Despite all the carping about gasoline prices these days, sales of Cadillac's new Escalade and their ilk are boomin' louder than the gigawatt stereos they often house. So says MSNBC, which points out that despite post-Katrina price shocks and media outlets trumpeting hybrids and new small car ...

New Tahoe-sized Hyundai in the works 3 years ago on Autoblog

Brenda Priddy's all-seeing eye has caught the largest Hyundai passenger vehicle on earth traipsing around what appears to be the Southwest. Her keen eye again pegs the large SUV, officially called the Mesa after Kia's KCD-II Mesa Concept, at just a few inches shorter than a Tahoe. No honkin' V8 ...

Spy Photos: Chevy Silverado 3 years ago on Autoblog

Judging from this spyshot, the 2007 Silverado looks pretty much as expected-- a Chevy pick-up with a Tahoe front clip grafted on. Predictable or no, it's a much-needed plug for GM's reputation, for with the introduction of the 2007 Toyota Tundra, the Silverado and stablemate GMC ...

"Make Your Own Tahoe Commercial" debacle makes it onto Nightline 3 years ago on Autoblog

We’ve already reported on the fact that General Motors' “Make Your Own Tahoe Commercial” experiment has turned the General’s lumbering SUV into a slow-moving target for every environmentalist with a keyboard and high-speed internet connection. The news ran around the internet ...

2007 Chevrolet Tahoe LT: In the Autoblog Garage Day 5 3 years ago on Autoblog

It's now time to bring our review of the 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe LT to a close. We've looked over the fresh sheetmetal and crawled around the all-new interior, but before rendering a verdict we have to get behind the wheel and see if the redesigned SUV has the driving dynamics to back up its looks. ...

2007 Chevrolet Tahoe LT in the Autoblog Garage: Day 1-2 3 years ago on Autoblog

To grasp the importance of General Motors' new GMT900 full-size pickup and SUV platform, one only has to consider that its predecessor is responsible for over 10-percent of total annual new-vehicle sales in the US. The General's full-size SUVs move off the lot at a rate of ...

GM gives suppliers chance to profit from new truck line 3 years ago on Autoblog

In the world of automotive suppliers, the words "profit" and "General Motors" can seem almost mutually exclusive. The automaker is trying to change that by offering its "preferred" suppliers a chance to cash-in on the GMT900 program, with the top 20 suppliers making ...

General Motors already turning up production wick on new SUVs 3 years ago on Autoblog

In response to surprisingly heavy early demand for the new Chevrolet Tahoe, General Motors is calling on its suppliers for parts earlier-than-expected, in hopes of moving production schedules ahead for the company’s other GMT-900 platform SUVs. Sales for the Tahoe have been up nearly ...

General Motors stars on "The Apprentice" again 3 years ago on Autoblog

On Monday's "The Apprentice," contestants were charged with developing the "most entertaining training event" for Chevy dealers. Having been to a dealer training or two, we know they're interesting enough what with numerous demonstrations of the various features and options, ...

Tahoe takes off while full-size SUVs fall flat in February 3 years ago on Autoblog

It sounds a bit backwards, but GM execs are as pleased as punch that the market for full-size SUVs is dwindling rapidly at the same time their all-new 2007 Chevy Tahoe has gone on sale. While nearly every other manufacturer suffered a decline in full-size SUV sales during the month of February ...






Autoblog Podcast #157: Mike Levine trucks along with us.

Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com joins Chris, Sam, and Dan this week and gets a chance to talk about cars, too! 

 
 

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