Car Throttle

In Part 1 of this article, I covered 5 recent sales failures of the automotive world.  This time we dive into some more odd, idiotic, or just misjudged cars.  Onto the list... 5) Lincoln Blackwood

Luxury Pickup Truck.  That should be a contradictory term.  Pickup trucks are made to haul things, do work, go off-road: these are not luxurious attributes.  A Luxury Pickup Truck is a fairly stupid idea.  Yet, ask Cadillac: people buy stupid.  In their case, Escalade EXT's: an Escalade with a pickup bed.  Considering this is just a Chevrolet Avalanche (admittedly a pretty clever, if ugly, pickup truck) with some Cadillac trim glued on and a larger price tag, they sell quite a lot of them.  Sales were their highest in

In an undeniable sign of the times, General Motors announced that they would be axing their "HPVO" (Performance Vehicles Operation) division as part of brand-wide cost-cuts necessary for their "economic viability" plan for Congress.  This is alarming news for fans of GM performance vehicles, which is one thing the General does quite well. Don't put the Z06 in cryogenic storage just yet, though: it's not quite the end of the world as we know it. The team of 60 engineers, who worked near GM's headquarters in Detroit, have been redeployed elsewhere into the company to focus on development of more important core vehicles, like upcoming mainstream sedans and crossovers - in other words, the cars that real people will buy in large numbers, which is what GM needs