With the NHTSA investigating Chevy Volt battery fires, the debut of the Opel/Vauxhall Ampera has been put on hold. If you ignore the price, we’re all in favour of the range extender hybrid option as the most elegant solution to electric cars. But new technology is not without its problems, as GM are finding out with the Chevy Volt. [...]
Over a year from the production reveal of the 2012 Chevrolet Aveo, Chevy announce the new Aveo will cost from £9,995 in the UK. It’s taken a very long time for the (now) 2012 Chevrolet Aveo to make it from production reveal - at Paris 2010 – to a reality in UK showrooms. But Chevy has finally got it together [...]
GM has revealed the Chevrolet Mi-ray Concept at the Seoul Motor Show, and open two seater with 2 electric motors and a 1.5 litre 4-pot turbo. GM are big in Korea, make no mistake. Well, South Korea, certainly. So big are Chevrolet in Korea that they rank only behind indigenous makers Kia and Hyundai, and Seoul is [...]
It’s been revealed that GM intends to sell the Chevy Volt alongside the Opel/Vauxhall Ampera in Europe – and at a lower price. They’ve been hyped for a very long time – the Chevy Volt and Vauxhall Ampera – and 2011 is the year that both hit the roads. You don’t have to be an out [...]
Chevrolet reveal the Chevrolet Cruze Hatch, due to be revealed at the Geneva Motor Show. And it seems to be the same Chevy Cruze Hatch they revealed at Paris. Chevrolet are working hard to make their offerings credible and appealing for Europe. Which we applaud. They’ve even gone so far as to brand a Chevy [...]
Chevrolet has announced price and model detail for the Chevy Orlando MPV. Starts at £16,395 and arrives in showrooms in Spring 2011. Chevrolet introduced their compact MPV – the Chevrolet Orlando – at this year’s Paris Motor Show as a tame version of the original Orlando Concept we saw back in 2008. It’s sort of [...]
The EPA has revealed that the Chevy Volt will average 37mpg on its range extender engine and 93mpg when in electric mode. Back in August 2009 we all had a good laugh at the astonishing claim from GM that the range extender Chevy Volt would do 230mpg. We speculated that GM must have based this figure on the Volt using [...]
CHEVROLET ICON DROPS ITS TOP Camaro Convertible unveiled at Los Angeles Show Well-tailored fabric top with acoustical headliner for quietness and easy-to-use single latch Robust, reinforced structure supports a sports coupe-like driving experience Better torsional stiffness than BMW 3-Series convertible Chevrolet has lifted the lid on the all-new Camaro Convertible. The iconic droptop goes into [...]
The Chevrolet Camaro Convertible has been revealed ahead of the LA Motor Show. It will be available in the UK but only as a 6.2 litre V8. It’s been a few years in the making, but Chevrolet has finally taken the wraps off the convertible version of the latest Chevy Camaro ahead of its debut at the LA Motor [...]
The Chevy Volt Brouhaha rumbles on, with Motor Trend pitching in their opinion after a drive. But they’re being either disingenuous or gullible. We’re not sure which. The brouhaha online this week has centred around GM’s revelation that the Chevy Volt / Vauxhall Ampera is actually not a true Range Extender EV but a hybrid. A different [...]
Chevrolet are taking the production version of the 2011 / 2012 Chevy Aveo to the Paris Motor Show It always seems a bit strong proclaiming that a new car has been revealed when we know it’s probably going to be a year before said car hits the showrooms. And so it is with the new [...]
Chevrolet are showing the Chevrolet Cruze Hatchback at the Paris Motor Show before it goes in to production mid 2011. Chevrolet are trying hard in Europe. Last year we saw the launch of the Chevy Cruze in to Europe – before even the US got it – and we recently reported on the Chevrolet Orlando [...]
Chevrolet are launching their compact, seven seat MPV at the Paris Motor Show – the Chevrolet Orlando – with a choice of petrol and two diesel lumps. Chevrolet first penned the idea of the Chevrolet Orlando with a concept in 2008 (which you can see on the right in the picture above). That has now turned in [...]
GM are trying to deflect possible obstacles for sales of the Chevy Volt by offering an 8 year warranty on the batteries and their components. You have to admire GM. They’ve come out and answered critics of electric cars – like us – who claim that not only are electric cars pointless in anything other than a [...]
It’s being reported that GM are re-engineering the Volt/Ampera to be driven by the engine as it’s range extender technology fails in the real world. That’s quite a headline. The technology that’s supposed to be the saviour of GM doesn’t work. Or at least not well enough. It seems that GM are about to re-engineer [...]
Chevrolet has launched a new range-topping Captiva Soft-Roader – the Chevrolet Captiva LTZ – with extra toys and a bigger price tag. Simmer. Don’t get too excited. Chevrolet have launched a new, range-topping model of the soft-roader Captiva on to the market. And it’s £20,000 cheaper than a Range Rover Sport. So Chevrolet tell us. [...]
GM has revealed the Chevrolet Volt MPV5 Concept at the Beijing Motor Show, an MPV / Crossover based on the Chevy Volt. We’re all busy waiting for the Chevy Volt / Opel Ampera / Vauxhall Ampera to turn in to reality. Despite that, GM has today rolled out an MPV / Crossover version of the [...]
Chevrolet Aveo RS Show Car: A Wake-Up Call for the U.S. Small-Car Segment * Dynamic hot hatch designed to appeal to young American enthusiasts * Personalisation is built into the design * Roominess and upscale amenities * 1.4L Ecotec turbo delivers exceptional fuel economy with performance when needed DETROIT – Chevrolet today announced the world [...]
GM has revealed the Chevrolet Aveo RS Concept, a hot-hatch preview of the next generation Chevy Aveo. It will show at the Detroit Motor Show. It really does say something about the changing car landscape in the US that the reveal of a US hot hatch is something that people are sitting up and taking notice of. [...]
The 2011 Cruze: Chevrolet Unveils U.S. Version Of The Popular, Fuel-Efficient Global Compact Sedan 2009-11-29 2011 Chevrolet Cruze at a Glance: o Popular global car refined for America o Expected segment-best fuel economy – up to 40 mpg highway – with new family of small-displacement engines, including Ecotec 1.4L I-4 turbo o Progressive design with [...]
The 2011 Chevrolet Cruze for the US market has been revealed ahead of its debut at the LA Motor Show this week. It’s the LA Auto Show this week, and one of the debuts is – somewhat bizarrely – the launch of the 2010 / 2011 Chevy Cruze. Is that an all new Chevy Cruze [...]
Well I’m glad it’s not just us who saw GM’s claims for the economy on the Chevy Volt at 230 mpg as stretching credulity. It seems the guys that run the NissanEV Twitter account were equally sceptical. So they’ve announced that they’ve worked out that the Nissan LEAF EV will do 367mpg! As we said, [...]
Yes, you read that right. In a press conference today GM has claimed that the Chevy Volt – when it finally turns up in late 2010 or more likely mid-2011 – will achive mileage equivalent to 230mpg. Some claim. How they’ve worked it out we don’t really know. Perhaps they plucked a figure out of [...]
GM is having its problems, as we’ve chronicled almost endlessly, but they are pushing ahead with the launch of their Focus-sized offering, the Chevrolet Cruse, around the world. So far it has been launched in the Far East and Australia, and now we’re getting it in the UK from the summer. But oddly, it’s not [...]
