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...GM had previously focused on launching electric and hybrid cars under the Chevrolet brand, including the mass-market Bolt....
...At stake was the company’s survival, whether victims would be adequately compensated and the trust of millions of consumers in the GM brands, which include Buick, Cadillac and Chevrolet....
...The US industry never offered any real competition for its luxury driving machines: a Cadillac is no Mercedes....
...GM, which owns the Cadillac, Chevrolet and Buick brands, announced adjusted pre-tax profits of $3.4bn for the three months, up by $700m on the same period last year....
...When General Motors buys electricity for the Texas plant that makes hundreds of its Chevrolet and Cadillac trucks each day, it normally does a deal with a local power utility lasting at most a couple of...
...It also announced a partnership with South Korea’s LG to develop a battery for its planned Chevrolet Bolt electric car, intended to shake up the market by offering a 200-mile range at a price of only $30,000...
...The executives in Las Vegas were largely there to promote cutting-edge technologies such as General Motors’ electric Chevrolet Bolt and driverless cars....
...Its Chevrolet Bolt concept car, revealed on Monday, highlighted the company’s determination to challenge Elon Musk’s Tesla in the growing electric vehicle market....
...Premium car sales are proving more resilient, and GM will continue to sell higher-end vehicles including Cadillac and some US-built Chevrolet models in Russia....
...Cadillac hopes to take on Mercedes, BMW and other luxury-vehicle manufacturers with wider, more attractive ranges....
...They can find a Chevrolet Volt electric car followed by a compact Malibu sedan then a larger Impala. Within a few months, the Cadillac ELR luxury electric car will join the mix....
..., Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles, beginning in 2014 in the US and Canada....
...Better control of financing options could prove important in China, where GM wants to establish an important market for its Cadillac luxury brand and other products, including its Chevrolet and Buick saloons...
...Advertisements for the Chevrolet and Cadillac brands will run on US television during this year’s Olympic Games in London as GM is a sponsor of NBC’s coverage, Mr Morrissey said....
...However, General Motors dropped 0.2 per cent to $21.31 even as the maker of the Chevrolet, Cadillac and Buick brands said its August sales had beaten market forecasts....
...Besides Chevrolet and Cadillac, GM has five regional nameplates – GMC and Buick in North America; Opel and Vauxhall in Europe and Holden in Australasia....
...That would be like General Motors conjuring up its entire North American sales – all the Chevrolets, Cadillacs, Buicks and GMC trucks – from nothing, in the space of just a year....
...GM’s July sales included a 25 per cent advance for its four remaining brands, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC....
...General Motors’ sales were up 17 per cent from May 2009, although demand for its four remaining brands – Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC – climbed by almost a third....
...It would have been braver, and smarter in terms of investment and marketing, for GM to rename itself Chevrolet and keep only Cadillac as a second US brand....
..., GMC and especially Chevrolet, its expanding global value marque....
...Chevrolet, GM’s flagship brand, has kept its main agency, Campbell-Ewald, but has invited others to compete for specific campaigns....
...Among the changes were a measure to reduce and delay taxes on so-called “Cadillac” healthcare plans because of objections from labour unions....
...Susan Docherty, GM’s vice president of US sales, noted that she was pleased with consumer interest in its launch vehicles and said that sales of its Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac brands picked up in...
...GM is increasingly seeking to shift buyers’ attention from the parent company’s soiled image to its four remaining core brands – Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac....
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