General Motors

The General Motors Company, an aa kent as GM, is a Unitit States-based automaker wi its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. The company manufactures caurs an trucks in 34 countries, recently employed 244,500 fowk aroond the warld, an sells an services vehicles in some 140 kintras. Bi sales, GM rankt as the lairgest U.S. automaker an the warld's seicont-lairgest for 2008, having the third-highest 2008 global revenues among automakers on the Fortune Global 500.

Brands

Current brands

Marque	Years used	Markets
Buick	since 1908	North America, China, Israel, Taiwan
Cadillac	since 1909	Global (except Sooth Americae, Indie, SE Asie, Australie)
GMC	since 1912	North Americae, Middle East
Chevrolet	since 1917	Global (except Australie, New Zealand, Sooth Korea, Vietnam)
Vauxhall	since 1925	Unitit Kinrick
Opel	since 1929	Europe (except UK), Africe, Asie, Oceanie, Sooth Americae
Holden	since 1948	Australie, New Zealand
Daewoo	since 2002	Sooth Korea, Vietnam

Discontinued brands

Welch (1903–1911) Rainier (1905–1911) Welch-Marquette (see Marquette) Cartercar (1905–1915) Elmore (1909–1912) Rapid Truck (1909–1912) Reliance Truck (1909–1912) Welch-Detroit (1910–1911) Marquette (1912) Peninsular (1912) (see Marquette) Samson Tractor (1917–1922) Scripps-Booth (1917–1923) Marquette (1930) Oakland (1909–1931) Viking (1929–1931) LaSalle (1927–1940)

McLaughlin (1918–1942) Yellow Coach (1925–1943) Beaumont (1966–1969) Envoy (1960–1970) Acadian (1962–1971) Ranger (1968–1976) Bedford Vehicles (1929–1987) General Motors Diesel Division (1938–1987) Passport (1988–1991) Asüna (1993-1995) Geo (1989–1997) Oldsmobile (1897–2004) Pontiac (1926–2010) Saturn (1985–2010) Hummer (1998–2010)

Sauld brands

• Frigidaire (1919–1979), sauld tae Ohio-based White Consolidated Industries
• Lotus (1986–1993), sauld tae Luxembourg-based A.C.B.N. Holdings S.A.
• Saab (1989–2010), sauld tae Dutch supercaur manufacturer Spyker Cars NV

Umwhile affiliates

• Fiat (2000–2005), GM awned 20 percent at ane time wi put option
• Fuji Heavy Industries, manufacturer o Subaru (1999–2006), GM awned 20 percent at ane time
• Isuzu (1971–2006), GM awned 49 percent at ane time
• Suzuki (1981–2008), GM awned ower 20 percent at ane time

Spin-affs

• GM Defense 1950–2003 wis ance pairt o General Motors Diesel Division an as General Dynamics Land Systems division o General Dynamics
• Electro Motive Division of General Motors wis awso ance pairt o General Motors Diesel Division an nou kent as Electro-Motive Diesel
• Detroit Diesel sauld tae Penske Corporation; braken up an portion sauld to the umshile Daimler-Chrysler AG (nou Daimler AG); nou pairt o Daimler AG
• Transit division wis sauld tae Motor Coach Industries and Transportation Manufacturing Corporation
  • RTS an Classic bus richts owned bi MCI And TMC wur sauld aff tae Nova Bus; nou produced bi Millennium Transit Services
• Diesel Division of General Motors of Canada Limited spun aff an later acquired bi General Motors Canada as Diesel Division o General Motors of Canada Limited
• EDS – Electronic Data Systems
• Hughes Electronics (Nou The DirecTV Group)
• 1999 GM spun aff its pairts makin operations as Delphi

References

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