Question: In what year did the company previously known as The Oakland Motor Car Group, sell 8.35 million vehicles?

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Oakland Motor Car Company: The Oakland Motor Car Company of Pontiac, Michigan, was an American automobile manufacturer and division of the General Motors Corporation.  Purchased by General Motors in 1909, the company continued to produce modestly priced automobiles until 1931 when it was renamed Pontiac.

Wonder Motor Car Company: The Wonder Motor Car Company was a very short lived car company in 1909 that was derived from the Kansas City Motor Car Company as a last ditch effort to stay in business and continue car production.  The Kansas City Motor Car Company which made cars and trucks from 1905 to 1909 was itself derived from the Caps Brothers Manufacturing Company that briefly made cars in 1905.  No examples of any Caps Brothers, Kansas City, or Wonder cars or trucks are known to exist today.

General Motors: General Motors Company, commonly known as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.  With global headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, United States, GM manufactures cars and trucks in 35 countries.  In 2008, 8.35 million GM cars and trucks were sold globally under various brands.  GM reached the milestone of selling 10 million vehicles in 2016.  Current auto brands are Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, and Wuling.  Former GM automotive brands include McLaughlin, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Hummer, Saab, Saturn, as well as Vauxhall, and Opel, which were bought by Groupe PSA in 2017.

Chevrolet: Chevrolet ( ), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).  Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company.  Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency.  After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose," would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T in 1919 and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929.

Federal Motor Truck Company: The Federal Motor Truck Company was an American truck manufacturer headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.  The company was founded in 1910 as Bailey Motor Truck by Martin L. Pulcher, who would later found the Oakland Motor Car Company.  The last Federal vehicle made for the US marketplace was made in 1959.

Ryknield Motor Company: The Ryknield Motor Company, originally established as the Ryknield Engine Company was a short-lived motor car manufacturer of the early twentieth century.  Based in Burton-upon-Trent in England, the company was formed by a number of prominent business men in February 1902.  Ernest E. Baguley, who had apprenticed in the rail industry with Hawthorn Leslie and Company, and then W. G. Bagnall, saw the potential of the motor car, and in 1901, Baguley designed a steam-engine for a motor car.  His employer at the time, Bagnalls, were not interested in the concept, so he left the company and joined the Ryknield Engine Company as manager in November 1902.

Virginia and Truckee Railway Motor Car 22: Virginia and Truckee Railway Motor Car 22, also called McKeen Motor Car 70, is a gasoline-powered railcar at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City in the U.S. state of Nevada.  It was built for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad in 1910 by the McKeen Motor Car Company.  Motor Car 22 was operated by the Virginia and Truckee until 1945, when it was sold off and became a diner until 1955.  It eventually became the office and storage space for a plumbing business before it was donated to the Nevada State Railroad Museum in 1995.  After a thorough study, the Museum undertook a restoration of the McKeen car in 1997.  The restored motor car was unveiled in 2010, a century after it was originally delivered to the Virginia and Truckee.  Motor Car 22 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2012.  It is one of a few surviving McKeen railcars, and the only one that is operational.

Sunbeam Motor Car Company: Sunbeam Motor Car Company Limited was a British motor car manufacturer with its works at Moorfields in Blakenhall, a suburb of Wolverhampton in the county of Staffordshire, now West Midlands.  Its Sunbeam name had been registered by John Marston in 1888 for his bicycle manufacturing business.  Sunbeam motor car manufacture began in 1901.  The motor business was sold to a newly incorporated Sunbeam Motor Car Company Limited in 1905 to separate it from Marston's pedal bicycle business; Sunbeam motorcycles were not made until 1912.

History of General Motors: The history of General Motors (GM), one of the world's largest car and truck manufacturers, reaches back more than a century and involves a vast scope of industrial activity around the world, mostly focused on motorized transportation and the engineering and manufacturing that make it possible.  Founded in 1908 as a holding company, in Flint, Michigan, as of 2012 it employs approximately 202,000 people around the world.  With global headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, United States, GM manufactures cars and trucks in 35 countries.  In 2008, 8.35 million GM cars and trucks were sold globally under various brands.  Current auto brands are Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden and Wuling.  Former GM automotive brands include McLaughlin, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Opel, Pontiac, Hummer, Saab, Saturn and Vauxhall.

Pontiac Assembly: Pontiac Assembly was one of four General Motors assembly plants in Pontiac, Michigan located along Baldwin Avenue.  It served as the main facility for Pontiac Motor Division since it was built in 1927.  It is across the street from the currently operational Pontiac Metal Center, which was the original location for the Oakland Motor Car Company, which Pontiac evolved into.  The plant ceased production of full-size Pontiacs after the 1980 model year, and was idled on August 6, 1982.

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Answer: 2008