GMC Sierra Denali truck maneuvers with four wheels steering
TORREY PINES, Calif. — This is it: The ultimate pickup, stoked with power from a massive engine, stuffed with luxurious comforts in a four-door and five-seat cabin, then outfitted with sophisticated electronic controls that make the big rig as easy to maneuver around a crowded parking lot as a small sports car.
Call it Denali, top trim for the Sierra 1500 full-size truck by GMC of General Motors.a humongous 6.0-liter V8 engine sits beneath that scored hood and it carries the strength of 325 horses, plus as much as 370 lb-ft of torque at 4000 rpm.
Chevrolet TrailBlazer EXT stretches the cabin for more seats
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — From the southbound lane of State Street in Ann Arbor, a right turn into the freeway on-ramp for I-94, America’s northern interstate corridor, leads westward across Michigan toward Chicago, Minneapolis and, if you keep on driving, the end of the road at Seattle.
2002 Chevrolet S-10 ZR2
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A truck with V6 kick makes off-roading easy
FORT WORTH, Tex. — To create a dirt-wheeling ZR2 off-road truck warrior, start with Chevrolet’s lively compact-class S-10 pickup equipped with a short bed in back and an extended cab up front, plus a six-pack of power beneath the hood and a strong transfer case to channel the engine’s torque to front as well as rear wheels for reliable traction on virtually any surface.
BOISBRIAND, Quebec Acre upon acre of muscle cars — Chevrolet’s legendary Camaro and Pontiac’s Firebird cover a vast parking lot at the Saint Therese automotive plant by General Motors in Boisbriand, a suburb of Montreal in Canada’s French-flavored province of Quebec.
BRANSON, Mo. — Heavy Duty: That’s the tell-all descriptive for a new series of big and powerful work trucks developed by General Motors for the upward expansion of Chevrolet’s full-size line of Silverado pickups.
These behemoth trucks, built on a strong new structure that’s modular in design to allow multiple configurations for cabin size and box length, bulge from new sheetmetal styling and ripple with enthused strength due to a new series of powertrains that muscle up to the head of the heavy class in terms of raw horsepower, engine torque and efficiency for towing and toting hefty loads.
The Saturn Vue is getting greens every year, and a new 2009 model to be introduced in the fall of 2008 will feature a two-mode system designed to 50-percent improvement in fuel economy and a significant reduction in emissions.
Saturn added a Green Line hybrid model to the Vue Lineup for the 2007 model year. That model paired a four-cylinder engine with a single-mode hybrid system.
