DETROIT --General Motors is dropping the innovative steer-by-wire steering system available on its full-sized pickups and SUVs at the end of the 2005 model year. Quadrasteer won't be offered on GM's ...

Quadrasteer, sometimes referred to as QS4 or Four Wheel Steer, is a General Motors chassis technology that steers all four wheels of a vehicle, thereby contributing to greater agility at low speeds.

DETROIT -- When a General Motors field representative asked John Noble to take some trucks with the Quadrasteer four-wheel steering system, he jumped at the chance. "They came to us and said, 'Nobody ...

Anyone who's wrestled an 18 1/2-ft long 3/4-ton Suburban into a tight parking space has lamented the lack of side thrusters or tugs to swing the bow or stern around. For 2003, Chevrolet has borrowed ...

General Motors has pulled the optional four-wheel steering system from the 2006 truck option list. Poor sales brought the end of the expensive system. Quadrasteer would turn the rear wheels in the ...

The first SUV with four-wheel-steering is a beast, but it sure can dance. If you care about fuel economy, this most definitely is not the vehicle for you. There is just no way around the fact that GMC ...

You know that Rolling Stones song, "You Can't Always Get What You Want"? It might be used in a spoof ad for American pickup trucks. And we're not only pointing a finger at GM , whose GMC Sierra 1500 ...

DETROIT -- General Motors is dropping the innovative steer-by-wire steering system available on its full-sized pickups and SUVs at the end of the 2005 model year. Quadrasteer won't be offered on GM's ...

To help increase sales of the Quadrasteer four-wheel-steering system that it offers in some of its pickups and larger SUVs for a couple of years, General Motors of Canada has lowered its price for ...

DETROIT -- General Motors is dropping the four-wheel steering system available on its full-sized pickups and SUVs at the end of the 2005 model year. The system won't be offered on GM's new generation ...

The system consists of four main components: a front-wheel position sensor, steerable solid hypoid rear axle, electric motor-driven actuator and control unit. Which brings us directly to the ...