SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- An estimated 1,033,257 new cars will be sold in October, for a projected Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) of 13.4 million units, forecasts Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information. This sales pace would mark the highest monthly SAAR since August 2009, when sales were inflated by the Cash for Clunkers program.

Edmunds.com analysts attribute October's sales results to the release of pent-up demand that has been building for more than a year. As a result, the auto industry may be in the midst of a small sales bubble.

GM recently announced the development of a vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications system which may change the way we drive. The system would allow vehicles to share information on their relative location and road conditions. For instance a car traveling ahead of another car may detect a pot hole in the road or some other obstacle and this information would be available to other vehicles.

GM sales show that sales are up for their crossover vehicles, 46% for the Equinox and 59% for the Terrain.

Chevrolet will begin an advertising campaign for the Sonic starting October 15th. The campaign will be targeting young buyers. As part of the "Let's Do This" campaign, the sonic will bungee jump from a 10 story structure and skydive in Arizona.

DETROIT (Reuters) -- U.S. new-car sales showed improvement in the first half of September as the recovering inventory of cars helped bring buyers back into the market, research firm J.D. Power and Associates said today.

The sales rate for September on an annual basis looks set to reach 12.9 million vehicles, compared with the 12.1 million rate in August, according to J.D. Power, which collects data from 8,900 U.S. dealers. The sales rate in September 2010 was 11.7 million vehicles.

According to a autoblog.com article, February 2011 was the best month of sales for US automakers since the end of the Cash for Clunkers program in August 2009. The high sellers for the month included Saab, Ram and Buick. Sales of the Ford Fusion were above average, most likely due to incentive deals.

Consumer Reports’ annual ranking of the best automakers for 2011 once again found Honda and Subaru at the top of the list, based on judgments about reliability and resale value, among other qualities.

Toyota, despite questions about its quali...ty that were raised in the last few years, was ranked number three.

Mary Barra has been promote as the new head of product development at General Motors. She is the first woman to hold that key position at a major automaker.

Barra has an engineering background. She served as vice president of GM's global manufacturing engineering, was a plant manager and worked in internal communications at the company. Her previous position at GM was vice president of human resources.

Barra worked on the engineering of GM's popular and successful crossover vehicles, the Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia, during her time in engineering.

DETROIT (AP) -- A surge in car and truck buying that began in October is expected to lift last year's U.S. auto sales above a dismal 2009.

Customers gained confidence in the economy, loans were easier to get and deals got sweeter.

Ford, Gener...al Motors, Toyota and other car companies will report 2010 and December sales throughout the day on Tuesday.