Chevrolet

Here's an interesting one -- a 2001 Chevrolet Blazer that has had a manual transmission swapped in for an automatic. Oh, and it has been used for storm chasing.

I had a brief time with the 2024 Chevrolet Traverse RS AWD recently.

Chevrolet has announced that the 2025 Silverado EV RST will soon boast a new feature akin to the “CrabWalk” functionality found on the GMC Hummer and Sierra EVs. Marked under the “Sidewinder” moniker for Chevy, the system will allow the pickups to shift all four wheels to enable lateral movement.

Top-speed runs are usually reserved for the most expensive and exclusive vehicles around, but an American brand’s latest attempt shows that extreme speed isn’t reserved for the most elite among us. General Motors president Mark Reuss recently took a new Chevy Corvette ZR1 to a record top speed for cars under $1 million, placing it in the ranks of vehicles costing several times more.

From the 1962 through 1979 model years, General Motors moved close to five million units of the Chevy II/Nova compact car in North America. This was the Chevy II/Nova, and I've found a late-production example in a Denver car graveyard.

General Motors is reducing the available engine options for the Chevy Colorado, leaving the pickup with just one. However, that powertrain is the 2.7-liter turbocharged TurboMax offering 310 horsepower and 430 pound-feet of torque. While obviously the most exciting powertrain on offer, streamlining the model does reduce consumer choice and will likely raise MSRPs.

An automotive YouTuber has died near Detroit in a single-vehicle crash involving a Chevrolet Corvette C8.

EVs have become more common and could even be considered relatively mainstream today, but buyers still cite numerous problems with the shopping and dealer experience. Among them is salesperson knowledge and their ability to answer questions about the new vehicles. Chevy aims to fix that issue with a new training program that is projected to reach 7,000 employees across five states.

After months of seeing only 20th century vehicles in this series, a car from our current century was last week's Junkyard Find. We'll remain in the 21st century this week, with a very rare example of one of GM's early attempts to sell hybrid-electric cars.

Social media is packed with people showing off their luxurious lives in coastal California, and the ridiculously overpriced Erewhon grocery store chain has become a darling of people with cash to burn. Chevy seems to think those people are the perfect target for its latest Equinox EV marketing ploy, with the automaker giving free bottles of Erewhon’s viral almost-$20 smoothie to anyone who test drives the new vehicle at one of the chain’s L.A.-area stores.

Following Ford’s announcement that it would join Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS), General Motors jumped on board. The automaker recently made good on that promise, offering adapters to owners that allow access to Tesla Superchargers, but the older, discontinued Chevy Bolt needs a little more help to charge on the standard.

We continue the cheap wheels theme with today's UCOTD: A naturally-aspirated 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS.

Today we bring you a 2006 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible 3LT.

We have a weird one for you today -- a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu SS that doesn't seem close to stock.

When General Motors announced it was going to move away from Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, the public was immediately upset. However, the automaker responded by stating that change would be gradual and that the company would continue to offer vehicle integration by way of a proprietary interface. However, based on initial reviews, the resulting software doesn’t sound very enjoyable and even charges you for features that were previously free.

Today we go large, powerful American sedan with V8 power via this 2014 Chevrolet SS.

1975 was a wonderful year for Detroit ( and Kenosha) personal luxury coupes, whose heraldic crest badges and crypto-velour upholstery made it clear to those damn commies that a life queuing up for sawdust sausages and— if you were lucky— a shot at a new Zaporozhets wasn't much of a life at all. Today's Junkyard Find is an example of the Chevy Monte Carlo's more affordable brother, found in a car graveyard in Carson City, Nevada.

The new Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 offers supercar levels of performance, and while it’s significantly more expensive than the standard car, it undercuts some of its most prominent competition by a large margin. Chevy also recently said it would not limit production numbers for the car, noting that it would build as many as the market demands.

The reveal of the newest Corvette ZR1 has me wondering -- is 1,000 horsepower too much?

The Chevrolet Corvette has grown into essentially its own brand over the years, as the automaker pushes the performance envelope with Z06 and ZR1 variants. The eighth-generation car recently got its more extreme version in the 2025 Corvette ZR1, a mid-engine monster with a twin-turbocharged V8 and more.

My family recently bought a 2024 Honda Prologue on a lease deal that brought our monthly payments down to well below $300, but General Motors recently made the related Chevrolet Equinox EV an even better deal than that. The automaker’s new lease incentives for the vehicle make it $239 per month for a 24-month lease, though there’s still a significant down payment due at signing.

In the year 2024 - a strange world foreign to anyone old enough to remember Zima - the Chevrolet Trax is a full-size car.

I was informed of this jarring fact by my local Hertz agent.

"Gosh! Is self-identification at work here, or is there some type of science to back all of this up?" I wondered.

CHICAGO – As part of the festivities during 2024 NASCAR Chicago Street Race event in Chicago this past weekend, NASCAR unveiled a prototype EV.

The third-generation GM G-Series van was introduced as a 1971 model, and it stayed in production in essentially the same form through 1996. Early examples of this long-lived design are tough to find these days, so I was happy to find this '76 in a North Carolina self-service yard a couple of months back.

Chevy is set to expand the Corvette catalog again, this time with its most potent variant yet. The Corvette ZR1 will get an official reveal in July, according to the automaker, landing with what will almost certainly be an insanely powerful V8 and wild bodywork.

One thing you really want to work well in a powerful sports car is your seatbelt, but some Corvette owners might find theirs unusable. Chevy is recalling 13,464 of the cars for an issue that could cause the seatbelt to become locked in a stowed position.

Though it’s not the bargain it once was, the Chevy Corvette remains one of the best values in performance cars, especially with its move to a mid-engine layout. The Corvette Z06 debuted for the 2023 model year, bringing the car’s performance to a new level with its flat-plane-crank V8, and now, the automaker is nearing the release of an even crazier variant: The ZR1.

As a junkyard historian, I find the era of Detroit's transition from selling rebadged Japanese small pickups to selling their own homegrown versions especially interesting. The problem is that the Chevrolet S-10 was the first of those all-American 1980s minitrucks, and discarded early-production examples are damnably hard to find today.

Today it's van time with this rear-wheel drive 2000 Chevrolet Astro.

Just a bit ago I opined that GM/Chevy are being, uh, not very smart by killing the Chevrolet Malibu.

I extended that out to Ford and Stellantis, as well. While I don't think every OEM needs a sedan -- the Subaru Legacy is unlikely to be missed -- I think the Detroit Three do.

So, reader, I ask of you -- am I wrong?

The Chevrolet Malibu is dead.

Or, at least, it will be come November.

General Motors president Mark Reuss threw some shade at the all-electric Ford “Mustang” Mach-E by suggesting an electrified Chevrolet Camaro would not go the crossover route if he had his druthers. However, he still said such a vehicle would ideally seek to broaden the model’s appeal beyond the hardcore enthusiast base. In related news, Ford CEO Jim Farley recently hinted that there’s a Mustang sedan under consideration — noting that the nameplate would hopefully play host to a V8 powertrain for as long as possible.

We’ve been hearing about the Chevy Silverado EV for what seems like forever, but the first mainstream models have finally entered production. The automaker is building the top RST version of the truck at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant, where it also makes the basic Work Truck (WT) configuration.

As mentioned  yesterday in a story dug up by our Managing Ed, spox at General Motors have confirmed the venerable Malibu isn’t long for this world. But, hey – there’s a new paint shade for 2025.

It might surprise you that the Chevrolet Malibu is still in production, but according to a The Detroit News report I found via Autoblog, the venerable mid-size sedan will finish rolling off assembly lines in November.

The popular Equinox represents bread-and-butter sales for many Chevy dealers, so any wholesale changes are often eyed with equal amounts of anticipation and trepidation. Looking far more square and rugged compared to other iterations, the Equinox also gets a higher starting price for the 2025 model year.

Today we have a 2005 Chevrolet SSR with about 60K miles for your perusal.

All good things eventually come to an end. The Chevy Corvette got its most dramatic makeover ever in 2020, but the man behind the car’s evolution since 2006 recently announced his retirement.

Chevrolet is readying deliveries of the Silverado EV RST, and the truck’s already impressive specs just got a boost. The automaker now states a range of 440 miles for the luxurious electric pickup, increasing the originally advertised 400-mile range. That makes it almost as robust as the more stripped-down 4WT (Work Truck) trim, which boasts a 450-mile driving range.

Today we have another bit of basic transport from Chevy, though this one is a step up in terms of price and size from the Trax I recently reviewed.

I dug the Trax's combination of utility, sport, and affordable price. Would I feel the same about the 2024 Chevrolet Trailblazer AWD RS?

It’s a great time to be a fan of burly off-road pickup trucks from the Bowtie brand. With multiple flavors of dirt road fun in three different sizes, Chevy has covered just about all bases.

These days, given customer preferences and the current state of our car market in this country, the announcement of a new Equinox is as important to GM’s bottom line as was rolling out a new Impala back in the day.

Out of all the eight generations of Chevrolet Corvette production, the biggest success in the showrooms was the 1968-1982 C3. The C3 looked wild and boasted Jimi Hendrix and Joan Didion provenance, but it handled like a truck and power numbers were grim once the Malaise Era took hold. The General decided he'd be wise to make its C4 successor a cornerin' and brakin' machine, and today's Junkyard Find is a first-year C4 discovered in a Northern California car graveyard last year.

Over the long holiday weekend I had a conversation about muscle cars from the late '60s/early '70s -- and also saw a bunch of them being posted on the Twitter/X account of a famous performance-car builder.

I enjoyed seeing the Camaros and Chevelle SSs and whatever else. It helped put a smile on my face after the weird year that was 2023. When gazing at a particularly lovely restored Chevelle SS, I thought to myself "man that's what a '60s/'70s muscle car looks like."

Then I realized there were several models that could be the primary representative of that era.

Building cars is hard, and it turns out that building electric cars may be even harder. According to number posted by eggheads at tony consulting firm PwC, roughly a third of new vehicles had their launches skewered in 2023 – with EVs not helping matters in the slightest.

General Motors has issued a stop-sale order for the all-electric Chevrolet Blazer. As previously reported, the model has been criticized for presenting reviewers with electrical problems. That’s not what you want to see from any vehicle and absolutely intolerable on an EV. Even worse is the fact that the Blazer EV uses the Ultium platform GM claims is about to underpin its future lineup.

General Motors’ fortunes are tied heavily to its new Ultium EV technology. It underpins several existing and upcoming models and is the basis of the automaker’s EV efforts, costing billions of dollars and years of development. A few Ultium-based models have already gone on sale without too many issues, including the GMC Hummer EV and Cadillac Lyriq, but the most recent release hasn’t gone so smoothly. The Chevrolet Blazer EV has recently failed in two high-profile tests by automotive publications, raising questions about its electrical system and software.

The Chevrolet Trax was once on my short list for worst vehicles on the market.

I remember some years ago, before joining TTAC, going to San Diego for the launch of the first-generation Trax. All I could think was that the little runabout was something to be avoided unless you just wanted cheap transport in crossover form.

It’s the end of the line (again) for the Chevy Camaro. According to reports, the brand has wrapped up production of the model entirely, a few weeks past its best-before date thanks to delays partially brought on by UAW strike action earlier this year.

Today's UCOTD is a rolling, running, though perhaps not driving, project car. This 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu has a few interesting things going on.

Today we're going in a different direction and bringing you a track-focused 1979 Chevrolet Malibu.

The Chevrolet Volt was a surprisingly decent car with an innovative powertrain and attractive styling, but its time came to an end a few years back. The NHTSA hasn’t forgotten about it, however, as the government agency recently opened an investigation into the car and its reported tendency to lose power while driving.

Today we go old school for a 1956 Chevrolet 150 that has 100,000 miles on the clock and looks ready to drive.

If you can drive a car without modern power-assist systems, that is. This bad boy is old school.

Today's UCOTD is a rare one, at least for us -- we tend to pull from the same mix partly because of how we perceive the tastes of the B and B and partly because certain forums are simply more active than others.

Well, today, this 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle floated up into the list I use to pull picks from.

Despite growing in number and popularity, EVs are still too expensive, and most are significantly pricier than comparable gas models. Even with government tax credits and other incentives, electric models are out of reach for many buyers, and the seemingly constant pricing fluctuations aren’t helping. Chevy originally announced that the upcoming Equinox EV would start at around $30,000, but the automaker recently crushed our hopes and dreams with – you guessed it – a price increase.

What was the most fuel-efficient (mass-produced, internal combustion-powered, highway-legal, non-gray-market, four-wheeled, et freakin' cetera) new car available in the United States during the 1980s? No, not the Toyota Starlet or Corolla Tercel, not the Honda CRX HF, not the Subaru Justy. It was the Chevrolet Sprint ER, and I've found a nicely intact example in a car graveyard just east of Sacramento.

Chevrolet will be debuting a new corporate slogan during the first game of Major League Baseball's World Series. The decade-old "Find New Roads" will be supplanted with “Together Let’s Drive” during a commercial for the Chevy Trax that’s focused on promoting the vehicle’s affordability.

The brand has had loads of slogans and some are definitely better than others. While we’re prone toward remembering whatever jingles were playing during our formative years, the true value of specific taglines can probably be measured by how long they stuck around.

Following news that production of the Chevrolet Silverado EV would be delayed, General Motors has announced that the Chevy Equinox EV would likewise be arriving behind schedule.

The postponement was announced as part of GM’s earnings report, with CEO Mary Barra citing improvements the company would like to make to the product as well as some market challenges. Some of that revolves around using the time to better manage capital investment related to EV demand (or lack thereof) while the rest seems to apply to engineering changes that might make the vehicles more profitable.