Chevy Camaro – The Name
The name Camaro means pal, friend, or comrade. Thus, the word suggests the real mission of our new automobile – to be a close companion to its owner – tailored to reflect his or her individual tastes and at the same time provide exciting personal transportation. Chevrolet has chosen a name which is lithe, graceful, and in keeping with our other names beginning with ‘C’…..” “It suggests the comradeship of good friends…..as a personal car should be to its owner.
At Maguire Auto, certified nj car dealers, our mission is also the same. We strive our best to be loyal to our customers so that we may serve all of their automotive needs for many years to come.
GM ‘Fire Sale’ Generates Buzz
The fire sale initiated for Saturn and Pontiac cars for the December sales, has aroused the curiosity of many, this has been stated by two Pontiac dealers on Wednesday. General Motors has announced $7000 rebate on every Pontiac or Saturn Manufactured car that moves for rental or service fleet. Some dealers are not entirely sure that this is a good deal. The idea is to increase the sales by inducing buyers with lower rates. This decision to suddenly hike up the sales of Pontiac and Saturn cars has been made since General Motors has decided to bring an end to their nameplate, despite a major amount of restructuring done this year. General Motors deal with Penske Automobile Group regarding the sale of Saturn nameplate has also fallen through.
The factory rebate for Pontiac’s new models has already reached $6500, according to Fred Ferrara, General sales manager of Fairborn Buick Pontiac, GMC. He has also stated that the rebate will only apply if the cars are moved into the rental or service fleets for thirty days or thirty thousand miles. There are chances of making higher savings regarding taxes with brand new cars as compared to used cars. This has led to consumers invest in a new car instead for tax savings. Ferrara currently has only one Pontiac G6 coupe left on his lot. The remaining model will also sell in a short period of time. Buicks and GMC cars have also now picked up on the sales. Owner of Reichard Buick Pontiac GMC in Dayton, Gene Reichard claims that this fire sale has generated a lot of interest since it is a good offer. In two months, Reichard has sold 130 cars of Pontiac make. Buyers are not availing $6500 factory rebate, but also an additional $7000 rebate as well.
GM offer higher incentives to dealers to boost sales !
In order to hike up the sales, General Motors Company is offering higher incentives to its dealers. According to Wall Street Journal, General Motors is trying to dump the leftover stock from Pontiac and Saturn manufacturers in the market in order to increase the December sales of the particular car manufacturing brands. Wall Street Journal has also states that, General Motors has sent letter to its dealers stating that they are ready to pay $7000, every time a car manufactured by Saturn or Pontiac’s possession is transferred from their stock to that of rental-vehicle or service vehicle. These cars would be sold on second hand basis since these dealers are considered as owners of the car, hence the discounts availed on these cars will be high. This offer is going to last until the 4th of January since it is the last day for the General Motor Company to hike up their December car sales. General Motors will be booking the sales as fleet deliveries General Motors is planning to quit on Pontiac and Saturn and focus its attention on Hummers instead. General Motors’s contract to sell Saturn’s cars had collapsed in September, since then it has also pulled out of the contract to sell Opel by its European Unit. Currently its consignment of Hummers to a Chinese firm has been deferred and their deal with Saab cars is on a closure. This information has been provided by Reuters, but they were unable to get a comment from General Motors since it was past the US business hours.
Chevy Spark Review
In 2007 New York auto show, a design came up as a two-door version called ‘Beat’ along with two more concepts micro-crossover called ‘Trax’ and retro minivan called ‘Groove’.
The voting was done by open public to choose the out of three concepts. Beat got 1.9 million votes which was the majority one.
Spark is a vanilla hatchback as far as technology and basic architecture are concern. With the low price its execution and design are interesting one. Spark is expected to arrive in US in 2011, will be the smallest car ever sold in US.
Chevy Spark is just 143.3 inches long (+1.5 inch long for US), 62.9 inch width, 59.9 inch height, 1950 pounds in weight, 93.5 inch wheelbase, engineered carefully to provide European NCAP safety features.
In the base model, the cabin is monotone gray which gives depressive look, but LT trim have a metallic accents, garnishing body-color gives cheery, unique and modern look. In the top of the steering column there is a motorcycle-type pod instrument. There is conventional speedometer; graphical tech and fuel measure is mono LED screen.
Spark has 1.2 lit four cylinder engine. Spark is little noisy car, engine and tire makes noise when road surface is coarse or when you are hard on the choke. The technical team gives promise to give better NVH pack before the car is launched in US. Spark is a good choice for those who enjoy driving a car at low speeds.
Unlike most of the Asian micro cars, Spark is designed to look bigger than actual. Frontal view of the car is strong, upright nose with tall headlamps with creased bone lines on the outer edges of the hood. Side view is having big wheel housings with an additional shoulder at the rear. The cockpit is narrow over the rear wheels. The door locks are placed behind the side glass, high in the door frames. The handles are painted black which are hidden, giving clean look to the flanks of the car.