In 1908, an automobile company named General Motors was founded. What started as a holding company for Buicks has become the world's leading and largest automobile manufacturing company today. It has 340,000 employees from different parts of the world. In 2001 alone, General Motors has sold 15% of all trucks and cars in the world.
General Motors brought out a bus company named Yellow Couch, during the 1920s and 1930s. Yellow Couch Company was the one behind the creation of Greyhound bus lines and replaced the train transport system with buses. The company also established subsidiary companies and bought out several street car or tram companies for them to replace trams with buses. During the World War II, GM and its Ford subsidiaries supplied US military trucks to defend USA flag while manufacturing 90% of armored mule, a 3-ton truck and over 70% of Reich trucks at the same time. According to US intelligence, these vehicles served as the backbone of Germany's Army transportation system.
A US-based company with main headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, GM has been operating worldwide and the company behind other automobile brands such as Cadillac, Buick, Daewoo, Chevrolet, Hummer, GMC, Oldsmobile, Holden, Opel, Vauxhall, Pontiac, Saab, and Saturn.
In addition, their GMC and Chevrolet divisions manufacture trucks. GM is also the company behind Allison Transmission and ACDelco. They also have General Motors Electro-Motive Division, the one responsible for producing diesel-electric locomotives. Moreover, the company owns stakes in Japan-based companies Subaru, Isuzu, and Suzuki, Italy-based company Lancia and Alfa Romeo, South Korea-based company Daewoo, and South Africa-based company Delta. General Motors also have a joint venture with Russia-based company Auto Vaz (Lada).
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