Yearly Archives: 2015

2015 GMC Canyon SLT 4WD

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2015 GMC Canyon SLT 4wd - 6 of 23

My first vehicle that I ever bought with my own money and had registered in my name was the direct progenitor of the most recent vehicle I’ve had a chance to drive. Just shy of 30 years ago as I entered the second half of my freshman year at was then GMI Engineering & Management Institute (since renamed to Kettering University) I bought an 18-month-old 1984 GMC S15 pickup. All these years later, the most compact pickup you can buy from GMC is now called the Canyon and frankly it’s not so compact anymore. Does this midsize pickup make sense anymore?

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2015 Chevrolet Cruze Diesel – Exceptional Real World Efficiency

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2015 Chevrolet Cruze Diesel - 7 of 26In the early-1980s, General Motors almost single-handedly poisoned the American market for diesel-engined passenger cars for more than a generation. Aside from the most hardcore Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz fans, most American drivers were so put off by the failures of the Oldsmobile diesel V8 that they wouldn’t even consider a diesel in anything but a heavy-duty truck for nearly three decades. Thus it was fitting that GM should be the first Detroit-based automaker to reintroduce a diesel-powered car with the 2013 debut of the Chevrolet Cruze diesel.

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"He is the autocrat's autocrat"

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Five years ago this month, I accompanied David Kiley out to Bob Lutz's farm to film the exit interview that David was conducting for +Popular Mechanics. As Lutz prepared to retire for the final time +General Motors, he shared some thoughts on some of the people he worked with and came to know during the course of his career. Given, this weekend's news about Ferdinand Piech's departure from the Volkswagen AG supervisory board, I thought I'd share one of the clips that didn't make it into the final cut.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a5791/bob-lutz-exit-interview/

I first heard of Quirky through a short-lived reality competition show on Sundance Channel a few years back

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At the time, it seemed like an interesting concept but they were proceeding with some dubious product ideas. I'm frankly surprised the company lasted as long as it did.

Exclusive: the secret struggles of Quirky, a seemingly successful startup
In February of this year, the staff of the New York startup Quirky gathered at the company’s headquarters on the West Side of Manhattan. Hundreds of community members also tuned in to a live stream…