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Great news for full-size pickup buyers: General Motors today announced that its Oshawa assembly plant will resume production earlier than planned. Instead of January 2022, trucks will start rolling off the line sometime during the fourth quarter of this year. No date has been specified yet. Oshawa built its final …

Continental Tire has issued a recall covering approximately 100,000 Continental, General and Barum tires in North America due to a manufacturing defect that could cause a blowout. Nearly two dozen vehicle brands are affected including Acura, Audi, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Fiat, GMC, Honda, Jeep, Lexus, Lincoln, …

The ongoing chip shortage continues to have major repercussions across the auto industry, including in Canada where Ford, Stellantis and General Motors have all had to idle production. GM even said recently that its Ingersoll assembly plant will remain on pause at least until mid-April. Want another example? Consider this: …

What kind of changes do the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 have in store for the 2022 model year? General Motors should make some annoucements in the next few months, but you can expect fewer options under the hood. According to a presentation the automaker gave at the …

Every year, The Car Guide unveils a list of Best Buys covering all the different vehicle categories in the industry. Full-size pickup sales are extremely strong across the country. The American manufacturers completely dominate the segment, so you’ll see the same names here, except in a different order than last …

General Motors and Ford announced massive recalls in November 2020 and January of this year, respectively, due to faulty airbags. Over 9 million vehicles were said to be affected. And now we know exactly how many of those are in Canada. According to recall notices posted by Transport Canada, a …

The GMC Sierra 1500 is our Best Buy for 2021 in the large pickup segment and it doesn’t have many reasons to envy the competition. However, there’s one area where the brand needs to catch up. As we’ve just found out, the Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving system that is so …

General Motors’s Oshawa Assembly Plant, which stopped building vehicles in December 2019 and is being converted into a stamping facility, will resume pickup production in 2022. That’s part of the new tentative deal between the automaker and the Unifor auto workers announced on Thursday morning. Members of the union will …

The GMC Sierra was completely redesigned two years ago and the next generation is not expected to debut before the second half of the current decade, but that doesn’t mean General Motors designers can’t look to the future, experiment with all sorts of things and have a little fun in …

General Motors cannot realistically catch the Ford F-150 in terms of sales, especially with the latter coming to market this fall with a brand new generation, but that doesn’t mean it should wait a year or two to make some upgrades. After launching a completely redesigned GMC Sierra for 2019 …