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The 2022 Chevrolet Silverado ZR2. (Media.chevrolet.com)
General, Machinery, Reuters

GM’s pickup money machine gets a technology tuneup

Silverado ZR2 to appeal to extreme off-roading segment

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Detroit | Reuters — General Motors will give its best-selling Chevrolet Silverado large pickup truck models a makeover next spring to fix competitive shortcomings that have left Chevy in third place in one of the most lucrative vehicle market segments in the world. Catching up with rival trucks from Stellantis NV and Ford Motor Co., […] Read more
GM’s CAMI assembly plant at Ingersoll, Ont. (GM.ca)
General, Machinery, Reuters

GM to cut North American production, citing chip shortage

Both GM, Ford cutting truck production

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Washington | Reuters — General Motors will reduce production at most North American assembly plants this month because of the ongoing semiconductor chip shortage, hitting its profitable truck and sport utility vehicles, it said Thursday. The largest U.S. automaker will halt production next week at its Fort Wayne plant in Indiana and its Silao plant […] Read more
Screenshot from a U.S. NHTSA video showing a rupturing Takata airbag inflator. (Nhtsa.gov via YouTube)
General, Machinery, Reuters

Ford recalling older-model Rangers over airbag inflators

Deaths, injuries linked to faulty inflators

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Washington | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. is recalling 153,000 older trucks that may have had obsolete Takata air bag modules installed in collision and theft repairs after the Takata recall was completed, the automaker said on Thursday. The second-largest U.S. automaker identified about 8,800 Ford Ranger 2004-06 trucks in Canada and 144,340 in the […] Read more
A 2017 Chevrolet Silverado pickup. (Media.gm.com)
General, Machinery, Reuters

Canada opens probe into GM pickups, SUVs over brake performance

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Reuters — Transport Canada, the auto safety regulator, has opened a probe into braking issues in nearly 250,000 General Motors full-size pickups and SUVs after U.S. officials launched a similar probe last year, the agency said on its website. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in November into 2.73 million U.S. 2014-2016 model […] Read more
New GM 4500HD and 5500HD trucks will begin production in 2018.
Machinery

GM to unveil “all-new” Class 4 and 5 trucks

GM set to debut its redesigned medium-duty Silverado trucks in March

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General Motors has chosen to introduce its newest medium duty trucks, the 4500HD and 5500HD models, at the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 6. It’s calling them “all-new”. As you might expect, there’ll be Duramax diesels under the hoods mated to Allison automatic transmissions. There will be a variety of wheelbases available in both […] Read more
GM’s 2016 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. (Chevrolet.ca)
Machinery, Reuters

Sources say GM to use Oshawa plant to expand pickup output

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Toronto | Reuters — General Motors will use its Oshawa, Ont. assembly plant to expand production of pickup trucks for the North American market if a tentative agreement with Canadian auto workers is ratified, sources familiar with Canadian labour negotiations said Wednesday. Oshawa’s manufacturing plant, which employs some 2,500 workers, will install component parts and […] Read more
PHOTOS: PHOTO GALLERY: A look back at pickup trucks
Machinery

PHOTOS: PHOTO GALLERY: A look back at pickup trucks

How manufacturers tried to convince farmers to buy trucks in the ’60s

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Stacked! Built!” are the first two words in the body of this Mercury Trucks advertisement from the early 1960s. Clearly, they have that nudge-nudge-wink-wink feel to them. I’m pretty sure those terms had the same double entendre meaning back then that they do today. No current marketing manager would ever let that kind of ad […] Read more
The Silverado is available with three different engine options, a 4.3 V-6 along with 5.3 and 6.2 litre V-8s.
Machinery

A new face for the Silverado 1500

GM gives its Silverado truck a facelift and some digital updates for 2016

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The 2016 Silverado that GM sent to the Canadian Truck King Challenge in October was a preproduction model, so the event judges were among the first Canadians to get behind the wheel of one. Unfortunately because it was a preproduction model, it will soon be crushed; it can’t be sold. That’s a real shame, because […] Read more
pickup truck on assembly line
Machinery

A brand new Colorado for 2015

GM stakes a claim in the small-truck marketplace with a “mid-sized” Colorado

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GM describes its 2015 Colorado as an all-new, midsize pickup with the style and versatility of a truck and the refinement, manoeuvrability and efficiency of a crossover. The brand hopes it will appeal to those who want some respectable capability in a truck but are looking for ease of manoeuvrability and better fuel economy ratings. […] Read more

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