Jalopnik 
Enter your username and password.
-
#news
GM's Momentum Maintenance: More On The Lambda Platform "Stop Sale"
I just got off of the phone with a PR staffer from the General, who provided me with a little bit more detail, but by no means the full story, on the General's decision to put a "stop sale" on the GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook. According to Lynda Messina, the PR-anista in charge of manufacturing issues for GM's lambda-platformed crossover triplets, the "stop sale" occurred because "a couple of issues cropped up over the past few days...in a test fleet of vehicles." She also claimed the issues are "not safety-related" and "to our knowledge no one has received a vehicle yet...they are only on dealer lots...but I've no idea when they'll be able to start selling." Messina wasn't able to provide any detail on what the specific issues were, but we're told we'll have more information from the General when they see fit to provide it. One assumes it must have been important enough to require them to "maintain momentum" via a halt to sales. More » -
#news
Breaking! GM Issues "Stop Sale" To Dealers On Saturn Outlook And GMC Acadia
Dealers received an immediate stop-action communique over the weekend from the home office at the RenCen of the General's decision to immediately halt sales of the two models in its threesome of Lambda-platform CUV's already on the market, the GMC Acadia and the Saturn Outlook. The communique, which appears to have been so hastily written it misspells "Attention," claims the need to stop sales"...in order to maintain our momentum and successful launch of these products, we are evaluating potential enhancement and inventory upgrade to the vehicles."
Because nothing says "maintaining momentum" like a complete halt. Full copy of the alert below the jump. More » -
#news
That's A Saturn? 2007 Outlook To Start At $27,990, AWD Pricing In At $29,990
Well, number two in the threesome of Lambda-platform CUV's — the General's answer to the Ford Edge / Lincoln MKX — has finally finished getting its makeup ready and is ready for the public. The Saturn Outlook joins its non-identical twin brother, the Acadia, in the ranks of "vehicles with price tags." Yes, we know — sometimes kids need encouragement, so sometimes you have to applaud the little things. In this case, we're applauding a price tag that sets it at a level $2,000 cheaper than its badge-engineered GMC sibling, and more than likely cheaper than Buick's Enclave in the woods. You know, the Outlook was always our favorite. Gallery via the link, full press release after the jump. More » -
#news
Pricing! GMC Professionally Grades 2007 Acadia CUV At A Starting Price Of $29,990
You'll need to be a "professional" if you want to apply for a lease or purchase deal on GMC's new crossover hotness, the Acadia. The General's new CUV is nothing if not pricey at a starting price of $29,990 for the FWD base unit. While certainly not as many ducats as FoMoCo's new Mercury MKX (that starting price of $34,795 still gives us a double-take, plus a quick jaw-to-the-floor) it's still more expensive than the Ford Edge (pricing in at a comparably inexpensive $25,995) by almost $4,000. But for that price, you'll get a few nice standard features on top of the requirement that you chain down your car at night else it float away on that warranty thing. The base model comes with six air bags, including head curtain side-impact and of course, dual chrome-tipped pipes. Rowr! Full release with the details after the jump. More » -
#news
GM Going Cross-Eyed On Marketing Crossovers?
I know I'm just about ready to smack the next person that calls a wagon a "CUV." I know it's the new hotness of marketing terms, but there's got to be a better way to define vehicles that clearly aren't sedans and yet, don't quite have that Jeep Grand Cherokee / Hummer / Explorer thing going for them. Yes — the technical definition of a unibody vehicle rather than an SUV built on a body-on-frame truck platform should suffice for most of the off-road wannabes — but I'm sorry Chrysler Pacifica, Subaru Outback and Dodge Magnum — y'all are wagons. Suck it up, take it as a loss, and move on. But, we do empathize with the General, who according to Automotive News, is having a bit of a problem trying to figure out what to call the new class of non-car, non-truck, non-suv vehicles they've got coming out over the next year. That'd be the threesome of the Saturn Outlook, GMC Acadia and Buick Enclave. The problem is, the General's already used the CUV classification to describe the Caddy SRX. So let's find out what y'all think.
More »
-
#gossip
Brand Stretching Part Deux? A Minivan for GMC
Is "Professional Grade" going the way of "Trail Rated"? Edmunds Inside Line reports GMC is planning a Lamda-platform minivan for 2009 that will be a boxier companion to the Acadia crossover — neither of which, we'd imagine, will be able to take on a load of steel beams dropped from a crane. It's from Edmunds' supplier sources whence the story comes; they say the new model will replace the void left by the Safari's departure. But where the Safari is used just as often by plumbers and electricians as those who employ them, the new model will be mainly for familes. Is it another case of asking too much from a rough-trade brand, or a smart line-expansion strategy (i.e., making GMC into a luxury marque — in the reverse of Land Rover's transformation)? Who freaking knows anymore. More » -
#newcars
Acadia Madness! More On The All-New 2007 GMC Acadia
As promised — we've got more Acadia action for you. After the jump we've got a bunch of pictures of the new CUV addition to the GMC lineup — including some of that "hot" interior we were talking about earlier. Also, scope out the specs on this "professional grade" CUV with a little bit of a softer side in the press release below the photos. Yeah, it's a bit lazy — but we want to get the information across to readers like you, but don't really want to write about it anymore. So remember kids, it's a press release, so believe only half of what you read — and even then — don't believe that half. More » -
-
#newcars
Fun with GM's Product Release Cycle: The GMC Acadia Breaks Cover
We love the randomness that is GM's product release cycle. Although we know, thanks to the Freep, GM is pushing up the rollout of new vehicles, what made the PR folks over at the Ren Cen say "Hey, let's drop this one on Wednesday, July 12th — how does that sound guys?" (Anything to take their minds off the pending meeting between Wagoner and Ghosn — though we doubt it'll have any effect on press coverage.) Nonetheless, the GMC Acadia that bubbled up this PM is the latest in the line of Lambda-platform crossovers that started with the Saturn Outlook and won't end until every division save Pontiac and Hummer (and Saab?) are accounted for. The full press release is coming, but in the meantime, check out the interior after the jump. More » -
#spyphotos
Spy Photos: 2008 GMC Acadia
The Car Connection offers the clearest shots yet of the GMC Acadia, the next thread in GM's new unit-body SUV plotline. TCC says it's coming in 2008 — a year after its Saturn Outlook cousin — and it'll be subsequently joined by the Buick Enclave and Chevrolet Uplander in the company's late-decade crossover SUV blitz (no Pontiac, thank heavens). Wait for it. More » -
#spyphotos
Spy Photos: 2007 GMC Acadia
We've seen it masked, now let's check it out unmasked — but with maybe a wee bit of vaseline on that camera phone lens. Our man Peter in Pasadena sent these unmasked and blurry cell phone shots of what he describes as: More » -
#spyphotos
Spy Photos: 2007 GMC Acadia
The Detroit News has a pic of the new Acadia, built on GM's Lambda platform. The Lambda will also be the platform for the new Buick Enclave and Saturn Outlook. What we know is it looks like it could quite possibly be the biggest CUV ever built. We're starting to wonder if the term "CUV" may have become kind of a catch-all phrase for everything from small sports-utes to power wagons to even, dare we say it, minivans. G-D help us if we start seeing suburban moms drivin' around in minivans startin' to call them "CUV's". It will be at that point when we will officially know the "CUV" craze has, like the Simpsons Movie, "jumped the shark." More » -
#news
GMC Confirms Name for New Crossover
File this one under Things we Knew But Didn't Really Know: GM has confirmed the name of the GMC version of its upcoming crossovers for 2008 — it'll be called "Acadia," after the French Canadians or the Cajuns (take your pick). The name isn't really news, since the automotive media has been reporting on the "GMC Acadia" for about a year, but it does highlight the twilight world in which we operate, where facts are just rumors with more sources. The Acadia will first appear at the Detroit show early in 2006 as a concept, before a production launch set for 2007. More »
