BUSINESS
July 4, 2007 | From Times Wire Services
General Motors Corp.'s Chevrolet Cavalier is being investigated by U.S. safety regulators because the fuel pump may fail and cause the car to stall at speeds of 35 mph or higher. The inquiry covers as many as 218,000 of the 2003 models, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said. The agency said it received 13 reports of stalling and 10 others of fuel pumps that failed and had to be replaced.
AUTOS
December 28, 2005 | DAN NEIL
IN its search for fresh, edgy attitude that will resonate with Generation iPod, Chevy has turned, inevitably, to the Truman administration. The styling of the HHR -- it stands for "Heritage High Roof" -- is inspired, so they tell me, by the 1949 Chevy Suburban. One must be particular in these matters, since Plymouth and Dodge built Suburbans in those years too.
AUTOS
August 17, 2005 | DAN NEIL
INSTEAD of General Motors, how about Specific Motors? While its fortunes in the high-volume Everyman-sedan market have been ever so sketchy lately, the world's biggest car company definitely has some mojo in male-enhancement products, limited-production cars such as the Corvette C6 Z06, the Pontiac GTO -- now with hood scoops! -- and our test car, the 2005 Chevy Cobalt SS Supercharged Coupe, which is a very fine little car despite its resemblance to a cheese slicer.
AUTOS
January 19, 2005 | DAN NEIL
AFTER 52 years in production, the Chevrolet Corvette is a legend, an institution, an American icon, which is reason enough to be suspicious of it. The fact is, until recently (1997), the Corvette wasn't a particularly good car. Those of early 1990s vintage handled like the thin end of a 10-pound ax and had the "that's-close-enough" build quality of a Monday-morning British Lister.
AUTOS
August 25, 2004 | Warren Brown, Washington Post
The auto industry could save itself marketing headaches and money by firmly embracing station wagons. Consider the 2005 Chevrolet Equinox. Although it is sold as a small SUV, it actually is nothing of the sort. That also can be said of Equinox rivals such as the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, Saturn VUE, Ford Escape and Jeep Liberty -- all of which have abandoned body-on-frame, truck-based architecture in pursuit of vehicles more akin to family wagons and sedans.
AUTOS
August 11, 2004 | Warren Brown, Washington Post
There are several ways to look at the Chevrolet Aveo LS hatchback. Nearly all of them are bad. The most benign view is that it is a cheap ride (base price: $12,680), and it's built to perform, feel and stay that way. There is nothing special about it, nothing romantic or inviting. The Aveo LS is an appliance in much the manner of a toaster or washing machine. You turn it on, and it takes you from place to place in splendid mediocrity. I had hoped to write something different.