Rapid Motor Vehicle Company was founded in 1902 by Max Grabowski.
It was the manufacturer of some of the first truck was purchased in 1909 from GM. 1912, the GMC was the first time in the car showroom in New York and in 1996 the enlargement of the truck was stopped.
What most people do not know that GMC has cars.
1902, Max Grabowski founded a company called “Rapid Motor Vehicle Company”, which has some of the first commercial trucks ever designed. In 1909, the takeover by General Motors to form the basis for the General Motors Truck Company, from which GMC Truck was. In 1912 the name “GMC Truck” was first on the New York Auto Show.
1996, GM dropped the word “Truck” from the GMC Truck name, the name of the GMC, which we know today. It was never Grabowski Motor Company or Grabowski Motor Corp.
You now have cars, vans and buses and engines.
General Motors Corporation, NYSE: GM, also known as GM, based in the United States manufacturer of automobiles in the world, including the activities and the brands Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Daewoo, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn , Saab, Vauxhall and Chevrolet and GMC divisions produce trucks, and vehicles with passengers.
All other brands include ACDelco, Allison Transmission, and General Motors Electro-Motive Division, the diesel-electric locomotives. GM also holds stakes in Isuzu, Subaru, Suzuki and Japan in a joint venture with AutoVAZ (Lada) in Russia. In December 2003, the takeover of Delta in South Africa, in which he makes a contribution of 45 percent in 1997, and this is now a subsidiary of General Motors in South Africa.
GM has its headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan.
General Motors is the largest automobile manufacturer, and employs more than 340,000 people. In 2001, GM sold 8.5 million vehicles by all industries. In 2002, GM sold 15 percent of all cars and trucks in the world. You also have the Electronic Data Systems from 1984 to 1996, which is a former Ross Perot company and, before the sale to News Corporation, DirecTV. Refrigerator GM property from 1918 to 1979.
The current President (since May 1, 2003) and Chief Executive Officer (since June 1, 2000) is Rick Wagoner, succeeding John F. Smith, Jr.
General Motors sold its stake of 20 percent stake in Fuji Heavy Industries, parent company of Subaru, in a cartel, which more than $ 700 million U.S. dollars for new on 6 October 2005.
In addition, the General Motors of Canada regarding the posting of workers in the automotive industry have Sunday a new treaty to ratify the 1000 workers sacked in the next three years, the Canadian workers in the automobile industry and the GM says.
General Motors lost 2.5 billion U.S. dollars last year, and have a profit if they do not Selles with $ 6 billion in spending for health.
The UAW and GM are now reaching an agreement, such costs to the health of approximately 1 billion U.S. dollars per year.