The same engine, however, can be made to provide evenly spaced power pulses by using a crankshaft with an individual crank throw for each cylinder, spaced so that the pistons are actually phased 120 ° apart, as in the GM 3800 engine.

On April 27, 2009, GM officially announced that Pontiac would be dropped and that all of its remaining models would be phased out by the end of 2010.

GM phased out the Pontiac brand in October 2010, while Ford in March 2010 sold Volvo to the Chinese manufacturer Geely Automobile ( after it had sold its other luxury brands of Jaguar, Land Rover, and Aston Martin ).

GM followed suit in 1996 where its B-body line was phased out, where its sports cars ( Camaro, Firebird, Corvette ) were the only RWDs marketed ; by the early 2000s, the Chevrolet Corvette and Cadillac Catera were the only RWD cars offered by General Motors until the introduction of the Sigma platform.

The " game " was much more story-oriented, with the dice rolling and GM role phased out in favor of players / writers coming up with their own twists and turns in the game.

Production of the Pontiac Vibe hatchback was discontinued in August 2009 as GM phased out the Pontiac brand.

The GM W-body platform is in the process of being phased out.

After the 2013 model year, the W-body will have been completely phased out in favor of the GM Epsilon platform.

For the 2010 model year, the GM badges were phased out from those trucks, although fewer 2010 models had the GM logo on the doors.

In the mid-1970s, GM was using powerplants sourced from various GM divisions where the Buick V8 was considered a factory option with the Buick 350 as the sole survivor, or in the worst case, for Buick vehicles where the 400 / 430 / 455 big blocks were phased out because of fuel economy / emission requirements.

Sales of the Adventra range never achieved Holden's expectations, especially in comparison to the rival Ford Territory, and it was ultimately phased out of production in 2006 to make way for the newly introduced Captiva, imported from GM Daewoo in South Korea.

In addition, GM phased out all GM badges from the front doors for the 2010. 5 model year, including the Chevrolet HHR.

GM phased out all GM badges from vehicles on the 2010. 5 models, including the Cadillac DTS.

Around 1980, a lock-up torque converter was introduced ; this transmission was phased out in 1984 in GM passenger cars for the 700R4.

The THM200-4R was phased out after 1990 — its final usage was in the GM B-body lineup ( Chevrolet Caprice, Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon, Cadillac Brougham ) coupled to either a Chevrolet 305 or an Oldsmobile 307 engine.

The factory also produced GM medium-duty trucks, which were phased out in 2009 after GM discontinued that division.

Hiring Petree turned out to be beneficial, as the No. 3 GM Goodwrench Chevy returned to the front in 1993.

Special pennants bearing the No. 3 were distributed to everyone at the track to honor Earnhardt, and the Childress team wore blank uniforms out of respect, something which disappeared quickly and was soon replaced by the previous GM Goodwrench Service Plus uniforms.

The game's rules suggest listing examples of what the magic system can do at each power level, working these out with the GM.

* Author: The GM plans out ( in the loosest sense ) the plot of the story of which the Player Characters will become heroes ( or villains, or rich, or whatever ); creating ( or adapting, or just choosing ) the setting, populating that region with villains and other NPCs, and assigning them any necessary backgrounds, motivations, plans and resources.

The GM is typically the one to organize the game in the first place, find players, schedule sessions, and figure out a place to play, as well as acting as a mediator and having to balance the needs and desires of all participants — sometimes having to divine the real desires of indecisive or self-deluded players.

Many, many details still had to be worked out, both within GM and in the U. S. occupied zone of Germany, before this could actually occur.

When Pocklington revealed his plans to trade Gretzky to Oilers general manager and head coach Glen Sather, Sather went to work trying to stop the trade, but, when he found out Gretzky played a part in it, he changed his attitude to GM as he requested Luc Robitaille in exchange.

After sales of General Motors vehicles plummeted and when the U. S Government bailed out the company, GM began developing more fuel efficient cars and trucks in order to compete with foreign automakers.

Later that year GM bought out the other 50 % after the unexpected death of Edward M. Murphy at the age of 45.

In a series of transactions consummated in 2003, Hughes Electronics was spun out of GM and the News Corporation purchased a controlling interest in the new company, which was renamed The DIRECTV Group.

If a GM tube is exposed to a steady radiation source and the applied voltage increased from zero, at first the count rate increases rapidly ; at a certain voltage the rate of increase flattens out ( only changing a few per cent for every 100 volts increase ).

Prevalent throughout the film is Sheriff's Deputy Fred Ross, who worked at for GM for seventeen years before accepting his sheriff's deputy position, whose job now demands that he go around town carrying out evictions on families unable to pay their rent.

The war showed how nationality was not irrelevant to multinational corporations, as the national governments on both sides of the Allied – Axis divide used the industrial capacity of GM ( the Allies, Detroit and Vauxhall, the Axis, Opel ) to churn out materiel for their war efforts.

He predicted that remaining at the top its industry and the economy would prove a bigger challenge for GM than was getting there ; and it turned out that he was right.

After four months of controlling but co-owning Group Lotus with Toyota, the Japanese company sold out to GM.

When John was appointed, Chevrolet was having financial and organizational troubles, and GM president Ed Cole needed a first-class manager in that position to sort things out – company man or not.

GM was forced to phase out the Hummer brand in early 2010 as a part of its bankruptcy restructuring after offering it for sale, but failing to find a suitable buyer.

Adjacent to the GM pavilion was the Ford Pavilion, where race car drivers drove on a figure eight track on the building's roof endlessly, day in and day out.

He was elected to the board of directors ( February, 1986 ) and became CEO ( August, 1990 ) where he served until he was voted out in 1992 – shortly after a recession when GM had closed a dozen plants, lost 74, 000 jobs and lost $ 7 billion.

The men and their teams generally credited with the creation of the original Thunderbird are: Lewis D. Crusoe, a retired GM executive lured out of retirement by Henry Ford II ; George Walker, chief stylist and a Ford vice-president ; Frank Hershey, chief stylist for Ford Division ; Bill Boyer, designer Body Development Studio who became manager of Thunderbird Studio in spring of 1955, and Bill Burnett, chief engineer.

This line has gone out of fashion since the 1960s due to GM Svetozar Gligorić's gambit idea 8. cxd5 exd5 9. a3 Ba5 10. b4!

On December 30, 1936 the Union learned that GM was planning to move the dies out of Fisher # 1.

In part this was to avoid giving GM and its allies an issue to use against the strike ; in part it was out of fear of distancing the Party from the strikers, who were, in the opinion of CP leadership, using revolutionary means to achieve traditional union goals.

He immediately set out to create another " GM ," starting with the Little car, named after its founder, William H. Little.

* GM Buffalo bus, a slang term for several models of intercity motorcoach

It utilized the experimental EMD LWT12 locomotive (), coupled to a set of modified GM Truck & Coach Division 40-seat intercity bus coach bodies ().