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GM’s truck and crossover sales pass 1M unit mark for 2014

Green Car Congress

During July, GM sold 100,122 crossovers and SUVs, bringing the calendar-year-to-date total to 587,250 units—the best month for utility vehicle sales since August 2007. The Buick Encore, one of the industry’s first small crossovers, saw a 28% sales increase compared with July 2013. Overall, General Motors Co.

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GM: Q2 gross sales up 19% on industrial, SUV positive factors

Baua Electric

light-vehicle gross sales surged 19 % in the second one quarter as all 4 of its manufacturers posted double-digit positive factors. Day to moment, GM stated it has completed its best industrial gross sales since 2007. light-vehicle marketplace percentage: 16.3%, up an estimated 0.3 Basic Motors’ U.S.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Earlier post.).

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Junkyard Find: 1972 Chevrolet Vega Kammback

The Truth About Cars

Since I started documenting interesting discarded vehicles in 2007, I've written about nine Vegas: a 1972 hatchback , a 1973 hatchback with V8 swap , a 1975 hatchback , a 1975 Cosworth , a 1975 GT hatchback , a 1976 notchback , a 1976 Cosworth , a 1979 Monza Wagon and a 1979 Pontiac Sunbird Wagon.

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GM first global automaker to sell 2 million vehicles in China in a year

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In 2007, GM and its joint ventures sold 1,031,974 vehicles in China. October sales of Shanghai GM’s Buick brand jumped 35.7% FAW-GM, GM’s light commercial vehicle joint venture, sold 6,505 vehicles in October. Last year, GM sold 1,826,424 vehicles nationwide. This was up 44.5% from the same month last year.

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