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Great news for full-size pickup buyers: General Motors today announced that its Oshawa assembly plant will resume production earlier than planned. Instead of January 2022, trucks will start rolling off the line sometime during the fourth quarter of this year. No date has been specified yet. Oshawa built its final …

General Motors and Ford announced massive recalls in November 2020 and January of this year, respectively, due to faulty airbags. Over 9 million vehicles were said to be affected. And now we know exactly how many of those are in Canada. According to recall notices posted by Transport Canada, a …

General Motors’s Oshawa Assembly Plant, which stopped building vehicles in December 2019 and is being converted into a stamping facility, will resume pickup production in 2022. That’s part of the new tentative deal between the automaker and the Unifor auto workers announced on Thursday morning. Members of the union will …

Just a few weeks after announcing a series of updates and enhancements to the Silverado 1500 for 2021, Chevrolet strikes back with a revised and more capable Silverado HD . The towing war is far from over, folks. Thanks to hardware upgrades to the suspension and packaging changes to the …

Demand for full-size pickups is even stronger than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic hit North America and production sites were forced to close for two months. In some parts of the U.S. and Canada, customers must wait an unusually long period of time to receive their orders. In order …

Last year, General Motors came up with a new electronic braking assist system called eBoost. It found its way into a few models including the all-new 2020 Chevrolet Corvette as well as the 2020 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickups. Basically, the system integrates the master cylinder, electro-hydraulic booster …

Many people will argue that pickup trucks have become too expensive. In fact, we wrote about it a while ago . Yet, demand continues to be strong and there are some who are looking for the ultimate luxury and capability. Chevrolet’s marketing director for trucks, Sandor Piszar, told The Detroit …

Demand for pickup trucks is showing no signs of fading. And even though General Motors’ Flint Assembly plant in Michigan currently operates three shifts, the automaker yesterday announced a $200 million CAD to increase production of the all-new Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD heavy-duty pickups, which begin shipping …

The long winter is finally over and the weather is now quite nice in most parts of the country. Ironically, in the past few days, both Ford and General Motors announced a recall on their full-size pickups due to engine block heater problems. Let’s start with the Blue Oval, where …