The Corvette Racing team is on its way to France for the June 17 start of the world-famous 24 Hours of LeMans endurance race. Corvette has been the winner four out of the last five years. GM North America Vice President of Sales, Service, and Marketing Brent Dewar talked recently about the significance of a win at LeMans and why GM is into racing at all.
Corvette Racing Program Manager Doug Fehan speaks from France about preparations for this year’s June 17-18 LeMans 24-hour endurance race. A former race driver himself, Fehan is optimistic that the Corvette team can come away with another win, extending the record to five 1-2 finishes in the most recent six years at LeMans.
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GM Road Racing Group Manager Steve Wesoloski tells FastLane Radio that Corvette is sending two champion race-tested C6.Rs to France for the 24-hours of LeMans on June 17, 2006. The Corvette C6.R is the most technically advanced sports car ever developed by GM. This year’s cars finished numbers 1 and 2 in the most recent American LeMans series race. Competition is tough, but hopes are high that Corvette will continue its winning record at LeMans this year. Wesoloski speaks from experience because he’s a key member of the pit crew in addition to his engineering and administrative duties.
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GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz discusses the design of the 2007 Saturn Sky Red Line in a walk-around at the New York International Auto Show.
In the first video, Jan-√Öke Jonsson, managing director of Saab Auto, presents the Saab Aero X. In the second, Kurt Beyer discusses the Opel GT, of which he was chief designer.
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FastLane Radio host Bill Betts, the GM Communications web services manager, interviews Chet Huber, president of OnStar, about OnStar’s new Turn-by-Turn Navigation service. It works like this: when a subscriber asks an OnStar advisor for directions, the advisor sends directions to the vehicle. The automated service verbally directs the motorist to the destination turn by turn. Huber also discusses how OnStar creates new services for each generation of hardware. OnStar’s Turn-by-Turn Navigation will debut on the 2006 Buick Lucerne and Cadillac DTS in March and the Cadillac STS in the second quarter.
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In this FastLane video podcast, the Wall Street Journal’s Detroit Bureau Chief Joe White interviews GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz at the North American International Auto Show about the design of the Buick Enclave concept vehicle.
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In FastLane’s first video podcast, the Wall Street Journal’s Detroit
Bureau Chief Joe White interviews GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz at the North
American International Auto Show about the design and heritage of the
Camaro concept vehicle.
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In this podcast, FastLane radio host Deb Ochs interviews Eddie Alterman, editor in chief of MPH magazine about voting the Corvette Z06 as the top spin of the year. Alterman talks about how fast and responsive the car is, and he says it’s the best car the domestic auto industry has ever produced.
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A crowd of celebrities saw the 2007 Cadillac Escalade for the first time yesterday, at a Rodeo Drive party in Beverly Hills, California. In this podcast, Cadillac General Manager Jim Taylor talks about the more powerful but more fuel-efficient Escalade, its new interior features and sound system, and the party. The Escalade will also be shown at the Miami Auto Show today.
