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General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Daewoo, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Oldsmobile, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab, and VauxhallVauxhall Motors is the UK subsidiary of General Motors. Although originally the most significant part of the GM European operations, Vauxhall has had many ups and downs, with low periods in the mid- 1970s and the late 1990s. Origins of the name and the lo.
Chevrolet and GMC divisions produce truckFor further uses of the word truck see Truck (disambiguation). A truck is a motor vehicle for transporting goods. Unlike automobiles, which usually have a unibody construction, most trucks (with the exception of the car-like minivan) are built around a sts, as well as passenger vehicles, while Oldsmobile is being phased out during 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co. Other brands include ACDelco, Allison Transmission, and General Motors Electro-Motive DivisionGeneral Motors' Electro-Motive Division (normally shortened to GM EMD or just EMD is the world's largest builder of railroad locomotives. General Electric is (narrowly) No. 2, and between them they have built the overwhelming majority of the locomotives i that produces diesel-electric locomotives. GM also has stakes in IsuzuIsuzu Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha Isuzu Motors Ltd. is a Japanese automobile company, headquartered in Tokyo. It has constructions plants in Kawasaki, Fujisawa, Tochigi and Hokkaido. It is famous for producing commercial vehicles and diesel engines. Isuzu pr, SubaruSubaru (In katakana: ), a Japanese car company, is a subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries. General Motors is a 20% minority shareholder. Subaru" is the Japanese word for the star cluster Pleiades that is depicted in the company logo. In New Zealand, it is, and Suzuki in Japan, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, and Lancia in Italy and also has a joint venture with Auto Vaz (Lada) in Russia. In December 2003, it acquired Delta in South Africa, in which it had taken a 45 per cent stake in 1997, and which is now a fully-owned subsidiary, General Motors South Africa.
GM's headquarters are in Detroit, Michigan.
General Motors is the world's largest vehicle manufacturer and employs over 340,000 people. In 2001 GM through all its branches sold 8.5 million vehicles. In 2002 GM sold 15% of all cars and trucks in the world. They also own Electronic Data Systems, and prior to selling it to News Corporation, DirecTV. GM owned Frigidaire from 1918 to 1979.
The current Chairman (since May 1, 2003) and Chief Executive Officer (since June 1, 2000) is Rick Wagoner , succeeding John F. Smith, Jr.
