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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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As one of the GM employees at the event told me, “ We can make each car great, we don’t have to worry about cannibalizing sales from a sister vehicle. ”. I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. The Volt’s capacity is 60,000 vehicles/year or 2% of GM’s sales. Earlier post.).

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GM Previews First Two-Mode, Front-Wheel-Drive Hybrid Transaxle

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Nitz also noted that the coming next-generation of the mild GM Hybrid System ( earlier post ), which in its current form is applied in the Malibu, VUE and Aura, will offer equivalent power to Honda’s IMA system in the new Insight. second 0-60 mph (0-97 km/h) acceleration performance, as compared to a 6.9 Transaxle Operation.

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