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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Filed under: SUVs , Plants/Manufacturing , Chevrolet , GM , GMC General Motors has announced that it wil close its SUV plant in Janesville, Wisconsin by the end of this year in response to the woeful market for utility vehicles. The plant produces the GMC Yukon and Chevy Suburban and employs 1,200 UAW workers. GM was originally planning to shutter the plant sometime before 2010, but deteriorating...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Suffolk County police say that a man was drunk driving a stolen SUV in Patchogue when he crashed the vehicle into a Patchogue home last night. Well, actually Frank Dawson wasn't in the car; Newsday reports that he "leaped from the sport utility vehicle on Clark Street -- as the big GMC Yukon was still moving -- and ran off... the truck continued to roll until it hit the home, going into the living...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
ON I-10, Texas -- Nancy and Ricardo Garcia loaded their GMC Yukon with gas cans, clothes, tortillas, beer and the many files they took when they fled ahead of Hurricane Ike. They left not knowing just how destructive the storm might be. On Tuesday, they ignored warnings to stay away and made the long journey home to find out.
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AskPatty - Automotive Advice For Wo (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Supersized Utility Wrapped up in a Pretty Green Package Transportation choices are limited for the family that requires seating for up to eight and the ability to tow a utility trailer or boat. Want to make that an eco-friendly choice...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
A 22-year-old pregnant Oxford Township woman — who was thrown from her bedroom into her backyard after a GMC Yukon crashed into her house Thursday night — is in good condition, Lt. Larry Perry, with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, said today.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
A 27-year-old Salt Lake City woman claims the sun was in her eyes last month when she hit and fatally injured a 65-year-old Maryland woman at the Salt Lake City International Airport Evelini Kinikini was driving her GMC Yukon near Terminal Two at about 8 p.
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Leftlane (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
General Motors’ Bob Lutz places hybrid vehicles third on his five-step fossil fuel addiction recovery program. After making cars more efficient and investing in biofuels but before producing plug-in electric cars and, eventually, fuel cell vehicles, Lutz wants to see GM move into hybrids. With this plan in mind, we decided to spend a few [...]
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Truckblog News (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
General Motors is building on the segment-leading fuel economy of its full-size pickups and SUVs with new XFE models of the 2009 Chevy Silverado, Chevy Tahoe, GMC Sierra and GMC Yukon' The vehicles use a combination of mechanical, aerodynamic and mass-reducing enhancements to deliver a 5-percent increase in EPA-estimated highway fuel economy and more than 7-percent improved mileage in city driving'...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
This fall, GM will introduce XFE versions (as in "xtra fuel economy") of its full-size Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks and the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon sport utility vehicles.
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Motor Authority (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
General Motors is building on the segment-leading fuel economy of its full-size pickups and SUVs with new XFE (eXtra Fuel Economy) versions of its 2009 Chevy Silverado, Chevy Tahoe, GMC Sierra and GMC Yukon models. Following on the success of the carmaker’s first XFE model, the Chevrolet Cobalt, which at an EPA rated 36mpg (6.5L/100km) [...]
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eGMCarTech (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
GM today announced XFE (Xtra Fuel-Economy) versions of the 2009 Chevrolet Tahoe, Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Yukon and GMC Sierra. Gm added a combination of aerodynamic, mechanical and weight reducing...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
GM's just revealed a whole messload of details on their newest members of the GMT-900-based full-size SUV and truck lineup — the 2009 Chevy Silverado XFE, 2009 Chevy Tahoe XFE, 2009 GMC Sierra XFE and lastly, the 2009 GMC Yukon XFE. What's XFE? It stands for Xtra Fuel Economy and the four relative fuel-sippers join the already class-leading Chevy Cobalt XFE as vehicles GMs achieved added wallet-padding...
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Motor Authority (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Following from last week’s rushed announcement for an extension of the existing employee discount program to friends and extended family of employees, General Motors has released a new memo to its dealers stating that it plans to offer a $4,000 bonus cash on the purchase of the 2008 GMC Yukon and Yukon XL, including the [...]
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Auto Channel (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Most car-based hybrids (Prius, Accord and the like) get significantly better mileage in congested city driving than on the open road. I see that the Yukon is rated at 21-pg in the city and 22 on the highway. We’ll see how that shakes out in the next couple of days. My son-in-law, Mike, commutes from Andersonville (near the big lake) to his office near O’hare Airport – usually at least 45 minutes -...
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SOX & Dawgs (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The Red Sox All-Star contingent poses before the game - Reuters You’ll have to excuse the tardiness of this post this morning, it seems there was a baseball game last night that went until 1:37 AM and after J.D. Drew was presented with his All-Star Game MVP trophy and the keys to his new GMC Yukon. [...]
