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. >>> you better hope you're not speeding if you come across this corvette in north carolina.the $80,000 sports car is now patrolling the streets of wake county. it was picked up during a drug seizure, and is now being used by the police department. the corvette can go from zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds, and reach speeds close to 200 miles an hour. >>> well, you may not have an $80,000 patrol car, but that doesn't mean you can't help kick crime in your neighborhood. stick around for tonight's crime checker. abc 2 news at 5:30 starts in just two minutes. ♪ (announcer) worst-case scenario. so i'm thinking we need a better way to save money. better than subleasing office space? ideally. (announcer) best case solution. switch to verizon high speed internet and phone for business-- with a dedicated high-speed connection from our office to yours, so you won't be slowed down because your neighbors are online. as low as $79.99 a month for 12 months with a 3 year agreement. plus, get over $180 back in available online rebates. call 1-888-845-8854. you'll also get unlimited nationwide calli

and then there are the corvettes. which have always been head-turners. these visitors from serbia and the ukraine took pictures and posing with the american classics that cost twice as much to buy in their countries. >> beautiful. very strong. >> reporter: if you had your choice to buy any car in the world, what would you buy? >> corvette. >> reporter: joe scott drives a cavalier convertible that he has had since the year 2000. he says that he's always own ad general motors car. >> my next one will be -- it will probably be a khmer and so definitely be a gm. i have no qualms about buying from them. >> reporter: this man runs a limousine service. he's thinking of trading his lincoln navigator for a chevy suburban? which would make all four of the cars in his limo fleet gm products. >> i don't have any problem buying even though -- so long as places we can sell them, shouldn't be a problem. >> reporter: as long there is enough service. >> reporter: the availability of service, that brings us back to those gm dealers losing their franchise. they argue that

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this $80,000 corvette does zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds. up to 200 miles an hour.got it from a drug seizure. they say it has already helped with a few drug busts. >> well, interesting day weather wise. we have another one in store for tomorrow. here is vytas with the seven day. >> you know, jennifer, i think we need a weather mobile. go track down the storms. here is what's going on. 83 tomorrow. thunderstorms looking at winds out of the east at five to 10. maybe a few of those in the afternoon can get strong. so watch the sky for you. and looking at the storms pushing through. making way for mostly cloudy to partly cloudy friday. 20 percent chance for showers. 86 the high. 89 saturday. plenty of sunshine. warm day. but it should be a fabulous weekend. only 40 percent chance for showers on sunday. temperatures back in the mid to upper 80s as we round out through the middle of next week, with off-and-on showers. so things warm up and get muggy again by the middle of next week. jennifer back to you. >> that's all for the "late edition". thanks for joi

. >> reporter: studio x is where the da vincis of detroit came up with classics like the corvette and this room was shutter eed during gm's decline. but the artists are back, searching for rir resistible shapes. do you think the industry as a whole got away from that for awhile? >> i think so. i think we did. >> reporter: the new camaro came out of studio x and has been drawing raves. and the chevy malibu was the car of the year. but according to consumer reports, they must work on long-term reliability. >> a lot of gm troubles have problems with their transmissions, withlectrical futures, and parts of the trim dropping off. >> reporter: gm says fewer plants make it easier to focus on quality control. and there is the chevy volt. a plug-in hybrid that goes 40 miles without gas, but cost around $40,000. >> it is not what is going to save general motors. it is a further out technology. >> let's be completely honest. no company wants to go through this. >> reporter: but whatever they build, there is a tarnished image to polish, and reviews for their new ad campaign have been mixed. >> no

not quite "little red corvette" we're about to show you.utomakers are busy created electric cars hoping they're the wave of the future. >> some electric cars are already on the market, though they might not be the answer to all of your driving needs. our josh levs takes one for a spin. >> we've got the anvil here today. tell us what we're looking at. >> it's an lsd, which means a low-speed vehicle. it is certainly a lot more creative than what you're accustomed to seeing, wide track technology, big automotive wheels. >> that means it it's a wide car, which gives you more features inside. >> where are the electric gears? underneath it? all packed into her? i didn't just break it by knocking on it, did i? >> no. it's durl. >> smart charger up front. drive traen in the back. >> what distinguishes this from a golf cart? >> the golf cart has maybe a 46-inch wheel path. this has 60 inches. we're not going to rub shoulders inside. we have heated seats, full automotive gauges, more intuitive movements. >> let's give it a shot. first you have this w

they absolutely want us to keep producing camaro is, corvettes, full-size pickup trucks, sport- utilitys, so forth. this is provided that we have to meet the future fuel economy regulations. as long as we have the technology that meet the fuel economy regulations, the u.s. government wants us to keep her fulfilling the needs of the american public because they realize this will be the only way that we will be successful. jennifer: there is a case being brought by stillwater mining, they say that your buying out a contract with them. they say that this will hurt them. they say they will lose a lot of jobs. how do you respond? >> i respond by telling you this is the first i have heard of it and i know absolutely nothing about it. jennifer: how many jobs will be lost in the restructuring? how many plans will be closed? >> we have said that there are additional plant closings. i am not going to start listing plans and say which ones are in what country or region. as fritz henderson reiterated, we will reduce our salaried employees by 35%. we hope to illuminate a lot of executive positions b

. >> reporter: with the row of vipirs and corvettes for sale, he's trying to appeal to what everyone wants, fast cars and big guns. >> we love race cars, pickup trucks and shotguns. it's nonsense about the way we need to change the way america built cars y.? general motors is the number one manufacturer in the world. >> reporter: he's troubled by giving away a foreign rifle. that changeed with one phone call. >> you know, a u.s.-made ak-47 would beat the heck out of a hungarian or -- what do you charge for those guns? >> i am telling you right no i would make a special deal for you. >> yeah? >> only because we would rather you sell an american-made one. >> i'm selling american-made cars, i would sell american- made gun. >> absolutely. >> reporter: last year at this time, the dealer gave away a free hand bungun with every sale. he said 80% of the customers took the voucher for the gun. >> that was fox's john -- [ indiscernible ] reporting. the dealer said more than 90% of the calls and e-mails coming in are from people who sent the rifle program. stick around, we'll talk about this ar

al shepard, the late al shepard, this was his corvette. there it is. one of those famous corvettes.ook at that thing. the boys used to tool around here in cocoa beach on. come on down, maybe they will let us take this thing for a spin. >> i was going to say, could life get any more exciting. i'm an astronaut, i have a hot convertible and i am cruising the beaches of florida. >> reporter: what a life they had. and they went to the moon, by wait. >> and, by the way, we made history. hey, john, stay with me for a minute, will you? in addition to all this cool stuff that's been going on today and the fact that you got to be a part of this really neat panel, we want to sort of try and relive the apollo 11 mission. we want you to do it with us. you know how you do it? the smithsonian air and space museum is twittering the mission as if it were happening now. i twoont check in with our executive producer kelly franken in our control room. we did this once before for passion of the christ during the holiday. kelly, who is our twitter queen, i guess you could say, she is always keep meeg abr

ddddddh >>> it's not quite a little red corvette.the emphasis on green energy these days, automakers are busy developing new lines of electric cars. some are already on the market. although not all of them will answer all of your driving needs. our josh levs took one out for a spin. >> reporter: we got the anvil here today. tell us what we're looking at. >> it's an lsc, which means a low speed vehicle. it is certainly a lot more creative than what you're accustomed to seeing. wide track technology. a little more addressive. bit automotive wheels. >> it means it's a brad car, wide car. >> gives you more features inside. >> where is the electric gear? underneath it? all packed here in a much smaller unit? >> some of it is. >> reporter: i didn't just break it? >> no. very durable. drive train in the back. >> reporter: what is the difference between this and a glorified golf cart? >> a golf dart has maybe a 46-inch wheel path. this has 60 inches p we're not going to rub shoulders inside. heated seats. full automotive gauges. more intuiti

. >> studio x is where the da vincis of detroit came one classics like the corvette and this room was shuddered during g.m.'s decline when accountants were calling the shots. but the artists are back, searching for distinctive, irresistible shapes. >> do you think the industry has a whole got away from that for a while? >> i think so. i think we did. >> the new camaro came out of studio x and has been drawing raves. and the chevy malibu was 2008 motor trend's car of the year. bu according to consume reports, they must work on long-term reliability. >> aloft g.m. products have problems with their transmissions, with electrical features, and also interior squeaks, rattles, parts of the trim dropping off. >> g.m. says fewer assemble plants make it easier to focus on quality control. and then there is the chevy bolt. a plug-in hybrid that will go 40 miles without gas, but it will cost around $40,000. >> it is not what's going to save general motors over the next two, three, five years t. is a further out technology. >> let's be completely honest. no company wants to go through this. >> bu

. ♪ >>> it doesn't go as fast as a corvette. >> i'll give you a hard time. me drive. you get one of those you don't have to ask again. i'll always drive. no problem driving. that is the car you own. we're talking about the electric car, automakers are busy developing these things these days hoping they may be the wave of the future. >> some electric cars are already on the market though they might not be the answer to all your driving needs like if you need speed. >> reporter: we have the anvil here today. what is this >> it's a low speed vehicle. certainly a lot more creative than what you're accustomed to seeing. >> reporter: let's break this one. it's a wide car. >> very wide which gives you more features inside. >> reporter: where are all the electric gears? all packed into here? >> some. >> reporter: i didn't break it by knocking on it. >> no. smart charger up front. battery back under the seat. >> reporter: what distinguishes this from a glorified golf cart >> this has up to 50 horsepower. a government cart has a 46 inch wheel path. this has 60 inches.

they hit a corvette and killed four israeli sailors. came out of nowhere. those same missiles are along the persian gulf. and iran has looked at, looked at the balance of power in the middle east and, had looked at iraq in particular. i was in baghdad in april, 2003, there were iranians wandering around looking nice little holes in the saddam hussein's tanks. trust me. iranians are smart. they can't beat the united states in conventional a war. they can't beat the united states in nuclear war of course either. but they can do it asymmetricly. they now have the deterrents israel lost. that is simply taking out four or five tankers in the middle east. coming out of the persian gulf, strait of hormuz. they could hit opcac with missiles. would the take as many days to take all the missiles out. meantime you drop a couple missiles into opcac. six million barrels off the market. hedge funds tell me, price of gas goes up to 10 to $12 a gallon. if that's, not that we can trust hedge funds these days but, the point is it's a deterrent any president that will hit ira

television you see multi-cultural at the people running down the street smiling and getting into the corvettethere is no problem because everyone is getting around, as opposed to the sour dr. collins who is bringing everybody down, with the discussion about racism and structural discrimination, that kind of thing. the disciplinary domain is one of we have to pay attention to. these would be the ways in which we had disciplined on a daily basis to go to our assigned places without realizing often that it has been done at all. i have a consciousness when i was in high school that this teacher was attempting to discipline my mind in a certain direction and i knew that i had choice in response to that. the are invisible to us, difficult to see because they are not named as race, not named as gender, they are pattern behavior, not busboys and poets. my family is very tired about this. when we go into a restaurant, i routinely am seated next to the bathroom or the kitchen. if that happened once, i would say bad luck. if it happened twice, i say bad luck again. when it happens a third time i say hmm

the corvette is beautiful, the escalade. lutz did a great job of making cadillac an important name. their silver ra doe truck is fantastic. the malibu won car of the year. it competes against cars out there that are like it. do you get the impression that they have the culture to lead them to success again like ford has been able to change its culture and way of thinking. >> right. alan maalley has been able to do that in ford. i was with fritz henderson. he loves the buick crossovers. he said i don't need 100%. give me 80% of what i need to know, i will make a decision and move forward. they are proving they are cutting back the top executives by 35%, ali. they are doing what the government is doing with regulatory bodies. they are doing what we are seeing across a lot of sectors. they are cutting away the fat and really focusing and they want to move fast. we will see if they can do it. >> poppy, great to talk to you. go to money.com and check out what poppy has done. poppy, stick around and watch this one. you have a grea