Archive for the ‘Chevrolet’ Category

Chevrolet TrailBlazer EXT stretches the cabin for more seats

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — From the southbound lane of State Street in Ann Arbor, a right turn into the freeway on-ramp for I-94, America’s northern interstate corridor, leads westward across Michigan toward Chicago, Minneapolis and, if you keep on driving, the end of the road at Seattle. Read the rest of this entry »

MILAN, Mich.  What can you say about a svelte two-seat sports car that runs to 40 mph in only the first of six forward gears, packs sophisticated hardware to control suspension, traction and brakes, and  with pedal pushed down to the medal  tops out at well over twice any legal highway speed? Read the rest of this entry »

Life is strange. One minute I?m driving an $80,000 luxury SUV, the next I?m behind the wheel of a $20,000 sedan. While I have to admit driving the luxury SUV is more satisfying, my personal wealth quotient dictates that for me affordability is an essential component of any purchase and so an occasional reality check is in order. There?s nothing wrong with being honest, it?s just not as attractive as pretending to have it all. Read the rest of this entry »

A comfortable family van now available with the safety of all-wheel-drive

It?s a known fact, if you want to hold the attention of a child, just wow them with some sort of technological feat. In the case of our 2002 Chevy Venture test vehicle, that meant standing back and pressing the remote entrance button for the sliding side door. Point, click and listen to the ?Ahhs!? and ?Hey, I want to try that!? Read the rest of this entry »

CHEVY COMES UP WITH A STRONG CONTENDER IN THE MID-SIZED SUV CLASS

Larger, stronger and with one of the best new engines a truck could ask for – Definitely not the old Blazer, thus the name change

(Blue Eye, MO) There’s nothing like a romp through the highways and byways of the Ozark Mountains to get a driver’s blood up. These are sports car roads after all. Imagine the surprise (and to some the shock) of being invited to the heart of the Ozarks to drive an SUV. Read the rest of this entry »

2002 Chevrolet S-10 ZR2
Bob Plunkett- CarTrackers Review Team

A truck with V6 kick makes off-roading easy

FORT WORTH, Tex. — To create a dirt-wheeling ZR2 off-road truck warrior, start with Chevrolet’s lively compact-class S-10 pickup equipped with a short bed in back and an extended cab up front, plus a six-pack of power beneath the hood and a strong transfer case to channel the engine’s torque to front as well as rear wheels for reliable traction on virtually any surface. Read the rest of this entry »

DALLAS, Tex. — Steering a stop-and-start course through the lively restaurant district of Dallas, we’re only inching up McKinney Avenue due to too much vehicular traffic on a Friday evening and too many intersections snagged by sluggish signals. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a car that is difficult to review, because it has so many positive attributes that one has to carefully pinpoint negative features while not seeming too nit-picky.

After all, the Corvette has received numerous accolades the past year, including being named to Car and Driver’s 10 Best List and selected by edmunds.com, a leading automotive Web site, as the best American sports car, beating out the Dodge Viper GTS ACR and the Ford SVT Mustang Cobra R. Read the rest of this entry »

BOISBRIAND, Quebec  Acre upon acre of muscle cars — Chevrolet’s legendary Camaro and Pontiac’s Firebird  cover a vast parking lot at the Saint Therese automotive plant by General Motors in Boisbriand, a suburb of Montreal in Canada’s French-flavored province of Quebec. Read the rest of this entry »

ANZA BORREGO DESERT, Calif. — We’re trucking over rivers of sand in a wadi that winds through California’s bleak Anza Borrego Desert, all tires scrambling for traction on an unusual vehicle that contains the abbreviated bed of a pickup plus the big cabin of a sport-utility wagon with four passenger doors and two rows of seats for six. Read the rest of this entry »