GM fires up for New York Motor Show

By Matt Brogan | April 07th, 2009

As General Motors continues to battle through its financial mire, it will, for a short time at least, set aside these issues to host an impressive display at this year’s New York International Auto Show.

Featuring newly introduced production vehicles from Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC and SAAB, GM will also showcase its electric, luxury concept car the Cadillac Converj.

As a special highlight Chevrolet, in cooperation with DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures, it will also highlight some automotive stars from the upcoming movie, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.”

Buick is set to introduce its completely redesigned 2010 Buick LaCrosse luxury sedan. LaCrosse offers a choice of two V6 engines; all-wheel drive; and a suite of advanced intelligent personal technologies and safety features.

Designed inside and out with great attention to detail, craftsmanship and advanced technology, LaCrosse is expected to go on sale from mid-2009.

GMC will display its 2009 Sierra Hybrid. The Sierra Hybrid achieves 40 per cent greater city fuel economy than the non-hybrid model, while delivering all the capability of a full-size pick-up.

The LaCrosse and Sierra Hybrid will be joined by several other recently introduced vehicles from the Buick-Pontiac-GMC channel, including Pontiac G6, Pontiac G8 GXP, Pontiac Solstice Coupe and Pontiac G3.

Cadillac, in addition to the Converj, will showcase its dramatic new designs, including a pair of important new production models focused on the changing priorities of luxury consumers.

The 2010 SRX Crossover is Cadillac’s next-generation luxury crossover vehicle, bringing a more dynamic design to the crossover category. With new, smaller engines and a high-tech, new all-wheel-drive system, the SRX is redesigned for increased efficiency and safety.

Cadillac also will showcase the 2010 CTS Sport Wagon, a progressive new take on the classic wagon body style. The CTS Sport Wagon, slated to hit the streets in May, is based on Cadillac’s best-selling CTS Sport Sedan.

Chevrolet brings its 2010 Chevrolet Equinox crossover to the show along with its Volt EV, Camaro and 2011 Cruze.

The 2011 Chevrolet Cruze is an all-new, compact sedan expected to go on sale in the United States and Canada in 2010. Cruze will be powered by an optional new 1.4-litre turbocharged engine or an efficient 1.8-litre engine, both of which will be mated to a six-speed automatic transmission.

The 2011 Chevrolet Spark, a four-door mini car that combines youthful exterior and interior design with outstanding fuel economy, will also share the Chevy stage.

Spark will be sold in several markets around the globe starting in 2010 before going on sale across the US in 2011.

And finally, SAAB will debut its versatile 9-3X sport wagon at the show. The 9-3X is equipped to handle rough terrain with a raised ride height and sure-footed grip from SAAB’s cutting edge XWD system.

With distinctive looks, including new bumpers and a protective lower body treatment, the 9-3X offers a lighter alternative to heavier and larger crossovers or SUVs.

http://www.littlepixiegifts.com.au Gift-Ed

GM are really getting a kicking atm, and most of it deserved. Still, this shows they are lifting their game – e.g. Camaro. I hope they survive.
Phil

Will we get the 1.4 turbo in the local Cruze? Could be a good selling point if so.
http://caradvise.com Schah7

G.M displayed a bunch of “clone” vehicles which have already put them near BANKRUPTCY,made by too many
suppositively “different” brands.
You[G.M]have COST the TAXPAYER TOO MUCH in HANDOUTS now.
A resent survey indicated over 60% of the American people
felt G.M “going under” would have little affect on the U.S
economy.!
Wake UpG.M before too late.!
Deano

Hopefully they didn’t spend *too* much time on the “advanced intelligent personal technologies”, there’s another type of service provider one can go to this for this kind of thing.

It does look like they are slowly starting to change their focus and direction… hopefully not too late to avoid extinction.
Bret

Gee what a gallary of horror. Not one remotely attractive vehicle in any of those photos (maybe the truck, but …)
Bavarian Missile (.)(.)

Lets hope they dont have an Atlas ,the rest of the world wont want any of it,except the Camaro of course……….
Frontman

Sorry but spending money on concepts rather than immediate is not the way forward. You can rosy up the future as much as you want, only after you are on top of the NOW.
http://skyline The Salesman

GM should call their NY show “Revenge of the Fallen.” Why throw more money away on a motorshow? To show unemployed New Yorkers what they can no longer afford to buy? Or are they really just promoting the movie. I guess the movie has more chance of making money.
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That Cruze looks kinda like the Toyota Aurion lol.

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Supply & Demand

1997 Daewoo Lanos + reskin = Holden Epica + raised ride height = Holden Captiva + reskin = CTS Sports Wagon? God I hope I’m wrong. They look similar though.
Richo

Supply & Demand – don’t worry, you are wrong.

Phil – From what I understand the 1.4ltr turbo petrol four will make its way into the Holden produced variant of the cruze. Part of the federal government funding was that holden had to introduce fuel efficient engines into the range, the 1.4 and a hybrid variant is what Holden needs to fill this federal government requirement and apparently both will be available straight away when the Holden built version is launched next year.
Supply & Demand

Phew!
Richo

Yeah mate the Cruze is based on the next version of the Opel Astra and shares its drivetrains with the next opel astra, some people are still talking about it being an old Daewoo because it is being built in one of the old daewoo factories, but its a 100% all new design based on Opel stuff. It’s no different to how a Toyota Hilux is built in Thailand
http://pirelli topdog

Gee out of all those cars theres only 1 that didnt look to bad there all just crap looking no wonder there in trouble.Thay just keep trying to make silly looking cars to grab attention or thay just keep making old car wit ha modern twist these stupid retro things some are ok but thay all just get tiring
http://pirelli itsme

Richo it dosent matter were cars are made as all car makers are getting there cars made all over the place nowdays.What matters is who makes the designs and develops them then thay just get them built were ever.So a hilux has still been developed and designed bye toyota thats all that maters.
Richo

umm yeah mate that was kind of my point…!
Wheelnut

Topdog your right – GM are on the verge of bankruptcy yet they obviously don’t realise that [poor quality] cars like the Cadillacs are one of the reasons they are in the shi!t.

Most car manufacturers design “global” cars which have international appeal and can be sold in other countries whereas GMs is still solely focussed on the USA.

As Motor magazine said in a recent article “the ingorant arrogant small-town mindset in Detroit has compounded the problem.”
Cupid Stunt

Wheelnut you mention quality – hit the nail straight on the head. We have just got our Audi A6 2.7TDi compared to the Vectra 3.0CDTi is waaay ahead in driving terms build quality etc etc and for only £3000 more here. The Vectras awfull in comparison, so next year it goes to be replaced by an A6 as well. Cheerio GM
Bret

Richo, keep spreading the propaganda.
Everyone knows it’s a new design, but if you take off the blinkers everyone also knows that it IS a GMDAT design. Yeah we all know there was imput from other GM divisions (heck GMDAT even did some of the design work in a GM Europe facility) but it IS designed by GM DAEWOO on the GM global platform.
Personally I’m looking forward to seeing the Aussie styled 3 door version.