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Cadillac Motor Car Division, or simply Cadillac (/ ˈ k æ d ɪ l æ k /), is a division of the American automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) that designs and builds luxury vehicles. Its major markets are the United States, Canada and China. Cadillac models are distributed in 34 additional markets worldwide.
General Motors Company (GM) [2] is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. [3] The company is most known for owning and manufacturing four automobile brands: Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac, each a separate division of GM.
The General Motors K platform (commonly called the K-body) was the basis of the Cadillac Seville model over two entirely different automobile platforms. 1975–1979 General Motors K platform (RWD) 1980–1999 General Motors K platform (FWD)
Alongside its Advance Design, Task Force, and C/K predecessors, the Chevrolet Silverado currently shares chassis and mechanical commonality with the Suburban and other trucks. Traditionally one of the most profitable vehicles sold by General Motors, [1] the
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%).
The W-platform (also known as the W-body) was a General Motors automotive platform underpinning both mid size and full-size front-wheel drive cars — across the platform's three generations from 1987-2016.
The General Motors K platform (commonly called the K-body) was an automobile platform designation used for front wheel drive Cadillac models beginning in 1980. It replaced the rear wheel drive K platform. The K-body designation was used for sedans; similar coupé models used the nearly identical GM E platform.
The 2,600,000-square-foot (240,000 m 2) factory opened in 1937 to build Buick, Pontiac, and Oldsmobile vehicles from "knock down kits".Linden was the second of several B-O-P "branch" assembly plants (the first being the Pontiac-operated South Gate plant), part of GM's strategy to have production facilities in major metropolitan cities.