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Active Fuel Management (formerly known as displacement on demand (DoD)) is a trademarked name for the automobile variable displacement technology from General Motors. It allows a V6 or V8 engine to "turn off" half of the cylinders under light-load conditions to improve fuel economy .
The Chevrolet Silverado is a range of trucks manufactured by General Motors under the Chevrolet brand. [1] Introduced for the 1999 model year, the Silverado is the successor to the long-running Chevrolet C/K model line. Taking its name from the top trim level from the Chevrolet C/K series, the Silverado is offered as a series of full-size ...
The Framingham location was the center of several contentious tug-of-wars between Governor Michael Dukakis and local politician Anthony M. Colonna.After the town refused to sell General Motors a 35-acre (140,000 m 2), town-owned piece of property GM desired for the construction of a new paint and plastics facility, [3] Dukakis used the state's power of eminent domain to take the property from ...
In January 2013, GM announced $600 million in upgrades to the plant including a new 450,000-square-foot (42,000 m 2) paint shop and a new stamping press. The renovations were aimed at reducing water consumption and chemical waste, and were not expected to interfere with production. [ 2 ]
In 2009, GM had renamed itself as General Motors Company, creating its former appellation: General Motors Corporation. On May 30, 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 (35%), Magna International (20%), and Opel employees (10%).
But financial engineering ended up driving GM into bankruptcy years ago -- a look at its balance sheet over the last decade reveals that GM has been bankrupt -- in that its liabilities have ...
Why did General Motors (GM) fail? A third reason is ignoring the competition. GM has been ignoring competition -- with a brief interruption -- for about 50 years. In the 1960s, GM controlled half ...
Since GM was focused on profiting from finance, it did not really care that much about building better vehicles. In January 2006, I doubted that GM could transform Why GM failed: 4.