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The proverb “a leopard cannot change its spots” has existed for centuries, but you’d swear that it was coined for pony cars and the performance war that American automakers have been waging since the 1960s. Two oil crises, the increasing strict laws on fuel consumption, pollution, safety and one or …

It’s all too easy to gang up on General Motors. In fact, it’s all too easy to gang up on American auto manufacturers in general. In fact, it’s not the crash safety standards, emissions, or consumption legislation that Ford, Chevy, and Dodge fear… it’s the perception they must endure. But …

Lord, did I ever want to like this car. As a former Camaro owner never quite lucky enough to stumble upon the ’69 Z28 I always wanted, the notion of these new, retro Camaros has had me excited ever since Bumblebee leapt onto the silver screen a few years back.

Once known as muscle cars, North American sports cars have been enjoying resurgence over the last three years. Incidentally, that’s since the Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger came on the scene, joining the Ford Mustang and its years of uninterrupted production. With the public firmly behind more environmentally friendly cars …

A little less than two years ago, the Chevrolet division offered up its Camaro sport coupe, after an absence of several years. It came back with an extremely modern shape and a platform developed in Australia by the Holden division, the manufacturer’s rear wheel drive specialist. Impressive handling, a heck …

I can remember it like it was yesterday; it’s flat green paint looking distinctly haggard in the gleaming sun, the creased front fender leeching the rainbow hues of iron oxide down its flanks. Inside, the interior appeared to be unchanged since its creation in 1970, the familiar four speed shifter …

Several days ago, General Motors invited a group of journalists to the factory where the Camaro is built. In Oshawa, a city of 150,000 people located an hour east of Toronto, is home to an enormous manufacturing complex operated by General Motors Canada. Active since the 1950s, this city-within-a-city is …

When I turned 16, I wanted nothing more than a proper, honest-to-goodness muscle car. But, having last been produced decades earlier, they weren’t exactly populous in the municipality of Richmond, BC. Flipping through the local Buy & Sell would reveal just a few examples of decent muscle cars, and the …

The Chevrolet Camaro is one of the most spectacular cars for sale this year. In fact, GM has just revamped this legendary model, adapting it to modern preferences. And contrary to what some people say, this vehicle was not brought back to save what used to be the world’s number-one …

While the Ford Mustang has always been very popular and Chrysler was about to launch its superb Dodge Challenger a few years ago, the engineers and designers at GM had to bust their humps to find a fast and economical alternative. It wasn’t enough to simply pull out the previously …