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The folks at John Watson Chevrolet in Utah were doing a little remodeling this month and decided their Silverados could match any piece of construction equipment so they tied one side to four of the trucks. I love the smell of crushed building materials in the morning. More »
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Craig Monahan was a New York City firefighter who ran to Ground Zero on September 11th, 2001. His burned Chevy Silverado pickup survived to become a symbol of resolve, even making its way into a national television ad campaign. I wanted to know where the truck and Monahan are today. This is their story. More »
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Pickup buyers eyeballing the 2012 Silverado will likely consider Chevy's new Custom Sport Truck package, which bundles some of the most-opted-for stuff in one place. But we also applaud Chevy for thinking outside accepted wisdom and introducing the Liz Taylor White Diamonds package. Oh wait. Nevermind. More »
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What is the best way to cap off a Memorial Day celebration on the sand dunes of Michigan's Silver Lake Park? If you said destroy your almost new to brand new Chevy Silverado in an amazing display of high flying hoonage, you are not alone. One Chevy Truck driver had the same thought last weekend and this video is the awesome result. More »
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The driver of this Silverado avoids the chilling reach of Darwin when he plows nose-first into the a dirt ramp, thanks mostly to a helmet and a little luck. The same can't be said for the truck. More »
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We've really tried to not hit the easy joke from the bowtie brand's new tagline "Chevy Runs Deep." But when it's stuck on the tip of a phallic Camaro thrusting out in these new ads, how can anyone avoid it? More »
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Chevrolet's "Like a Rock" advertising campaign began in 1991 and lasted until 2004. Featuring the musical talent of Bob Seger, the whole campaign was excellent and a little ridiculous for what they fit in a 30 second advertisement. More »
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Ever wanted to see how a heavy duty truck gets made? If so, here's a quick video of nothing but heavy-haulin' manufacturing porn — the 2011 Chevy Silverado HD getting built in Flint, MI. Enjoy. More »
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If you have ears you've probably heard a thousand Lady Gaga songs. Or at least you've heard one song a thousand times. And because her very NSFW video "Telephone" co-stars the "Kill Bill" Pussy Wagon you'll now know another song. More »
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Just as we go and declare the 2011 Ford Super Duty the best heavy-duty pickup on the market, GM comes along and crushes Ford's power figures. The new Chevy Silverado HD diesel makes a staggering 765lb-ft of torque and 397HP. More »
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Amazing strength, meet slightly less amazing strength: For the Chicago Auo Show, General Motors welded an old Silverado HD frame to a new one. Boxed rails? We got your boxed rails right here. More »
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Chevy's been getting its ass kicked by Ford's Super Duty pickups. Now the 2011 Chevy Silverado Heavy Duty finally boxes the frame, adds triple rate springs and offers a stupefying 20,000lb towing capacity thanks to the new Duramax diesel. More »
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After GM Vice-Chairman Tom Stephens challenged Ford to a heavy-duty pickup tug-of-war, there was radio silence from Dearborn. Apparently the blue-oval isn't interested in having any fun, so they twittered a reply basically saying "truck off." [PickupTrucks.com] More »
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The Truck Of War pitting Duramax against Powerstroke has officially heated up with GM telling PickupTrucks.com "Let's Go!" to the offer of an old-fashioned-and-insanely-awesome truck tug-of-war. We'll bring the popcorn. [PickupTrucks.com] More »
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Kelly Blue Book seems to be having some issues with oversharing in its incentives. Or something. This is a very strange mistake. Update: Kelly Blue Book issues a fairly amusing official response. [KBB via The Car Lounge] More »
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GM Vice-Chairman Tom Stephens is so confident in GM's new 2011 Heavy Duty trucks, he's issued a challenge to Ford, telling PickupTrucks.com he wants to pit 'em up against the new Super Duty — in a tug of war! [PickupTrucks.com] More »
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Chevy added Bob Seger's "Like A Rock" to their truck commercials and created advertising gold. But did they also create an unstoppable monster? Seger's Greatest Hits is poised to outsell the Silverado this decade. Who will win: Rock-truck or rocker? More »
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In addition to the not-a-Z28 Jay Leno Camaro concept and a slew of other mullet-mobile mock-ups, GM brought out this Chevy Silverado ZR2 concept, the bowtie brand's weak-ass attempt at a Raptor-fighter. More »
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Despite sporting the same grille as the current model (fear not, that'll change), we're told this is the 2011 Chevy Silverado 3500. This tester's supposedly showing off a softer, more sensitive production-intent bumper. More »
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The big Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale's going on right now and we're already into the fourth day of hot gavel action. Here's the eight top cars that have found new owners through day three. More »
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When the chief (at the time, chief-in-training) took a close up look at the then-new 2007 Chevy Silverado, the major improvements made in the areas of ride-and-handling, body control and interior design were fairly evident. We got to wondering, given the Silverado is now competing against the new Tundra and two new domestic competitors in the form of the 2009 Dodge Ram and 2009 Ford F-150, does the truck which debuted in 2006 still stack up? Well, a new engine and a six-speed transmission mean the 2009 Silverado comes to the table with a whole new set of bragging rights. More »
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While not as impressive as the 1970 Camaro that went 1,000,000 miles on the original drivetrain, this 1991 Chevy Silverado pickup has reached the million-mile mark in a mere 18 years. Why isn't that as impressive as the Camaro's feat? Well, for starters, there's the matter of the five transmission replacements (and who knows what else) during that time, but the Flint-built 350 engine has remained unopened for all million miles. I'd try to extract more information from the description, but the eBay-spec bold, underlined, centered, run-on text makes reading quite the brain-killer. Is it worth $29,999.99? We'll find out in a few days! [eBay Motors] More »
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GM's just revealed a whole messload of details on their newest members of the GMT-900-based full-size SUV and truck lineup — the 2009 Chevy Silverado XFE, 2009 Chevy Tahoe XFE, 2009 GMC Sierra XFE and lastly, the 2009 GMC Yukon XFE. What's XFE? It stands for Xtra Fuel Economy and the four relative fuel-sippers join the already class-leading Chevy Cobalt XFE as vehicles GMs achieved added wallet-padding using a combination of mechanical, aerodynamic and mass-reducing enhancements. The tweaks help to deliver a 5% increase in EPA-estimated highway fuel economy and more than 7% improved mileage in city driving. They achieve 15 city and 21 highway mileage ratings versus comparable non-XFE models' 14/20 ratings. The XFE designation is only available on 2WD vehicles equipped with the 5.3-liter V8 mated to a six-speed transmission. But we're told they're able to accomplish the fuel economy bump without a knock to towing ratings. The Tahoe and Yukon are unchanged, while the Silverado and Sierra increase from 6,600 pounds to 7,000 pounds due to the new, six-speed transmission and high-capacity cooling package. Still with us? Good. Hit the jump for our take. More »
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Proving there's no honor among thieves, a lowly car thief in Salinas, California was sitting outside a convenience store in his stolen SIlverado pickup when a more violent and armed criminal jumped in the passenger seat and demanded the thief drive the truck away. The carjacker and the car thief hit a bit of a snag when their twice-stolen Chevy ran out of gas. The carjacker then ordered the thief to get out and push, but that untrustworthy thief merely ran away...and called police to report the carjacking of his stolen truck. More »
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With news that GM may be halting new truck development, our good friends at the Fox Business Network just had to have us back, which means another episode of the official car pundit drinking game. We get more name love (drink) from Stuart Varney and even argue a bit with the lovely Tracy Byrnes. Though she doesn't want the Civic, it was the best selling car in May. Just saying. And to Buckster, I took your advice and gave "1984 Tom Cruise" his hair back. More »
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General Motors is planning to extend the current product cycle on its full-size trucks and SUVs, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. New designs had been expected to come in time for the 2012 model year. However GM spokesperson Tom Wilkinson told the Journal that GM was "looking at the whole product portfolio" in an effort to bring more fuel-efficient vehicles to the U.S. market. While the change in product planning should free up much-needed R&D funds, there's little doubt the lukewarm launch of the latest Toyota Tundra and the gas prices-induced slow-motion 2009 Dodge Ram and 2009 Ford F-150 launch train-wrecks influenced top brass at the Ren Cen. More »
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After a massive 39.5% drop in full-size truck sales last month, the General has decided to follow Ford by upping the incentives on the off-roadin' people-haulers. But not only are they dropping more dollars on the hood of the basic one-powertrain models, they're dropping the same levels of cash on the new two-mode hybrid versions of GM's GMT-900 SUV twins — the GMC Yukon and Chevy Tahoe. While we're not surprised at seeing up to $6,000 thrown on the hood of the non-hybrid Tahoe and Yukon, a $4,000 owner loyalty rebate on the hybrids seems a bit surprising. Isn't this a hybrid sellers' market? Full incentive breakdown after the jump. More »
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The folks at U.S. News & World Report have named their top cars for 2008 and the old U.S. of A. did not far so well. In 11 categories there were only two pickups for Detroit automakers: Chevy Silverado 1500 (Best Full Size Pickup) and Tahoe (Best Large SUV). Honda picked up five awards, BMW picked up two and Mazda tied with two cars. There's nothing quite shocking with the picks, as few are going to be surprised to see the Honda Accord Best Midsize Car or the Fit make Best Economy Car. Full list and press release below the jump: More »
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The General just revealed the all new electric towing sled for the brand all about the 'merican revolution — the 2009 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid. What more can we say that we didn't say in our earlier post about this truck that's supposed to go up to 30 MPH for at least some number of miles yet to be announced. So, you know, here are the live shots. More »
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Tomorrow here at the LA Auto Show, an automaker will finally be announcing they've built themselves a dual-mode hybrid pickup truck. But who knew the automaker that'd get 'er done would be GM? That's right the 2009 Chevrolet Silverado hybrid will be the industry's most fuel-efficient full-size pickup truck with a GM-claimed 40% increase in city fuel economy and 25% increase in overall fuel economy. Supposedly the new electric towing sled from the General will even be able to stay in electric-only mode up to 30 MPH for almost three miles (although some engineers claim this number is actually only 1.5 miles). Also we're kinda wishing the General hadn't tossed a big, silly "Hybrid" sticker on the side of the truck. Maybe they'll fix that when they reveal the "Professional Grade" model for the Detroit Auto Show. Full press release after the jump.
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Yes, just because you can't get the off-road Z71 package on the Silverado 2500HD doesn't mean you don't want it really really badly, especially if you're a fan of the big-boy HD trucks. So, the folks at GM Accessories and Chevy have combined forces to provide y'all with "Big Red" here, a concept that merges the popular package with the quite likable 2008 Chevy Silverado 2500HD Crew Cab and its 6.6-liter Duramax turbo-diesel engine. Now that's a lot of off-roadin' torque power they've wrapped up in a paint job meant to be reminiscent of Dale Earnhardt Jr's "Big Red" Silverado that debuted at last year's SEMA show. Except, you know, without the whole giant signature on the side. More »
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In addition to the news on the discontinuation of discounted AOL service and a small rear-wheel-drive platform named Alpha, there's also news from GM's wide world of pickup trucks. Those pretty brand-spankin' new GMT-900 pickup trucks and SUV's from Chevy and GMC? They've already got a replacement platform, and the General's calling it "C3XX." And really, that's all we know — in 2012 (2013 for the Arlington, Texas plant), C3XX will be the new GMT-900. That is all. More »
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This picture, taken by an anonymous tipster we're calling "Deep Alamo", is from the set up for the Texas State Fair last night. Looks normal enough, doesn't it — the Toyota truck racing trailer pulling up to the fair site, right? Wait a second, something's wrong here — is that a late-model Silverado 3500 HD crew cab hauling it around? Yeah, that's what that is. Obviously the reason why Toyota wasn't going to be able to haul this heavy of a trailer was because they don't have a heavy duty pickup to hitch that big Toyota racing trailer up to. But even the most hard-core Toyota truck fan's got to admit it's probably a little embarrassing to have the competition hauling you around by your johnson trailer hitch.
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Looks like the boys from Roush are spending some time rubbin' up to the boys from the big tower o' power that's the Renaissance Center in Detroit. That grainy camera phone shot above, taken from someone over at PerformanceTrucks.net, appears to show a Roush catalog page featuring what looks like a Roush-accessorized Chevy Silverado. If the image is to be believed, does this mean Roush is looking to expand beyond being a Ford accessory house into some other 'merican brands? Our sources seem to indicate that's the case — we guess we'll all have to wait and see. [via CamaroZ28.com] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=295989&view=rss&microfeed=true This is not our country, these are our job cuts? GM's cutting 1,100 jobs from the Oshawa truck plant in Canada. [Reuters] More »
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