General Motors (GM) and OnStar today launched Stolen Vehicle Slowdown on more than 1 million model year 2009 GM vehicles in the U.S. and Canada.

OnStar reminds its subscribers in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama that a simple push of the OnStar button in GM vehicles will put them in contact with specially-trained Crisis Advisors. On August 31, 2008, OnStar saw a 30 percent increase over typical call volume.

At the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year, U.S. automaker General Motors introduced the Chevrolet Volt concept car, its long-awaited, "extended range electric" vehicle. GM would like to sell the car to consumers soon. But there is one hitch. The technology that makes it work doesn't exist yet.

As if investors needed another reason to weep on this unhappy expiration Friday, S&P decided it was as good a time as any to contemplate downgrading the US auto sector.

General Motors vehicles set the fastest lap in seven different classes on Monday during the first of four days of qualifying to determine the starting order for the 2007 Sports Car Club of America SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Heartland Park Topeka this weekend.

When the 44th Annual Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Club Racing National Championship Runoffs Presented by AT&T kick-off today at the 2.5-mile Heartland Park Topeka circuit, GM-powered vehicles will attempt to make it 52 straight years of winning at least one SCCA National Championship.

If the 11,317 owners of General Motors E85 ethanol-capable vehicles in the Miami area refueled solely with E85 ethanol, an estimated 161,671 barrels of oil could be saved annually. And hundreds of thousands of additional barrels of oil could be saved if all owners of flex-fuel vehicles refueled with E85 ethanol.

A version of the all-new Holden Commodore will go on sale in Brazil, as GM Holden begins exporting the new large sedan to one of its longest-standing customers.

Buick has been recognized for building the most dependable vehicles in the automotive industry, according to an annual J.D. Power and Associates study released today.

GM Certified Used Vehicles, the industry's top-selling manufacturer-certified used vehicle brand*, announced today a new nationwide rate incentive program on select GM vehicles, including the Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G6