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CarSpace Jupiter ChevroletWe are a family owned business at Jupiter Chevrolet. The customer comes first and we implement that attitude throughout your entire new vehicle and pre-owned vehicle ownership. Oct 9, 2008 - Malcolm With His Pants Down.....InterestingOur esteemed Service Manager, Malcom Simons is in the photo below with his pants down to his ankles. Why would he be photographed like this knowing that we would put him on the blog? Good question. I don't think he thought that far ahead. Malcolm raced all season at Redline Raceway this summer, and made it to the bracket finals at Pine Valley Raceway, where this illustrious photo was captured. He made it through the eliminations at Pine Valley to the semifinals.
Malcolm not only raced the Jupiter Chevy Camaro, but he had a foot race as well. At Pine Valley, along with Drag Racing, they also paticipated in "Olympic Activities." One of which is a foot race with your pants down to your ankles. Malcolm may be a fantastic drag racer, but he couldn't hold a candle to the lady to his left. She won the race. Malcolm, on top of it all, you have a photo on the Internet in your nice boxer briefs, but you also got beat by a girl. WAY TO GO!!-we still love you though. Keep up the good work!
Sep 3, 2008 - GM extends employee pricing offer, adds '09 models DETROIT, Sept 3 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp has extended its employee-level pricing discount program by one month through the end of September and increased the number of 2009 model year vehicles carrying the offer to boost sagging sales and clear out inventory. The program, launched in late August, applies to almost its entire line-up of 2008 model year vehicles and has been expanded to include most 2009 model year vehicles at dealerships, including all Silverado and Sierra pickups, GM spokesman John McDonald said on Wednesday. GM's better-selling cars, such as the Chevrolet Malibu, Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac Vibe are also included in the extended offer, the No.1 U.S. automaker said.
Aug 23, 2008 - Give this pickup truck the gold
Aug 12, 2008 - GM offering more fuel-efficient pickup trucks,SUVs
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12/2008, 12:04 a.m. EDT, By DEE-ANN DURBIN, The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. is releasing new, more fuel-efficient versions of its full-size pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles later this fall.
The XFE — or extra fuel economy — versions of the 2009 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks and Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon SUVs will get one mile per gallon more in both city and highway fuel economy than non-XFE versions. The boost will give them a total of 15 miles per gallon in the city and 21 on the highway.
On XFE models, GM improved the aerodynamics by extending the front lower air dam, lowering the suspension and revising the chassis tuning. The automaker also reduced the mass with aluminum parts, including an aluminum spare wheel and 17-inch aluminum wheels, gave the vehicles low rolling resistance tires and powered them with a 5.3-liter, ethanol-capable V-8 engine that has an aluminum cylinder block and heads. GM stressed that the vehicles still have the same towing capability.
The XFE pickups and SUVs will be available in the fourth quarter of this year. GM spokesman Brian Goebel wouldn't say how much more they will cost than non-XFE versions. GM began offering an XFE version of its Chevrolet Cobalt small car earlier this year. The automaker said it sped development of the XFE trucks and SUVs because of consumer demand for more fuel-efficient vehicles. GM's truck and SUV sales fell 23 percent in the first seven months of this year.
GM also offers hybrid versions of the Tahoe and Yukon and plans to bring out hybrid versions of the Silverado and Sierra in the first half of 2009. The company said last week that about 4 percent of its Tahoe and Yukon sales have been hybrids so far this year.
Aug 7, 2008 - Coming Soon....2009 Chevrolet Traverse
What is it? 2009 Chevrolet Traverse What’s special about it? Let’s break it down. There’s a new full-size, unibody SUV platform in the house of the General, called the Lambda. GMC got a version, called the Acadia. Saturn called the one it got the Outlook. And Buick has received raves for its swoopy blue-eyed version, the Enclave. That Chevy didn’t have a version of this vehicle from the very start is the only surprising thing about it. But Chevy gets to be the division to announce that the 3.6-liter V6 in the line of GM three-row crossovers will get a direct injection system for 2009. The DI pushes horsepower up to a maximum 286. This compares to the maximum 275 hp that the current Buick, GMC and Saturn versions make. The peak output drops by 5 horsepower to 281 hp for lower-level Traverses equipped with a single exhaust as opposed to dual exhaust. The DI system also brings with it a small bump in torque — 4 pound-feet in dual-exhaust vehicles. Nobody at GM wants to confirm that the DI engine will be standard across all Lambda-platform vehicles, but if this doesn’t happen for model-year 2009 we’d be shocked. Other than styling, the Traverse is essentially identical to its siblings. That’s not a bad thing considering how well-received they’ve all been. Interior dimensions are, predictably, nearly identical to the other Lambdas. And available equipment appears to be consistent across the board. We’d expect the Chevy to come with fewer standard features than, say, the Buick, given that it will probably be the least expensive of the lot. How much less expensive will the Chevy be? Well, GM isn’t talking, but since the Acadia starts at $30,470 and the Outlook goes for $28,995, we’d estimate a two-wheel-drive Traverse LS would start right at $28,000. And yes, this does spell the end of the body-on-frame and long-in-the-tooth TrailBlazer, which carries a base price of $28,150. Production of the 2009 Chevrolet Traverse begins this fall at GM’s plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. What’s Edmunds’ take? In the likely event that a Chevy dealer is closer to your house than a GMC or Saturn dealer, the Traverse would be the Lambda to get.
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