He tries to visit Smith at GM's headquarters in Detroit, yet he is blocked by building security as Moore hasn't made an appointment.

On June 3, 2008, one day prior to GM's annual shareholder meeting, Rick Wagoner, GM's CEO at that time, said the brand was being reviewed, and had the possibility of either being sold, having the production line completely redesigned, or being discontinued.

However, GM's engines had not reached production when the Pacer was to hit the showrooms.

He reveals that his heroes were the Flint natives who had escaped the life in GM's factories, including " Flint's most famous native son ," game show host Bob Eubanks.

" Sloan was far from the sole author of GM's financial and accounting systems, as GM later had many trained minds in accounting and finance ; but regardless of authorship, GM's financial controls — at one time considered top-notch — eventually proved to have latent drawbacks.

The last generation of GM's full-size wagons returned to the upward-lifting rear window as had been used in the 1940s.

By 1952 the American owned producers in the UK ( Ford and GM's Vauxhall ) had between them a 29 % share of the British market, which exceeded the share of either of Britain's top two manufacturers.

Air-cooled engines have had commercial success before and since, in various fields ( small engines, aircraft, cars ), but the historical moment of GM's " copper-cooled " automotive engine was inauspicious.

Shortly thereafter the union decided that it could not survive by piecemeal organizing campaigns at smaller plants, as it had in the past, but that it could organize the automobile industry only by going after its biggest and most powerful employer, General Motors Corporation, focusing on GM's production complex in Flint, Michigan.

Within three years GM's Oldsmobile had rolled out an ahead of its time front-wheel drive Toronado and Cadillac reintroduced its exclusive Eldorado as a long-nose, short-tail 2 + 2 design.

As a result of Kettering's close relationship with both GM and Flxible, many GM parts were used in the production of Flxible vehicles, particularly prior to GM's 1943 purchase of Yellow Coach ( a competing bus manufacturer, of which GM had been a majority owner since 1925 ).

According to Snell, GM's own testimony had shown that by the mid-1950s, GM and its agents had canvassed more than 1, 000 electric railways and had motorized 90 %— more than 900 systems.

In reality Pacific Electric Railway ( who operated the ' red cars ') had been hemorrhaging routes as traffic congestion got much worse with growing prosperity and car ownership levels after the end of WW2 long before GM got involved in 1953 ( There is however a more compelling case that GM's actions precipitated the demise of the more central / urban transit system that was serving the same area: the Los Angeles Railway ' Yellow Cars '.

The $ 24, 251 Eldorado was now the same size that GM's own compact cars had been only a few years earlier, and considerably smaller than Lincoln's competing Mark VII.

The dip in sales was partly due to competition from GM's own Buick Riviera, which grew 11 " this year in a dramatic restyle, and had a production increase from 8, 625 units in 1988 to 21, 189 in 1989.

On 30 May 2009, it was announced that a deal had been reached to transfer GM's Opel assets to a separate company majority-owned by a consortium led by Sberbank of Russia ( 27. 5 %), Magna International of Canada ( 27. 5 %), and Opel employees and car dealers ( 10 %).

During the 1973-74 energy crisis, which brought on a greater demand for smaller cars in place of the larger cars that had been GM's bread and butter profit machine for decades, Mitchell oversaw the styling and design efforts of GM's downsized full-sized and intermediate-sized cars which were introduced in 1977 and 1978, respectively, some of the last designs that he would lead -- and all based on themes first developed in his 1975 Cadillac Seville.

The 1971 – 78 generation is mainly noted for the early use of two safety features that are now required on all cars in the United States, the aforementioned high mounted taillights ( although a somewhat similar feature had appeared briefly as an option on the Ford Thunderbird in the late 1960s ), and from 1974 through 1976, the Toronado was part of GM's first experimental production run of driver-and passenger-side airbags, which GM named the Air Cushion Restraint System.

1957 was chiefly notable for the introduction of one of GM's most memorable designs, the Series 70 Eldorado Brougham.

Because the Century was considered the senior " small Buick ", the model received GM's only hardtop station wagon, the Century Caballero, from 1957 through 1958.

With GM's ban on factory-sponsored racing, Pontiac's young, visionary management turned its attention to emphasizing street performance.

Holden has taken charge of GM's vehicle operations in Australasia, and on their behalf, held partial ownership of GM Daewoo in South Korea between 2002 and 2009.

DeLorean's version was rejected because of GM's concern that his design would take away sales from the Corvette, their flagship performance vehicle, so instead they forced him to work with the existing Camaro design.

For GM's former management, the Prius came as a wake-up call, though by the time they unveiled their own petrol-electric concept car at the Detroit motor show in January 2007, it was widely agreed that they were late to the party.

GM's Cadillac division experimented with their V8-6-4 power plant ( the ancestor of the modern-day Active Fuel Management and / or variable displacement ), which was a market failure.

Launched in 2006 after GM's 2003 abandonment of their last European rear-drive sedan, the Opel Omega, the VE is the first Commodore model designed entirely in Australia, as opposed to being based on an adapted Opel-sourced platform.

Oldsmobile has called second gear as the ' Super ' range — which was first used on their 4-speed Hydramatic transmissions although the use of the term continued until the early 1980s when GM's Turbo Hydramatic automatic transmissions were standardized by all of their divisions years after the 4-speed Hydramatic was discontinued.

Changes to the rear included the removal of the rear fender skegs ( GM's Vice President of design Bill Mitchell disliked skegs, and personally ordered their removal ), and oval taillights replaced the 1961's round units.

Much of the film accounts for GM's efforts to demonstrate to California that there was no demand for their product and then to reclaim every last EV1 and dispose of them.

This extreme flexibility of design is both a feature that is particularly of interest to GM's and players that want to model very specific forms of magic in their setting ( s ), but can also be overwhelming to GM's and players that just want to play a game with some established boundaries and not have to worry about such things themselves.

The LLY was GM's first attempt to implement emissions requirements on their diesel trucks.

The primary problem with GM's diesel engines of the 1970s was their design-weakness in the head design and head bolts, which were not able to withstand the higher cylinder pressures and temperatures of diesel use.

The R-body featured a MacPherson strut front suspension and beam axle rear suspension, which foreshadowed most of GM's offerings through their current model lineup.

Both Pontiac and Oldsmobile offered the Turbo Hydra-Matic on all of their full-sized cars with any engine offering, and three-speed automatics were also the norm on big cars from GM's medium-priced competitors such as the Chrysler Newport and Mercury Monterey, which offered the TorqueFlite and Cruise-O-Matic transmissions, respectively.

Buick had released a new line of cars that were technically superior to their predecessors by offering such features as all-steel passenger compartment tops ( GM's Turret Top design ), improved front suspension, improved hydraulic safety-breaking system, alloy engine pistons and an improved engine cooling system.

Cadillac has also re-entered Motorsport competition with their CTS-V R, a joint venture between GM Performance Division and Pratt & Miller race team, most famous for their role in GM's Le Mans winning Corvette C5-R program.

" GM's new C bodies, introduced midway through the 1940 model year, made Packard's traditional bodies, only facelifted since their 1938 introduction, look dated.

For instance, a player might adjust his character's actions if the player has some foreknowledge of the long-term intentions of the gamemaster, or, more commonly, the GM's tendency to have ( or not to have ) mercy on players whose characters do things that would cause them to fail at their objectives.

North American automakers have in 2006 and 2007 enthusiastically promoted a blend of 85 % ethanol and 15 % gasoline, marketed as E85, and their flex-fuel vehicles, e. g. GM's " Live Green, Go Yellow " campaign.

* Oldsmobile Firenza ( 1982 – 1988 )-compact sedan, hatchback, coupe, and station wagon based on GM's J-body, sharing the same bodyshell with the Chevrolet Cavalier, Pontiac Sunbird, Buick Skyhawk, and Cadillac Cimarron.

This year also saw De Lorean leaving the post of general manager to accept a similar position at GM's Chevrolet division.

The Mustang created the " pony car " class of American automobiles — sports car-like coupes with long hoods and short rear decks — and gave rise to competitors such as GM's Chevrolet Camaro, AMC's Javelin, and Chrysler's revamped Plymouth Barracudas and Dodge Challengers.

Entry level Pintos were priced on launch at around $ 1850, making the Pinto the least expensive Ford since the " Six " of 1958, undercutting GM's Chevrolet Vega and directly targeting imported models — which continued to add competitors such as the Mazda 1200 in 1971, the Subaru DL in 1972, and the Honda Civic in 1973.

Lotus ' powertrain department is responsible for the design and development of the 4-cylinder Ecotec engine found in many of GM's Vauxhall, Opel, Saab, Chevrolet and Saturn cars.

The 1970 Chevrolet Nova was released behind schedule under DeLorean's leadership of GM's Chevrolet division.

The Chevrolet Avalanche is a four-door, five or six passenger sport utility truck sharing GM's long-wheelbase chassis used on the Chevrolet Suburban and Cadillac Escalade EXT.

In January 2007, GMC was GM's second-largest-selling North American vehicle division after Chevrolet, ahead of Pontiac.

In 2009 GMC introduced the Terrain, a mid-size crossover SUV based on GM's Theta platform which slots below the Acadia as GMC's smallest crossover, replacing the Pontiac Torrent and sharing no sheetmetal with the Chevrolet Equinox.

This model was part of GM's family of compact " J-cars ", along with the Ascona, the Australian Holden Camira, the Brazilian Chevrolet Monza, the Japanese Isuzu Aska, and the North American Chevrolet Cavalier, Pontiac Sunbird, Buick Skyhawk, Oldsmobile Firenza, and Cadillac Cimarron.

The J2000 shared GM's internationally used J-Body platform with the Chevrolet Cavalier, Oldsmobile Firenza, Buick Skyhawk, Cadillac Cimarron in North America.

This Cutlass was lighter than earlier versions at around, and it could be ordered with any of several engines built by GM's different divisions ; a Buick 231 V6, Oldsmobile 260 V8, Pontiac 301 V8 or Chevrolet 305 V8s with either 2 or 4 barrel carburetors.

The Chevrolet Chevette was introduced in September 1975 and manufactured for model years 1976-1987 based on GM's worldwide T platform and superseding the Vega as Chevrolet's entry-level subcompact.

The next large rear wheel drive Buick sedan would be the 1992 – 1996 Roadmaster, sharing the same B-body as the Chevrolet Caprice and GM's last full-size rear wheel drive station wagons.

The Chevrolet Monte Carlo used the same basic G-body as the GP but with a two-inch shorter wheelbase ( 116 vs. the GP's 118 ) and a long hood, though still a bit shorter than the Grand Prix's, but still considered an upscale vehicle for GM's lowest-priced division.

GM's " A " body cars ' front suspensions were based on the road-hugging Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird during this production run.

" In 2009, CNN Money noted in " GM's junk heap " of unsuccessful nameplates that the Cimarron was, " In all important respects, a Chevrolet Cavalier.

The Cougar was being marketed as an intermediate-sized personal-luxury car to compete against GM's Chevrolet Monte Carlo and Pontiac Grand Prix.

Buick and Oldsmobile were frequently considered GM's upmarket brand compared to Chevrolet, while Cadillac was considered the luxury brand.

The 2-door coupe ( produced alongside the Chevrolet Monte Carlo at GM's Pontiac, Michigan plant ) continued, until the new front-wheel drive version was released in December 1987.

The Chevrolet Vega, introduced in September 1970, was GM's first subcompact, economy car.