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No Surprise: GM's next-generation of large SUVs reportedly due by 2013

– Click above for high-res image gallery Listen to enough of the bloviation, and you'll start to believe that full-size, traditional SUVs are the root of all evil. While the hue and cry has gone up far and wide branding these truck-based vehicles as four-wheeled carcinogens, there are enough legitimate reasons to purchase a Chevrolet Suburban or Cadillac Escalade that General Motors is going ahead with the next generation. SUVs have traditionally been healthy profit-earners for General Motors. Though sales dropped by 25 percent in ... Read more →

GM recalls Camaro, Traverse, SUVs/pickups for various issues Jonathon Ramsey

General Motors and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have announced a suite of recalls for the Chevrolet Camaro, Traverse and various body-on-frame SUVs and pickups (Cadillac's ...

Whither Suburbia? Virginia all but outlaws cul-de-sac construction in face of traffic costs Jonathon Ramsey

Virginia lawmakers are taking a metaphorical battering ram to suburban culs-de-sac, those little dead-end roundabouts that are almost all adorned with a yellow sign saying "No Outlet." Caught out by ...

Tahoe, Yukon and Escalade not being replaced Jeremy Korzeniewski

The full-size SUV's future is on shaky legs and now, reports have surfaced that General Motors has killed the next generation Tahoe and Yukon 'utes, just weeks after announcing it would shutter its ...

Review: 2008 Toyota Sequoia Limited Dan Roth

Gigantor. The 2008 Toyota Sequoia arrives humongously revised from the already beefy first-generation. The Timberland Mica (Metallic Green) example that Toyota lent us for a week definitely ...

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Be like Tony Soprano. Drive his truck. 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for photo gallery var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/television/Be_like_Tony_Soprano_Drive_his_truck'; Long before Tony Soprano rolled in his Escalade, a red Suburban was his ride of choice. Fans of The Sporanos will remember it very well, of course, and as the truck Tony drives in the ...

Minivans: not just for Soccer-Moms 2 years ago on Autoblog

My uncle's motoring choice has always had me a little puzzled. He's got a garage full of Mercedes, Range Rovers, Hummers and a Magnum PI-style Ferrari 308 GTS that he never drives. What does he drive instead? A Chrysler minivan. Chances are you know somebody like that, too. Over at the Kicking ...

In the Autoblog Garage: 2007 Ford Expedition EL 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view more pics of the 2007 Ford Expedition EL Ford's new Expedition EL has to follow in some huge footsteps – or, perhaps more appropriately, tire tracks. The stretched-wheelbase SUV not only has to do battle with GM's Suburban and Yukon XL duo (long the sales leaders in ...

Lutz lets a bit of Edmunds survey slip, GM takes 13 first place picks 2 years ago on Autoblog

Sometimes news is just too good to keep to yourself. Just ask GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. With his company supposedly claiming 13 spots on Edmund's Consumers' Most Wanted list, Lutz just had to brag a bit on the corporate blog before the winners were made public. And he should brag. Most other car ...

America's Game, America's Truck: Rawlings baseball trim for Chevy trucks 2 years ago on Autoblog

Remember when Audi rolled out the baseball leather interior on the original TT convertible? That was nothing. For the real baseball fans, aftermarket trim specialists Katzkin Leather and sports equipment outfitter Rawlings have teamed up to offer a full, authentic baseball trim package for ...

Weight watchers: Are heavy trucks and SUVs illegal on some California roads? 2 years ago on Autoblog

Pop quiz: if you're driving an H2 and you see a sign forbidding vehicles above 6,000 pounds to use a street, do you avoid that street? Neither does anyone else. In a sarcastic, meandering article touching on carbon dioxide, gasoline, SUV-haters, municipal codes, and testosterone, the LA Times looks ...

GM releases pics of Z71 package on GMT900 SUVs 3 years ago on Autoblog

Without so much as an accompanying press release, General Motors released a slew of new images yesterday that show us what the Z71 off-road package looks like on two of the three GMT900 model SUVs. The Avalanche, Tahoe and Suburban are available with a Z71 package that adds, of course, the Z71 ...

GM supplying MTV with fleet of custom E85 vehicles and Chip Foose Tahoe Concept 3 years ago on Autoblog

General Motors has teamed up with the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards to supply the event with a fleet of 60 E85 capable Chevy Tahoe, Avalanche and Suburban vehicles. The fleet will be used to transport "talent" (we use that term loosely) to the event and also get the word out about the first E85 ...

Chevy Suburban with Z71 package surfaces 3 years ago on Autoblog

Some resourceful members of the GMInsideNews community managed to grab what appears to be official pics somewhere of a Chevy Suburban wearing the not-yet-released Z71 offroad package. Rather than being purely cosmetic, the Z71 package will add a host of real mechanical upgrades to the Suburban, ...

New York Auto Show: 85 FFV SUVs make a scene outside show 3 years ago on Autoblog

The sight of 85 Tahoes triple-parked in Manhattan is one to behold. GM parked the fleet of flex-fuel SUVs in front of the Javits center today to make a green scene before they're picked up and driven off to various New York dealerships. The group also contains the first ten flex-fuel Suburbans off ...

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Autoblog Podcast #169: Wagons and SuperDuty and NASCAR, Oh My!

Chris Shunk, Alex Nunez, Sam Abuelsamid and Dan Roth talk about the Cadillac CTS-V SportWagon, Acura TSX Wagon, Honda CR-Z, Ford SuperDuty, and NASCAR carnage - plus the usual tangents