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...GM has delayed plans to build electric versions of its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks....
...GM will delay building electrified versions of its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pick-up trucks at a Michigan plant until 2025, instead of next year....
...Rival GM plans to follow the GMC Hummer, which revives the name of the archetypal early 2000s gas-guzzler, with an electric version of the Chevrolet Silverado....
...GMC is the company’s premium truck and SUV brand. Its line-up includes the full-size Sierra truck and large Yukon SUVs....
...Among them will be a new version of the Town and Country minivan from Fiat Chrysler and a big SUV from GM’s GMC premium truck brand....
...Ford is especially dependent on its F-series pickup trucks, while General Motors does disproportionately well out of its GMC pickups and sports utility vehicles....
...Elsewhere, GM is introducing a diesel version of the Chevrolet Colorado mid-sized pick-up truck in Thailand, a market long dominated by Toyota....
...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....
...It shed four lossmaking brands including Hummer and Saturn but held on to Buick and GMC, its truck brand, for dubious reasons....
...GM said on Tuesday that the incentives were concentrated on pick-up trucks. Both GM and Ford are stepping up production....
...“I don’t believe anyone would buy a car or truck from a brand that they did not trust.” Toyota’s retail sales were ahead of GM and Ford last month....
...Sales of the remaining brands – Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC – climbed by almost a third....
...Retail sales of its other four brands – Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick – rose 13 per cent. GM had a lower reliance on fleet sales....
...four: Buick, Cadillac, GMC and especially Chevrolet, its expanding global value marque....
...Its four remaining brands are Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick....
...GMC not only has a bigger market share than BMW but, with a line-up consisting entirely of pick-up trucks, sport-utility vehicles and, most recently, crossovers, it has been one of GM’s most profitable brands...
...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....
...GMC is a venerable truck brand but it overlaps heavily with Chevrolet, which sold 72,000 trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles in May compared with GMC’s 24,000....
...GM was always happier starting up new brands, such as Saturn and Hummer, than closing others such as Pontiac that were in decline. They will also have cleaner balance sheets....
...Furthermore, the G3 plugs a gap at GM’s Buick, Pontiac and GMC dealerships....
...GM’s North American options will comprise four core brands: Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC. Its dealer network is also set to shrink....
...However, North American sales of its Chevrolet, GMC, Pontiac and other brands fell by 10 per cent in the quarter to less than 1m....
...the same dealers, with its GMC range of light trucks....
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