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In the news: The Chevrolet Camaro concept was one of the vehicles that received high praises during the 2006 American Auto show. And for this year, it is expected that the Camaro will once again reign. This time however, it’s going to be the Camaro convertible.

The Chevrolet Camaro convertible concept is to debut on the eve of the North American International Auto Show at GM Style which is an exclusive fashion-splashed event that combines celebrities, couture and automobiles. Chevrolet is optimistic with its new Camaro convertible and announced that they already made production plans for it. They further stated that if things will go smoothly with the production then the US auto market can expect it by 2009.

The Camaro convertible concept was derived from the original Camaro concept with little changes to make way for the convertible body style. In terms of exterior dimensions, the Camaro convertible and the original Camaro concept basically are the same L/W/H: 4,730/2,022/1,344 mm. Their only difference is the windshield since the convertible concept’s features a bright anodized finish and altered slightly to make room for the convertible top. The Camaro convertible concept is going to be equipped with a potent V-8 engine that powers the rear wheel via manual transmission. It will also feature a four-wheel independent suspension system and a four wheel disc brakes.

The convertible will also feature sophisticated Chevrolet Camaro accessories with some additional design details that include: tonneau cover, “Halo” headlamps, LED tailamps, rear spoiler with LED-lit CHMSL, racing-inspired fuel filler door, front-inlet hood scoop (inspired by the Corvette Z06), and a heritage-inspired rear fender grills. The Hugger Orange pearl tri-coat color of the Camaro convertible was more of a contemporary update of the classic hue offered in 1969.

The twin gunmetal gray sport stripes together with its classic color accentuate the Camaro’s heritage and help it in portraying a contemporary look. The Camaro convertible is equipped with 21 inch front wheels and 22 inch rear wheels that have a deep-dish, five spoke design with charcoal center sections with bright outer edges and an orange outline on the wheel edge.

According to Ed Welburn, GM Vice president, Global Design, “The best follow-up to last year’s award-winning Camaro concept is a Camaro convertible. The Camaro convertible concept instantly evokes an emotional response - it’s a vehicle that you want to make room for in your garage.”

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The model lifespan of new vehicles is likened to that of the presidential term of office since they usually get voted in every four years however pickups are different being extremely popular in the United States usually stayed for two terms.

Moreover since producing full-size pickups are also immensely profitable, automakers tend to spend more on further improving the quality of their truck parts. Plus they make sure that they employed only the best and brightest product engineers and planners to help them create the next blockbuster pickup that can become the next contender for the next Truck of the Year award. And for this year Motor Trend has chosen two pickup trucks from the stable of the world’s largest automaker—the new Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra.

In choosing the Truck of the Year one of the criteria is significance in which the Silverado scored high. The sales of the two brands tally well, each achieving over a million units year in and out courtesy of the numerous combinations and permutations of cabs, drivetrains, beds, and suspensions offered. The Silverado has also recorded high in terms of sales on both Chevrolet truck accessories and Chevrolet truck parts. Its Chevrolet truck part components are made from high-grade materials—only the best from GM.

Unfortunately, market significance doesn’t have that much effect on the Truck of the Year voter base. Each of the truck has to prove its worth and this means passing several tests that are to be conducted by the judges on Motor Trend.

The fresh styling of both trucks have made quite an impression and have successfully differentiates the two trucks from each other. However since it’s a competition there would always be some features that would make one truck to outshine the other. The Silverado’s chrome-bisected grille and brawnier square-shouldered quarter panels enhanced the truck’s looks. Its interior design is made even more impressive with Chevy’s fake wood earning higher marks than the Cadillac’s timber.

On the other hand, the entry-level dash fitted to Sierra makes it classy. The seats both the front and back provides great support while the interior’s hush is so quite that no squeak or rattle can be heard. The new cargo bed earned high marks for utility especially since its equipped with a cargo-management system and spring loaded EZ-Lift tailgate. The judges also appreciated the low sides of the bed which makes it easy to reach unlike the cargo boxes found on the Avalanche/Escalade EXT and the current Ford F-150.

The Silverado’s 5.3 liter V8 featured fuel-saving displacement on demand and a clever dash readout that indicates if it’s operating in V4 mode. This boost fuel economy to an EPA rated 16 mpg city/20 mpg for highway. Only the Dodge Ram Hemi is known to offer a similar system however its EPA numbers trail by 1 mpg each.

Some voters also expressed doubts about the overall smoothness of the engine and quality of the four-speed automatic’s shift but judges at Motor Trend has found the drivetrain of the 2.5 ton four-wheel-drive quite reliable in sprinting to 60 mph in a respectable 8.2 seconds which is 0.3 second faster than a rear-drive 5.4 liter Ford F-150 and 0.4 second quicker than the Dodge Ram Hemi 4×4. And that’s not all once loaded with 1050 pound load its sprinting time is only stretched by 1.2 seconds as compared to Ford and Dodge Ram Hemi which took additional 1.3 seconds.

And in a boat towing test conducted the Sierra and the Silverado has showed remarkable toting and towing prowess. The figures obtained by the two GM trucks are just part of the whole story. The Judges were very much impressed with the composure of the Silverado when loaded. The truck didn’t ride down on its bump stops and although its front is a little light the truck didn’t lose control.

A week long testing has satisfied the Motor Trend judges and the result shows that the new GM full-size pickups have earned excellent marks in terms of superiority front and by limiting the price increase to about $300 on most models, the Chevy and GMC faired well when it comes to Value Category. But since only one truck should be voted as winner all the judges have agreed to award the Motor Trend’s Truck of the Year for 2007 to the Chevrolet Silverado.

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Big changes are taking place over NASCAR and for this coming weekend at the Texas Motor Speedway another transformation will be taking place. While the Nextel Cup drivers are driving their old familiar cars which they have been driving for years after the first two races in the Car of Tomorrow, the rest of the Chevrolet entries are to be powered by a new engine.

Chevrolet maker of the quality Chevrolet exhaust system, has been developing an engine for nine years now and for the first time it will make its racing debut in Samsung 500. “This engine now called the R07 actually started out as R99 because we ran it the first time in 1999,” said Mark Cronquist, chief engine builder for Joe Gibbs Racing. He also added, “There was an R03. There was an R05 that never got off of the chalkboard, basically. We had it all designed, but never made it. Then there’s this one, R07. So really, this R07 has been worked on by GM teams since 1998. I’ve got notes in my office from the very first time we talked about this engine. It was January 1998.”

The process was rather frustrating but at the end it was worth the wait said Cronquist and “the awesome thing is that, if you look at R09 and R07, they don’t even look alike, so I’m glad NASCAR never approved it. It had some updates, but every time NASCAR didn’t approve it, we went back and worked harder on it and changed more things on it.”

For this coming weekend it is expected that six teams will run the new engine. Gibbs Racing will place an R07 in the cars of Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, and J.J. Yeley Hendrick Motorsports’ Casey Mears and Kyle Busch, and Scott Wimmer, driving a fourth Richard Childress Racing entry.

General Motors world’s largest automaker and distributor of Chevrolet exhaust is hoping to have the engine ready for this season’s upcoming race but unfortunately a few technical difficulties slowed the progress of the project. Cronquist is very much excited to get the new engine into competition. He said, “With a motor we’ve been running, the block part of it was actually designed in 1955. We’ve made a few modifications to it, but it would still bolt into a 1955 Chevy Bel Air. The new block has got a lot more technology in it. Its more updated block than what we’ve ever had before.”

When asked if the new engine produces more horsepower and torque or is more fuel efficient, Cronquist replied, “it’s just better all over. We’re finally more even with what Dodge and Toyota have. It kind of got us back in the same playing field, back in what’s considered NASCAR’s box. We were outside of the box, actually below the box. We had disadvantages and they finally let us get the same advantages that other manufacturers had over us. I don’t think that we’ve really gotten into much of the performance part about it. A lot of it is that the shop needs just a lot less time to work on the parts and pieces of it. There’s a lot of stuff in this block that’s already cast into the block that we used to have to make ourselves and try to fit into our blocks. That took a lot of time and effort to do. If the performance comes, it will come because we’re going to have a lot more time in our shop to work on it.”

Cronquist further added, “A lot of it is that the shop needs just a lot less time to work on the parts and pieces of it. There’s a lot of stuff in this block that’s already cast into the block that we used to have to make ourselves and try to fit into our blocks. That took a lot of time and effort to do. If the performance comes, it will come because we’re going to have a lot more time in our shop to work on it.”

Chevrolet’s 5 of 6

The Chevrolet team has gotten to a great start this year in Cup winning five of the six races. The reigning champion Jimmie Johnson has won three of the five races while Hendrick with teammates Kyle Busch, and RCR’s Kevin Harvick have won the other two for GM. The victory of Matt Kenneth’s at California Speedway in a Ford is the only blemish on Chevrolet’s record for this season.

Out of the eight Chevy drivers that are currently in the top 10 in Cup points, two have won at Texas. Jeff Burton won the inaugural Cup race in Fort Worth in the year 1997 but he was a driver of Ford at that time. Stewart won on the 1.5 mile Texas track last fall. The different drivers winning each of the 12 Cup races at Texas only two others have been in Chevrolets namely Terry Labonte who won in 1999 and Dale Earnhardt Jr. who won in 2000.

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Its acceleration is impeccable, its remarkable stability and grip in every curve is pleasantly impressive, and the Chevrolet Cobalt is a winner in the world of used autos. The proven effectiveness of the engine putting out up to 205bhp (only available on the SS Supercharged model) with a just a 2.0L engine, making it a fuel efficient but powerful used auto.

The Cobalt can be defined as a real thoroughbred “Can Do” used vehicle, a description that fits because it has reached record speeds relative to other used vehicles in its class. With this model GM has done battle to recover the ground lost in this sector of small vehicles, which is a highly competitive area of the used vehicle market, which includes its well placed rivals Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, and Ford Focus used models.

The pre owned Chevrolet Cobalt is the second offensive line for a double attack on the market for small cars, and competes in the emerging segment of the used luxury compact. Most of the Chevrolet Cobalt sedans were manufactured in a format of basic equipment levels, used LS, LT and SS. The used coupé is more expressive version will come in base, LS, SS and SS Supercharged versions.

The used sedan has that air of elegance and simple optically sharp lines. In general, the performance and economy figures are very good, and the used Chevrolet Cobalt achieves that balanced output with some skill. The coupé was designed in a style that is not too different from current Cavalier two door, and carries taillights inspired by the design of the Corvette, though wisely avoiding the implementation of a comprehensive panel that is transparent as they did with the used Impala sedan to achieve a similar effect.

The Cobalt also offers used Sedan and Coupe versions with a total of eight levels of equipment, including a refined interior, Ecotec four-cylinder engines, based on the solid architecture from Delta. The Sedan offers a sophisticated look combined with a higher driving position for a better view of the road, making it a highly popular choice when buying a used car.

In regard to Coupe, based on the style of sedan from the A-pillar forward, the Cobalt Coupe reveals a reverse C-pillar, which directs the eye to the optical rounded rear, features common with used Chevrolet vehicles.

The ventilated disc brakes to the front with a single piston calipers and rear drum brakes are standard on composite basic models. In models LS, LT and SS, brakes with four-channel ABS are standard fixtures adding a lot of safety for a low price.

In SS models, disc brakes with ABS on four wheels, are standard, a used Cobalt also features improved electronic traction control. The Cobalt offers three Ecotec four-cylinder engines, inspired by their experience in racing, a proven automatic gearbox is available and two versions of their stick gearboxes.

The 2.2-liter Ecotec engine has an output estimated 140 hp and 204 Nm of torque. The combination of greater engine capacity and variable distribution technology, allows the Ecotec 2.4-liter, to offer one of the largest estimated torque, 231 Nm, that’s a lot of push for a small economical used vehicle.

The engines of the 2.2 liter and 2.4 liter versions with (DOHC), have aluminum blocks and cylinder heads, valve lifters with rotary cam tracking, camshaft activated by chain, and so much more. If you think this used car would suit your needs, check out your local car dealership to see if they can offer you this exiting used set of wheels.

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Smith Chevrolet Cadillac is a Chevy dealer in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Its location enables the dealership to serve customers in and around Barling, Arkoma, Van Buren, Greenwood, Roland, Pocola, Cedarville and Moffett.

Smith Chevrolet Cadillac has a large collection of new and certified used vehicles of Chevrolet makes including Chevy Avalanche, Aveo, Corvette, Silverado, Suburban, Equinox, Tahoe, TrailBlazer, Cobalt, HHR, Colorado, Impala, Monte Carlo and Uplander. The dealership also exhibits Cadillac models like the CTS, CTS-V, DTS, STS, STS-V, XLR, XLR-V, SRX, Escalade, Escalade ESV and Escalade EXT.

Customers can fill up the small form on the dealership’s website to get an instant price quote on any Chevrolet cars at the dealership. Visitors to the dealership’s website can schedule an online service appointment in real time or order parts and accessories. Customers can also avail discount on purchase of Chevy parts or any service on General Motors vehicles by presenting a print out of the coupon posted on the dealership’s website, when they visit the showroom.

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Today i test drove Chevrolet Optra - a lovely car to ride. I was very pleased with the smoothness of the drive and the low engine sound. GM cars especially chevrolet cars i have found in my past experience make a lot of noise but not this optra.chevrolet optra (the one i test drove) is reasonably priced at 9 Lakh exhowroom delhi. It competes with the best know car in its segment the - the japanese pride honda city.

My experience was great riding chevy optra , the seats were comfy and there is enough legroom to just let me long legs relax while i drive :). I have found honda city owing to its low steering wheel does get in way of my long legs. Anyways i do love honda city as well, let me focus on the chevrolet optra Chevrolet has launched optra magnum in 2 petrol versions(the base model is not at all popular and i could not find it in the dealer showroom either so i have chosen to skip it :)) :- 1) The petrol 1600 cc model - Chevrolet Optra 1.6 LS petrol

2) The petrol 1600 cc top end model - Chevrolet Optra 1.6 LT petrol

The top end model comes with the cool sun roof and is priced roughly 1.2 lakh more expensive than the Chevrolet optra 1.6 LS model. What model Chevrolet optra 1.6 LT offers more is the same colored rear view mirrors with the turn indications in the rear view mirror themselves. The rear view mirrors are also electric foldable in Chevrolet optra 1.6 LT Leather seats are not available in Chevrolet optra 1.6 LS , while it is availabe in the Chevrolet optra 1.6 LT model.

Chevrolet Optra is also available in diesel models. There are three variants available in diesel :- 1) The diesel base model - Chevrolet optra 2.0 LS 2) The diesel mid model - Chevrolet optra 2.0 LT

3) The diesel top end model - Chevrolet optra 2.0 MAX

Chevrolet Optra Magnum has come in India to rock the streets. Though it is yet to catch the eye of consumer i am sure it will. Amazing car ! Go for a test ride friends.

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