Mike Colias

DETROIT -- General Motors has set the base price of the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray coupe at $51,995, including destination charges, $1,400 more than the outgoing model. The base convertible will be $56,995 with destination, $1,240 more than its predecessor, GM said today . The pricing makes

DETROIT -- General Motors says its Chevrolet Spark EV will get the equivalent of 119 mpg in combined city and highway driving, the best efficiency of any U.S. car sold to retail buyers. The 2014 Spark EV, which will be launched this summer in California and Oregon, will have an EPA-rated range of

General Motors is overhauling its parts program, incentivizing dealerships to beef up their inventory for more same-day repairs and to buy more of those parts directly from the factory. GM bills the program, which was rolled out April 1, as a major push to keep service customers happy. The ...

DETROIT -- General Motors isn't facing pricing pressure from Japanese rivals yet, but the Japanese yen's falling value poses a "real threat" that could undercut GM's campaign to boost market share, a top executive said last week. For the past two years, GM has enjoyed strong pricing power. Yet Mark

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story mischaracterized Toyota Motor Sales' first-quarter U.S. market share. DETROIT -- The falling value of the Japanese yen poses "a real threat" to General Motors as it seeks to gain U.S. market share this year amid a slate of new-vehicle launches, a top

DETROIT -- Cadillac chief Bob Ferguson is expanding his executive team to help meet ambitious sales targets in the United States and overseas. Last week Ferguson picked Steve Majoros, a veteran of ad agency Campbell-Ewald and a force behind such well-known Chevrolet campaigns as "Like A Rock" and

DETROIT -- Cadillac chief Bob Ferguson is expanding and shuffling his executive team to speed the luxury brand's international growth. Don Butler, head of U.S. marketing since March 2010, has been reassigned as vice president of global strategic development for Cadillac, a newly created position.

DETROIT -- General Motors expects this month's launch of the redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Impala to boost sales of the tired nameplate and help revitalize the overall large-sedan segment. Don Johnson, Chevrolet's vice president of U.S. sales and service, believes that the Impala's styling and ample ...

DETROIT -- Fewer than one in three Chevrolet dealerships will be eligible to sell the 2014 Corvette Stingray when it begins rolling off the assembly line in late summer. Last week, General Motors notified about 900 of its roughly 3,000-plus Chevy dealerships that they have met the requirements to

NEW YORK -- For the 2014 CTS sedan, Cadillac is following the same playbook it used for the ATS compact: push performance and design, and go right after German rivals. Cadillac bills the redesigned CTS, which was unveiled on the eve of the New York auto show last week, as lighter than the BMW 5

NEW YORK -- The sound system perched over the Chevrolet stand at the auto show here last week roared so loudly with music, mixed in with the sounds of revving engines and screeching tires, that earplugs were handed out to the hundreds of onlookers gathered for Chevy's press conference. It was

On Jan. 26, Mike Bowsher had a record day at Carl Black Chevrolet-Buick-GMC of Orlando. About 1,000 people jammed his lot for a two-hour concert by Florida Georgia Line, an up-and-coming country band. In more than 15 years of hosting concerts at Bowsher's four Carl Black stores in Orlando, Atlanta

NEW YORK -- The accolades heaped on Cadillac's ATS compact sedan owe much to the built-from-scratch rear-wheel-drive architecture on which it rides. It's code-named Alpha, and it's the same platform that underpins the next-generation 2014 Cadillac CTS that was unwrapped last week on the eve of the

NEW YORK -- General Motors' speedy revision of the slow-selling Chevrolet Malibu reflects the company's new determination to fix problems quickly when they arise, rather than letting them linger until the next scheduled change. "When we see decay happening, or something that didn't work as well as

… strong and the redesigned RAV4, I think April will be like March," he said. "It's going to be a barn burner." Mike Colias , Diana T. Kurylko, Ryan Beene and Andrew Thurlow contributed to this report andnbsp;

DETROIT -- It has been just over two years since Mary Barra became the surprise pick to steer General Motors' global vehicle development, instantly rocketing her from a relative unknown to one of the industry's highest profile executives. She'll get a report card soon. Over the next 18 months, GM