With the U.S. faced with a debt burden, still exposed to the threat of a recession and oil prices on the rise, the automotive market isn’t exactly thriving. But despite the direct correlation gas prices have on the automotive industry, one automaker is seeing an increase in sales compared to this time last year.

Kansas City used Car dealers sold more cars in the month of June 2011 than they did in June of last year. In a seemingly perpetual descent, GM’s 10.5% improvement in sales gives the automotive industry a glimmer of hope in the road to recovery. Chevy alone experienced a 10.9% improvement in growth with the following five particular models leading the Chevy family.

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You might be thinking that you’ve just got in tune with all the fantastic 2011 models and automakers are already starting to get in gear for 2012?  Yes, it’s that’s time, Chevrolet is already getting its loyal fans excited for the next round of new models.  One car we’d like to tell you a little bit more about is the 2012 Camaro! Continue Reading…

Brand perception and reputation is a big deal for an automaker.  To gain new and keep current customers, dealerships need the brand they’re representing to remain one of the best in the business.  Lucky for Chevrolet, results that were compiled in a recent study showed that Chevy models are thought of highly by drivers all over. Continue Reading…

You may be lucky enough to own one, but for most of us they’re just eye candy: collectors cars.  Models from years before are often restored, some still in mint condition.  It’s easy to forget that today’s models will one day be collectors editions to future car aficionados.  One model here in stock at McCarthy Chevrolet, the 2011 Camaro SS, may be a car that will retain its value long enough to someday be considered a collector’s model.  If you own one, or have even been behind the wheel of one of these, you’ll understand that this is probably true. 

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With false starts in the Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid and a Buick plug-in crossover vehicle—the former doomed when GM scrapped the Saturn brand and the latter put on the shelf after negative customer feedback—GM is once again making plans for a plug-in hybrid in 2011, according to Bob Lutz, GM’s vice-chairman.  He said it will come from one of GM’s four core brands: Chevy, GMC, Cadillac, or Buick.  The new vehicle, representing GM’s renewed commitment to efficiency, fuel and otherwise, will employ technology used in the scrapped Saturn and Buick models. Continue Reading…