Chevrolet Malibu News

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It would be all too easy to think of Holden's new Malibu as the unloved middle child.

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As General Motors prepares to launch a refreshed 2014 Chevrolet Malibu in the US, the current, year-old version of the car will go on sale in Australia as the Holden Malibu .

Cost-cutting efforts and fresh new vehicles should help General Motors Co. boost its North American pretax profit margin to 10 percent by the middle of this decade, company officials said Wednesday.

For the 2013 model year, Chevrolet has rolled out a new version of its Malibu midsize sedan , which it says improves on the last version of the car.

Senior Vice President Mary Barra told a group of financial analysts on Wednesday that GM is saving money by using the same parts on many vehicles.

Decades ago, Detroit's automakers changed their offerings' sheet metal, or at least substantial parts of it, every model year.

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General Motors and its joint ventures sold a May record 252,942 vehicles in China.

General Motors Co. is boosting incentives on its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt to help reduce inventory that has swelled to more than 4.5 months, and as it prepares to start production on the 2014 model.

"As far as we have come, we've got many, many miles to go to achieve the heights and goals we set out for ourselves," said Dan Akerson, General Motors CEO.

A new process used to update the Chevrolet Malibu for the 2014 model sounds more like the plot of a sci-fi movie than anything tied to designing cars .

June 6, 2013: General Motors and its joint ventures sold a May record 252,942 vehicles in China.

Chevrolet has long used SS badging to highlight its most enticing performance cars.

Projected specifications on the 2014 Ford Fusion with the 1.5-liter Ecoboost engine have been revealed, along with other 2014-model-year changes for the popular midsize sedan.

General Motors Co.' s Chevrolet division is keeping fingers crossed that plastic surgery on its midsize Malibu sedan - plus some tinkering with its engine - will be sufficient to boost sales and pricing until an all-new model appears two or three years hence.

Ford's May sales rose 14 percent, Chrysler's increased 11 percent and General Motors edged up 3 percent from a year earlier as a strong performance by Cadillac offset weakness at Chevrolet and Buick.