A rare peek inside GM's Heritage Center with Manager Greg Wallace as our tour guide. In this piece Greg provides an overview of the Heritage Center's mission, and tells us about the unique Corvette in the lobby...it was designed by the women on Harley Earl's staff, whom he referred to as the "damsels of design."
GM invited us to shoot some video at the North American International Auto Show, held this week in Detroit. They gave us access to various GM pooh-bahs and introduced us to other invited bloggers, it's all a part of their GMnext 2008 program which celebrates the 100th year anniversary of GM.
Announcements were made regarding new introductions and concept cars (of course), but the big news was E85 ethanol and GM's investment in Coskata, a company that seems to have found a way to make E85 out of a renewable resource: trash. Click play to view our vids, enjoy!
Rick Wagoner announced an important venture with Coskata, a biofuel company that seems to have figured out how to make E85 ethanol out of trash, among other things. Here's the take from treehugger and USA today, above find video commentary we gathered at the Detroit autoshow on E85 and the announcement.
Commenters include Scott Atherton, President and CEO, American LeMans Series, Kjell ac Bergström, President & CEO of Saab Automobile AB Powertrain, and blogger Clayton Cornell of gas2.org.
Tom Wallace, Corvette Vehicle Line Executive, General Motors, is also known as Mr. Corvette. Here's the peek he gave us of this American supercar.
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