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Brand New GM Full-Size Trucks Sold With Cracked Roof Panels

It’s not uncommon for new vehicles to suffer from various bugs and quality issues, but the recent case involving GM’s full-size pickups is still rather alarming. In the U.S., the automaker was forced to stop sales and recall some 3,000 units of the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra (including …December 20, 2023

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GM Recalls 163,000 SUVs and Pickups With Faulty Headlights in Canada

General Motors this week announced a recall affecting large SUVs and pickups in Canada. The problem is nothing too serious, but the number of units involved certainly is. We’re talking about 163,611 vehicles overall. Essentially, the automatic headlamps may not turn on soon enough as it becomes dark outside. Canadian …August 29, 2023

2024 GMC Sierra HD Gets Big Update, Two New Trims Including AT4X

Just a few days after the introduction of the refreshed and upgraded 2024 Chevrolet Silverado HD (not to mention the 2023 Ford Super Duty and Ram 2500 Rebel ), its GMC sibling is showing up with similar improvements. The 2024 Sierra HD will start to arrive in Canadian dealerships early …October 6, 2022

Chip Shortage Prompts GM to Delete Heated Seats and Steering Wheels

UPDATED 11/222021--GM has changed course and now says that dealers will be able to retrofit heated and ventilated seats in mid-2022, at GM's expense. It will discount vehicles missing heated or ventilated seats by $50. However, heated steering wheels cannot be retrofitted, so vehicles missing that feature will still be …November 15, 2021

GM Moving Fast to Clear Backlog of Pickups Amid Chip Shortage

The ongoing chip shortage continues to drastically limit vehicle production. North American assembly plants cut an estimated 26,000 more vehicles from their production plans last week, down from 84,000 the week before but over six times more than the 4,000 units that weren’t built in the first full week of …October 25, 2021

Several GM Heavy-Duty Pickups Once Again Recalled Over Fire Risk

General Motors has announced a recall on some of its heavy-duty pickups because a problem with the engine-block heater cable or the terminals that connect the heater cable to the block heater could cause a short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire. Affected models include the Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD …July 9, 2021

GM Steps Up to Speed Up Vehicle Deliveries in U.S., Canada

While a good chunk of the auto industry is severely affected by the ongoing global chip shortage, at a time when customer demand intensifies, General Motors today announced a series of steps it is taking to increase deliveries to dealers and customers in the U.S. and Canada. First, production of …June 3, 2021

GM Accelerates Start of Pickup Production in Oshawa

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 …May 5, 2021

GM’s Oshawa Plant to Resume Pickup Production in 2022

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 …November 5, 2020

Some GM Designers Had Way Too Much Fun With the Sierra

The GMC Sierra was completely redesigned two years ago and the next generation is not expected to debut before the second half of the current decade, but that doesn’t mean General Motors designers can’t look to the future, experiment with all sorts of things and have a little fun in …September 24, 2020

Updated 2021 GMC Sierra Trucks Make Towing Even Easier

General Motors cannot realistically catch the Ford F-150 in terms of sales, especially with the latter coming to market this fall with a brand new generation, but that doesn’t mean it should wait a year or two to make some upgrades. After launching a completely redesigned GMC Sierra for 2019 …September 18, 2020

GM Ramps up Full-size Pickup Production to Meet Demand

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 …August 3, 2020

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