Filed under: GM , Earnings/Financials General Motors posted its last financial report before the company’s initial public offering of stock next week. In it, the company reported that in the third quarter of 2010, it earned a net income of $1.96 billion on a total of $34.06 billion in revenue. That puts the automaker’s 2010 figures at $4.16 billion of net income on $98.17 billion in revenue, though GM does say that it expects earnings to fall in the fourth quarter thanks to costs associated with developing new vehicles and launching products like the Chevrolet Volt and Cruze .

Filed under: Buick , Cadillac , Chevrolet , GM , GMC Two years ago General Motors had 6,049 dealers spread across the United States. Post-bankruptcy, that number is down to 4,500 retail outlets. The dealer cutback was supposed to help GM’s bottom line while simultaneously bolstering sales and profits at the remaining dealerships, but has it worked?

SEMA 2010: Chevrolet shows off Z-Spec treatment for Volt, Cruze, Spark All official, all theoretical. Stratasys prints out Urbee plug-in hybrid concept with cool 3D tech Unusual doesn’t begin to cover it

Filed under: SEMA Show Well, look at that… Day Two has finally come to a close, and this is but a small sampling of what we brought you over the last couple of days from the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. We’ll have a little bit more coming your way tomorrow morning as we wrap up the final day of the festivities.

Filed under: By the Numbers Grand Cherokee lifts Jeep, Toyota falls hard After a couple days of delay, sales numbers for the month of October are finally in, and most automotive brands earned a treat instead of a trick. The majority of brands for sale in the U.S. achieved an increase in sales versus the same month last year, and of those, the majority posted a double-digit gain in sales

Filed under: SEMA Show Day One has officially come and gone, and we’ve done our best to provide you, dear reader, with an interesting selection of the kinds of vehicular machinery that can only be seen at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Below you’ll see a sample of the wares we pointed our digital SLR lenses at. Enjoy, and just wait and see what we’ve got in store for you all through the night and into tomorrow! Chevrolet Corvette Z06X Chevrolet Camaro SSX Neiman Marcus Camaro Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Savini Wheels booth Airhead Kustoms Ford F-350 Ford Taurus Interceptor Stealth 2011 Honda CR-Z Mugen Toyota Prius Plus 2011 Ford Fiestas Oakley Designs Ferrari 458 Bio-Hybrid Tracked Hummer 2011 Honda CR-Z Hybrid R Toyota Swagger Wagon Supreme Chevrolet Corvette Jake Edition We Obsessively Covered Day One of the..

Filed under: SEMA Show , SUV , Hummer , Off-Road Zero South Biodiesel Electric Hummer – Click above for high-res image gallery Zero South, a company that popped up at SEMA in 2008 , is back again with its Biodiesel Electric Hummer.

Filed under: Ford , Mazda , Earnings/Financials 2011 Mazda BT-50 – Click above for high-res image gallery Any casual observer of the automotive industry today could tell you that American automakers have been shedding entangled divisions like a dog in the springtime. While Chrysler teamed up with Fiat , General Motors got rid of Hummer , Saab , Saturn and Pontiac , and over the past few years, Ford has all but entirely eliminated its overseas properties, selling Jaguar , Land Rover , Aston Martin and Volvo to the highest bidders.

Chevy Volt digs deeper into battery pack; uses “a little bit more” than 8 kWh Again, it’s a performance thing.

Filed under: SUV , Truck , India , Off-Road Mahindra Bolero – Click above for image gallery It’s been 10 years since Mahindra & Mahindra reworked its Armada SUV into a more civil machine. The company renamed its off-road machine the Bolero at that time, and since then, the beast has found favor with the police, military and regular citizens who need a little off-road prowess in their daily commute. To celebrate the nameplate’s 10-year anniversary, Mahindra has rolled out a new 2011 version of the truck, complete with one very interesting exterior design