Nine out of eleven General Motors plants wont go idle this summer as they typically do. Customer demand is high enough to warrant keeping vehicles churning off the assembly line.
Working to decrease customer wait times for high demand models is what is driving this move which typically idles plants for a two week period during [...] Read the rest of this entry »
Mini continues to assert their advertising brilliance by poking fun at the situation where they have challenged Porsche to a race but Porsche has declined. This time they do so in a Rocky IV spoof. So it is more than obvious that Mini will continue the onslaught until Porsche finally throws in the towel and [...] Read the rest of this entry »
So you may or may not have heard, Mini challenged Porsche to a race at Road Atlanta. Porsche declined saying that they didnt participate in silly publicity stunts, in no uncertain words. So now Mini has fired back with a new video asking Porsche to reconsider.
Mini is waging all out war against Porsche on [...] Read the rest of this entry »
A tornado down in Texas decided to have its way with a $120,000 Corvette ZR1 and when all was said and done, its now worth 1/10th of the cost as a salvage title. While the interior and exterior have been more of less destroyed at the hands of Mother Nature, the 638 HP Supercharged LS9 [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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In a memo that circulated throughout GM and the Internet earlier this week stating the facts that GM needs to work on name recognition and marketing of their brands and that employees needed to stop using the nickname Chevy in favor of the full name of Chevrolet. You may imagine that these comments lit a [...] Read the rest of this entry »
There’s corporate silliness. And then there’s what happened at Chevy, er, Chevrolet this week. Chevrolet sales vice president Alan Batey and marketing vice president Jim Campbell sent a memo to employees asking that they talk about the brand as Chevrolet, not its shortened nickname Chevy, according to a New York Times report. They want the brand to be consistent, especially since General Motors is trying to push Chevrolet in global markets where some people may not know it as Chevy. The story took on a life of its own, with some observers thinking that Chevrolet way trying to ban the use of the nickname “Chevy.”
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