In order to keep its North American operations profitable going into the future, General Motors announced a new restructuring plan today, which involves scaling back on its SUVs and pickup trucks and putting more emphasis on economical, fuelefficient compact cars. A total of four plants will be shut down by the end of the decade, including Moraine, which builds the GMT360 SUVs TrailBlazer, Envoy, 97x by 2010 Oshawa, which builds the GMT900 pickups Silverado, Sierra by 2009 Toluca, which builds the mediumduty trucks such as the TopKick and Kodiak, and Janesville which produces GMT900 SUVs Yukon, Yukon XL, Tahoe, Suburban. The news is particularly difficult for those who work at the Oshawa plant, building the Silverado and Sierra, as less than twenty days ago the CAW and General Motors reached an agreement that would see the truck plant continue operations, in hopes that the production of the Silverado and Sierra Hybrids would boost sales. Read More

GMrsquos European divisions will be presenting two new and important concept Spooky Ghostlike 91X a spectre of Saab39s upcoming compact car Photo Saab vehicles at this yearrsquos Geneva auto show. Read More

Earlier this year, Saab boss Jan Ake Jonsson suggested to a group of Saab enthusiasts that the brand would be interested in entering the compact premium segment, a class thats quickly growing in popularity across the globe. Read More

Following the launch of the redesigned 93 with its brand new Haldexdeveloped XWD drivetrain, the brand is well on its way to launching an allnew product. Read More

This September, Saab will be celebrating three decades of turbochargedpower. The late 1970s might not be too far back, and Saab might not have been the first car manufacturer to tinker with turbines, but they were the first to apply these boostgenerating works of engineering to an entire lineup of mainstream cars. Read More

Just in time for the summer season, the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety IIHShas just announced the results from its latest crashtest fest. Read More

Sporty wagons are cool. It could be due to the fact that companies with reallysporty wagons are premium brands such as Audi, BMW or in this case, Saab. Read More

In terms of Swedish cars, Saab is most definitely overshadowed and underrated. Despite being built by a company thats historically famed for building jets, Saab seems to live in the shadows of a company that used to make ball bearings go figure. Read More

Saab, for all intents and purposes, is still Saab. With the little exception that everyone seems to have forgotten ndash the Imprezabased 92x ndash and the other exception that most Saab loyalists havent quite forgotten yet ndash the 97x ndash Saabs engineers generally get what they want following tradition. Read More

With summer having drawn to a close I am most likely in possession of my last convertibleroadster for a while. Read More

Red Herring Saab station wagons, or SportCombis as they are now called, are a relatively recent phenomenon. Read More

If you are a Saab fan, this is the car that youve been waiting to see in the metal for five years now. Read More

Whenever we hear the term ldquocockpitrdquo being used to describe the interior froma drivers perspective, one of the few car companies that can claim credit for the verbiage appropriateness is Saab. Read More