Late last year, General Motors (GM) announced that it would close a plant in Ontario, Canada, to save money. In recent months, the company has backtracked on that decision, saving over 300 jobs. However, the plant current employs 2,600 workers, so many more will still lose their jobs. The plant in Oshawa, east of Toronto was scheduled to close completely at the end of this … [Read more...]
Would GM Bring Back Hummer?
Here at Motoring Weekly, we recently read an article in Automotive News about whether General Motors will resurrect the Hummer brand. This was on the back of sales successes for large SUVs and in recent days we have seen reports that RAM pretty much saved FIAT Chrysler in June with ever increasing sales. Let's start by looking at the brand that had a love/hate relationship with … [Read more...]
BMW Self Driving Consortium
Over the last few weeks, Motoring Weekly has been publishing articles about the companies behind the scenes of autonomous vehicle development. Most are unknown to the general public, however this article covers a name that everyone knows about: BMW. Firstly though, it is important to define what “autonomous” means and the levels of autonomy that the industry has agreed on - … [Read more...]
Extreme Weather Shuts Factories
This is something that most people don’t consider when they think about car production: how the weather can affect the volume of vehicles coming down the lines. In January, with the very bad weather that swept across the northern States of the US, one of the energy utilities put out a message to conserve gas because they were worried about supplies. General Motors was asked … [Read more...]
The American V4 Engine
Some months ago here at Motoring Weekly, we wrote about the V12 motor developed by some Australians who “stretched” a General Motors LS1 V8 to be effectively 1.5 engines - and they were casting a full block rather than connecting two motors together. Now we have found a company that has gone the other way with the LS1 - they have shrunk it down to a V4. Motus, a now defunct … [Read more...]