Inspired he then bought the Oldsmobile brand

There was a time where Barack Obama put the hand in the Pocket, the Federal State holding now 60 of the capital of the company. Especially because the fate of GM has never really been a long quiet river. It is on the edges of the Detroit River frozen winter, tumultuous summer, that William Crapo Durant, innate and passionate automotive seller dream early in the century last in a General Motors Company. The man is already owner, since 1890, a successful business... of trucks. Then when he proposes to buy the Buick company, it is the challenge and put in four years the production of thirty to more than eight thousand cars. Inspired, he then bought the Oldsmobile brand. General Motors was born. We are in 1908. A year later, during offered Pontiac to a price so high that bankers take fear. That never mind, the same year, he recidivism with Cadillac. Unfortunately, sales of cars crash in 1910 and forced in to sell at a loss some of its companies. But the man is a winner. It immediately creates a new company with a certain Louis Chevrolet. Him, he bought a majority stake in GM in 1916 and returned to the commands. The story can really begin. As early as the 1920s, GM says as "the first global automobile manufacturer". Its strength A competitive price (cars have the same base) for a design and unsurpassed quality! Question style, Mark knows mark the spirits.

GM is the first to treat the aerodynamics of its body (sublime fineness of the Cadillac Fleetwood of 1936 which can afford five copies for the price of a single Rolls, its competitor). She loves cause with models worthy of UFO as the Buick Y - Job signed the famous Harley Earl which provides power steering, electric capote and centralised door locking as soon... 1938! The grand finale arrives with the 1950s and 1960s. That would be the ride of Bourvil in Le Corniaud without the Cadillac Eldorado Seville (1959) to the vertiginous chrome fins... With respect to the sensual Corvette StingRay in 1963 (first sports cars with fiberglass bodywork), they are never part of the Automotive Hall of Fame. As well as of other than the rustic but not less famous pickup GMC. These beasts of burden and machine to cash - number 1 sales of the whole decades - crisscross even the American campaign as did Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep in the film on the road at Madison...

These traits of searing staked the life of GM and this continues! Irony of history, the engineers of the first American constructor failed currently holding in their cartons one of the most accomplished public ecological models that is. The Chevrolet Volt. Its quality: be the first hybrid vehicle (combining gas and electricity) rechargeable. In other words, the Volt promises 60 kilometres of travel to electricity without having to call in the gasoline engine. Sufficient autonomy to go daily to work and return to the House without polluting! Gasoline will be there for the long, very long distances: 700 kilometres before refuel. This visionary vehicle should roll by two seasons. "Time to clean up the accounts, to reorganize the production and, perhaps, to fine-tune the performance of an object already baptized by his"best car of the third millennium"fans." What is good for GM is good for America, said, in 1953, Charles Erwin Wilson, the pattern of the time GM." Sixty years later, he has, hopefully, always reason.