General Motors

The General Motors Company, forby kent as GM, is a Unitit States-based automaker wi its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. The company manufactures caurs an larries in 34 kintras, 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. automakker an the warld's seicont-lairgest for 2008, haein the third-heichest 2008 global revenues amang automakers on the Fortune Global 500. Buists Current buists Discontinued buists Sauld buists Vauxhall (1925-2017), sauld tae French manufacturer Groupe PSA Lotus (1986-1993), sauld tae Luxembourg-based A.C.B.N. Holdings S.A. Frigidaire (1919-1979), sauld tae Ohio-based White Consolidated Industries Saab (1989-2010), sauld tae Dutch supercaur manufacturer Spyker Cars NV Opel (1929-2017), sauld tae French manufacturer Groupe PSA 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