GMC

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General Motors Truck Company

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legal form subsidiary
founding July 22, 1911
Reason for dissolution Merger with parent company
Seat Detroit United StatesUnited States
Website www.gmc.com

GMC ( General Motors Company ) is a trademark of the automobile manufacturer General Motors , which was introduced by the General Motors Truck Company .

history

At the end of 1908 GM took over the Reliance Motor Truck Company and in November 1909 the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company , a truck manufacturer founded in Detroit in 1900 as Grabowsky Motor Vehicle Co. by the brothers Max Grabowski and Morris Grabowski . The trucks and buses were initially sold as Reliance and Rapid . In January 1912 they were first exhibited with the GMC logo at the New York Auto Show in Madison Square Garden and sold under this GMTC brand from February 1912.

The GMC brand was largely reserved for the Group's commercial vehicles . In terms of their home market, every SUV is also a truck . GM disappeared from the market for medium-duty commercial vehicles in 2011. In the heaviest truck class in the USA, only Navistar sold more than GM in 1979 , but in the 1980s overall demand and market share dwindled, whereupon GM acquired this division within a few years Volvo gave up. Since the second decade of the 21st century, only pick-ups , vans and SUVs of the GMC brand have been manufactured.

Current models

Timeline

Timeline of light GMC models since 1980
Type 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0
Crossover SUVs terrain terrain terrain
Acadia Acadia
SUVs S-15 Jimmy Jimmy
Typhoon Envoy Envoy
K5 Jimmy Yukon Yukon Yukon Yukon
Suburban Suburban Yukon XL Yukon XL Yukon XL
Pick-ups S-15 Sonoma Sonoma
Caballero Syclone Canyon Canyon
C / K C / K Sierra Sierra Sierra Sierra
Vans safari
Vandura Savana

Web links

Commons : GMC (vehicles)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Donald E. Meyer: The first Century of GMC Truck History (PDF; 501 kB) GM Heritage Center. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
  2. ^ The Rapid Motor Vehicle Company And Max Grabowski on automotivecrossing.com
  3. ↑ a b Heavy Trucks (PDF; 975 kB) In: 2013 Vehicle Technologies Market Report . Oak Ridge National Laboratory . Archived from the original on August 26, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 6, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cta.ornl.gov
  4. ↑ James Risen: Mounting Losses Spur GM-Volvo Joint Venture for Heavy-Duty Trucks . In: Los Angeles Times . August 16, 1986 ( online [accessed April 6, 2014]).
  5. ↑ Volvo Sets Heavy-duty Push Into Truck Market . In: Chicago Tribune . January 29, 1989 ( online [accessed April 6, 2014]).