general motors

Introduction The point of divergence from OTL is late 1973, and this timeline concerns the United States automotive market. For the 1974 model year, General Motors introduced the Air Cushion Restraint System (ACRS) as an option on certain Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac models. ACRS was the...

On February 29, 2012, Opel/Vauxhall announced the creation of a major alliance with Peugeot-Citroën resulting in General Motors taking a 7% share of Peugeot-Citroën, becoming Peugeot-Citroën's second-largest shareholder after the Peugeot family. The alliance was intended to enable $2 billion per...

WI: Holden Motors was never purchased by GM? Holden is an Australian automobile importer and former manufacturer of vehicles. It was independent until 1931 when it was purchased by General Motors and became a subsidiary of that company. Often marketed as Australia's home grown car company...

Thanks to Robert Durant's relationship with Sam McLaughlin events, through several twists and turns, saw the Oshawa based McLaughlin Motor Car Company becoming a part of GM and renamed General Motors of Canada. The original plants were much nearer the centre of town diagonally opposite from each...

This timeline will explore an alternate General Motors through the vehicle lineups of Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac. The timeline will mostly focus on the domestic car lineups, but trucks, vans, and especially SUV'S will be focused on as well as the SUV segment grows...

As the title says, the challenge is to successfully establish both Cadillac and Lincoln in the UK/Europe as legitimate luxury marques yet the models have to be specifically tailored to the demands of such markets as a result of UK/European divisions being formed.