May 25, 2012 | DETROIT General Motors has named a new vice president for global quality and U.S. customer experience, to replace its retiring vice president of global quality activities. Effective June 1, Alicia Boler-Davis will assume responsibility for GM’s global quality activities from Terry Woychowski, who is retiring as…
Classic Vette: A love that’s gonna last
Visitors to Howard’s Pizza at the Classic 50?s location in Marketplace are greeted by a Marilyn Monroe mannequin in the front window. Owner Tom Heisler has displayed a collection of ’55, ’56 and ’57 Chevy Bel Airs in the window over the years, but it’s the car that’s been parked…
Classic Vette: A love that’s gonna last
Visitors to Howard’s Pizza at the Classic 50?s location in Marketplace are greeted by a Marilyn Monroe mannequin in the front window. Owner Tom Heisler has displayed a collection of ’55, ’56 and ’57 Chevy Bel Airs in the window over the years, but it’s the car that’s been parked…
Facts and figures of the 96th Indianapolis 500
By Associated Press, Thursday, May 24 Facts and figures of the 96th Indianapolis 500-mile race Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway: DISTANCE — 500 miles; 200 laps around the asphalt-on-brick Indianapolis Motor Speedway track, a 2.5-mile rectangular oval. SANCTIONING BODY — IndyCar. RACE CARS — Open-cockpit, open-wheel and single-seat, with 2.2-liter,…
It was fiberglass heaven at the Lone Star Corvette Club Classic 2012
William Jinkins Fort Worth Auto Examiner May 23, 2012 View slideshow: LSCC 2012 Classic Corvette meet It’s a well known fact that Texas is state that does things big. In Fort Worth that goes double. That’s where the DFW-based Lone Star Corvette Club (LSCC) held their 23rd annual ‘Classic’ Corvette…
2 arrested in sale of parts from stolen Corvette
The Fresno Bee Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 | 10:44 PM Fresno police investigating the sale of parts from a Corvette being sold on the Internet arrested two men Tuesday afternoon in northwest Fresno. Police said officers went to the 8200 block of North Bond Avenue about 5:30 p.m. to follow…
NADA UCG: Compact Cars Continue Wholesale Price Slide
May 24, 2012 | McLEAN, Va. As nearly all the wholesale price segments NADA Used Car guide tracks are expected to fall over the course of this week, it may perhaps be surprising just which units may see a slight uptick. After the gas price surge left compact-car prices soaring,…
TransUnion: National Auto Loan Delinquencies Hit Lowest Level on Record
May 23, 2012 CHICAGO — In findings congruent with other industry analysts, TransUnion discovered this morning that the national auto loan delinquency rate — the rate of borrowers 60 or more days past due — reached its lowest level since the firm began tracking the data in 1999. TransUnion…
Corvette Racing Goes Two for Two
By: Tommy Milner on May 22, 2012 LAT PHOTOGRAPHIC – Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin won the AMLS GT races at Laguna Seca and Long Beach to open the season. It took me six years of racing in the American Le Mans Series to get my first win. There…