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11 May 2007 posted in Aftermarket 7 views
Hell hath frozen over: ROUSH begins selling high-performance parts for GM vehicles We heard rumblings from the underground that ROUSH was considering expanding its line of high-performance parts to vehicles not wearing the Blue Oval badge, and today the company that Jack built made ...
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9 April 2007 posted in SUVs 5 views
New York Auto Show: 2008 HUMMER H3 Alpha Click image for entire photo galleryWe can't wait to get our hands on the 2008 HUMMER H3 Alpha, because the other GM trucks we've driven that are equipped with the 5.3L V8 all make all the right sound ...
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5 March 2007 posted in Government/Legal 3 views
GM sued over inaccurate speedometers Looks like General Motors might be facing a class-action lawsuit over faulty speedometers. The Seattle Times is reporting a couple of owners have had the speedos in their GM SUVs give out, costing any ...
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4 December 2006 posted in Green views
AutoblogGreen for 12.04.06 Unsurprisingly, the future was on everyone's mind at the EDTA conference. Miles Automotive chairman Rubin Miles talked about the car his company will bring to the 2007 LA Auto Show, and Argonne Lab's ...
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14 August 2006 posted in Trucks/Pickups 3 views
Honda exec: No Tundra-fighter for US As Toyota readies its latest attempt to send a shock through the full-size pickup market with its new, fully-redesigned Tundra, Honda is quite content to stand on the sidelines and watch as the battle ...
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7 November 2005 posted in Aftermarket 5 views
Full Race turbo system for GM trucks The bad thing about trucks is that they weigh a lot. The good thing is that they offer a lot of underhood room for turbo plumbing. For those owners of late-model GM pickups with the GenIII or GenIV sm ...
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21 October 2005 posted in SUVs 8 views
Rebuilding the Detroit Diesel 6.2 I've never been a fan of the Detroit Diesel 6.2L engine that was so popular in GM trucks from the 1980s, probably because the GMC C1500 that my dad had as a shop truck was about the slowest vehicle I' ...
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29 September 2005 posted in Ask Autoblog 13 views
Ask Autoblog: What determines a truck's payload capacity? In our post on truck payload capacities, one of our readers asked about the physical differences between trucks rated for different payloads. I'll take a crack at describing this, but space limitation ...
Tags: gas mileage, autoblog, rear axle, front suspension, hubs, gm trucks, payloads, wheel lugs, wheel trucks, chevy 1500hd, payload capacities, rear axles, payload capacity, duty trucks, physical differences, broad brush, space limitations, diffs, truck payload, cast iron
7 June 2005 posted in Aftermarket 28 views
STS Remote-Mount Turbo Kit Since my associate Walt just finished an AutoBlog Garage review of the 2005 GTO, I thought it would be nice to hunt down some aftermarket add-ons that one could use to liven up the Goat. STS Turbo has ...
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