Filed under: Buick, Cadillac, GM, GMC, HUMMER, Pontiac, Saab, Rumormill
This has been a big year for GM’s organization alignment, with President Fritz Henderson opening up about the brand issue snafu and the appointment of four brand czars. HUMMER was meant to join forces with Cadillac and Saab in a premium channel, but while HUMMER is still in the family, it’s apparently been put out on the lawn. GM Inside News (GMI) reports that GM is treating HUMMER as a goner, saying that the H4 program is on life support for handover to the next buyer, and the H3 GMT-700 program is kaput.
The bigger hearsay is that GM’s board is considering euthanizing GMC or Pontiac. Those two brands were to be aligned in a brand channel with Buick (PBG). Getting rid of GMC could make some kind of sense, since it’s entirely brand-engineered vehicles with some of the worst mileage numbers in the fleet. Shunning Pontiac would be a surprise to us since the Solstice and G8 have given it a nice brand awareness boost and it’s got some products in the pipeline. If GMC or Pontiac did go, the GM board would consider folding Saturn into the PBG channel to maintain sales volume. In corporate-speak, we believe this is called GM’s “gloves off” phase. Thanks for the tip, Dan!
[Source: GM Inside News]
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Motorsports, Podcasts, Coupes, Sedans/Saloons, BMW, Cadillac, Ford, Jaguar, Celebrities, Special/Limited Editions
We’re back for a fifth week in a row, a recent record at the very least. Chris, Sam, and Dan edge us ever closer to number 100 with Autoblog Podcast #98. Of note this week, we cover the new SVT Truck from Ford, whatever it’ll be called, as well as BMW’s Light Visionary Model, the Le Mans finish, burnouts in a CTS-V, and the impending tumble into a gaping chasm of suck into which NBC might soon take us when the U.S.-spec Top Gear debuts. A stroll through the Autoblog Garage is in there, too, plus the usual insight and witticisms. Please keep the emails rolling in to podcast at autoblog dawt com with comments and suggestions, especially any good ideas for
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Spy Photos, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Chevrolet, Celebrities
So a couple of weeks ago we asked you to help us identify a mystery car on the set of Transformers 2. Quite a few of you guessed it was some sort of Corvette concept, or the C7 Corvette due in 2010. For those of you who guessed Corvette concept, you were right. The picture above is that concept, and according to speculation it is getting some paint work done in the house of Chip Foose. We don’t know if these pics were taken before or after the car’s closeup, but we hope it was afterward and that GM is getting ready to actually show us the car. Jalopnik’s also got pics of Bumblebee getting paint work done in the same shop. It’s a much yellower Bumblebee than the orange one seen on the TF2 set, and word is it could be a Z/28… or it could be a package you’d order from… Saleen? Click the link for the photos and gossip.
[Source: Jalopnik]
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