There is alot to talk about amongest dealers in Little Rock, Arkansas this week. Many dealers have ventured down to Little Rock for the annual Car Wars sale amongest the dealers. Alot of the vehicles this year at the sale are going to be taking into consideration the high gas prices right now.

Many dealers at the sale are charging outrageous prices for the economy cars, like the smaller sedans, and two-passenger vehicles. Many dealers are wanting to sell these vehicles at over MSRP prices. Yet the trucks they have they cant wait to get rid of.

If this continues on the road we are heading larger vehicles like SUV’s, and trucks are not even going to be able to be given away to consumers. The gas prices are just to high nowadays for the customers to want them. So why would the dealers want to buy the trucks, SUV’s at such low prices when they will just be sitting on their lots?

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Frank Oresnik’s trusty pickup truck passed the 1 million-mile mark with a camera crew filming the event, and a public-radio audience listening in. Oresnik lives in Catawba in Price County, he passed the million-mile mark Friday in southeastern Wisconsin while on his way back home.

This is a great accomplishment for the silverado line, as the commercials say “Like a Rock”. Well this sure puts those words into stone. Oresnik plans to aution off his prize vehicle on ebay to itchy car collecters around the world waiting for this one to come on the floor.

He was on County Highway V southeast of Fond du Lac. On hand was a film crew from Chevrolet’s public relations and advertising company, and he was speaking live to Robert Siegel, host of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”

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The new electric car from Chevrolet is on the way, we think. While we wanted to call it their newest hybrid, the company has consistantly expressed their desire for it to be called an electric with “range extender” – considering they only use gasoline to recharge the batteries. Ok, enough with the history lesson…

GM has been working hard on this new model to get it out in the public eye as soon as possible. Tony Posawatz, vehicle line director at GM, had a few things to say about this interesting new breed at the Detroit Auto Show. “I would like to say this is a electric vehicle, the Chevrolet Volt is powered completely by GM’s Eflex electric propulsion system, so it is a electric vehicle that only requires an engine generator to turn on to create more electricity”.

Tony also said that the car would be able to run up to 40 miles on a full nights charge which is about six hours. After that the car would only need a small amount of gas to create more electricity through the engine generator in which the vehicle could travel another 640 miles. If all goes well, it’d be a great way to  go Green.

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When the Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06 went into production in the latter half of 2005, critics everywhere gawked at the unbelievably fast lap times it posted around Germany’s world known track, the Nurburgring. Beating cars more than 5 times it’s own price tag, the C6 Z06 lapped the Nurburgring in just 7:42.99. With a retail price of $70,000, it’s no secret that this car was the best money could buy.

All of that is in the past though, and Chevrolet is ready for a new challenge. If you thought Chevy was going to cease production of it’s fast, sporty models of their line to focus more towards fuel economy like most manufacturers, you were wrong. Coming out in 2009 is the all-new Corvette ZR1, and we all know better than to have low expectations for this car.

Just this past Saturday, while driving the Corvette ZR1, in completely stock form, including the tires, Jim Mero, GM’s development engineer, achieved an outstanding lap time of 7:26.4 on the Nurburgring. It looks like the new Nissan GT-R may not be as much of a threat to the ZR1 as people originally thought it would be.

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General Motors has announced that it will build a hydrogen fueling station in Los Angeles in conjunction with Clean Energy Corp. The goal for this project is to promote the benefits of the clean-burning fuel, as well as G.M.’s progress in the field of alternative fuels. The two companies are also open to building the new hydrogen infrastructure in that hopes that it will build acceptance among consumers, and prove that hydrogen could one day be a successful alternative to fossil fuels.

Clean Energy is the leader in providing natural gas as fuel for transportation in North America and is lending its expertise at the storage and delivery of the fuel.

The hydrogen station will be used by drivers participating in Chevrolet’s Project Driveway, the world’s largest test of fuel cell vehicles, as well as the hydrogen fuel cell limo service being run by GM and Virgin Atlantic for its international travelers.

The project Driveway included more than 100 Chevy Equinox fuel cell vehicles leased to customers around the world, the first being delivered in L.A., New York City, and Washington D.C.

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