The Auto Writer

It is Friday so I’m going to kick back and share the link love with you and point out other articles of interest online today. A real potpourri of news and information for your review:

• General Motors is seeing SUV sales tank (as is Toyota, Ford, Chrysler….) but one bright shining light is the Chevy Tahoe which gets better gas mileage than a Toyota Camry (and a V6 Chevy Malibu for that matter). The Detroit News has a good write up about this 8-passenger beast.

• Get a VW Routan and your kid will get money for college. Love these incentives to move unpopular models! Seriously, does VW think that this will be enough incentive for me to buy one? Not a chance! Left Lane News shares their thoughts too.

• I was just going to share with the world pictures of the Volvo V70 wagon were now available, but Autoblog beat me to it. Honestly, I only gave it some thought and decided that if you really wanted to find out more about this new-fangled wagon you’d forgive me if I didn’t share those photographs with you.

• Sniff sniff! It looks like the El Camino name won’t be given to Pontiac’s sport truck when it returns next year. Jalopnik was pushing the EC name when they learned that GM was allowing people to vote on it (I picked the name too) but GM says that the EC name is a no-no for Pontiac. Well, darn.

• Speaking about Pontiac, Peter M. DiLorenzo posts his usual diatribe about General Motors and concludes that the G8 isn’t going to be around long enough to enjoy its limelight. Neither will Pontiac if his rant is correct.

I’ll be back next week with some fresh stuff. I’ve been staying away from as much negative news as possible — everyone knows that gas prices are sky high, but there isn’t much that you can do about that. In the meantime, enjoy your weekend and catch an Indy, Formula 1, or NASCAR race if you can.