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• Marquette
  ...[[LaSalle]], the '''Marquette''' conceived to span a price gap in General Motors' market segmentation plan. Marquette was placed below Buick, but above Viki ...olved Oldsmobile, which lost sales to Marquette; the second was that Buick executives didn't feel that enough Marquette's were sold to warrant the extra burden o
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• Henry M. Leland
  Leland sold Cadillac to [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] on July 29, 1909 for $5.6 million but remained as an executive until 1917 [[Category:General Motors executives|Leland, Henry]]
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• James M. Roche
  ...Corporation]]. He is credited for promoting racial equality within General Motors (GM). ...ay.com/money/autos/2004-06-07-gm-roche_x.htm USATODAY.com - Former General Motors chairman James Roche dies<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Roche never we
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• A.E. Barit
  ...] from 1936 to 1954 when Hudson merged with Nash Motors to form [[American Motors Corporation]]. Barit served on the Board of AMC following the merger of th ...tors by the Fisher family—founders of [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] [[Fisher Body]] division.
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• Charles Warren Nash
  ...uick]] and [[William C. Durant]], and in 1908 became Buick's president and general manager. In 1910, he was hired as general manager of [[General Motors]] (GM). He took over a debt-ridden company suffering losses and increased p
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• Robert Lutz
  ...A. "Bob" Lutz''' (born February 12, 1932) is a vice chairman at [[General Motors Company]]. On July 10, 2009 Chairman [[Fritz Henderson]] announced that Lu ...he development of the [[BMW 3-Series]]. He is one of few senior automotive executives with experience in both hemispheres and more than one major manufacturer. H
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• Ed Cole
  ...igan) was an automotive executive for [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]]. He is the father of [[David E. Cole]], [[Center for Automotive Research] ...briefly assigned to run a GM plant in Cleveland, Ohio, when [[Chevrolet]] general manager Tom Keating requested his assignment as chief engineer.
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• William C. Durant
  ...eer of the United States [[automobile]] industry, the founder of [[General Motors]] and [[Chevrolet]] who created the system of multi-brand holding companies ...anged the incorporation by proxies of [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] and quickly thereafter sold stock, and with the proceeds acquired [[Oldsm
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• Charles F. Kettering
  ...der of [[Delco Electronics|Delco]], and was head of research for [[General Motors]] for 27 years from 1920 to 1947. Among his most widely used automotive inv ...tion and [[Delco Electronics]]. Kettering became vice president of General Motors Research Corporation in 1920 and held the position for 27 years.
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• Pontiac Aztek Concept
  ...50% being sold to captive rental company fleets or used by General Motors executives. The Aztek had some of the the highest Customer Satisfaction Index scores i
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• Walter Percy Chrysler
  ...h positions such as foreman, superintendent, division master mechanic, and general master mechanic. ...ow, a banker who was a director of ALCO and also an executive at [[General Motors]]. Storrow asked him if he had given any thought to automobile manufacture.
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• Alfred P. Sloan
  ...a long-time president and chairman of [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]].<ref name=NYT1/> ...th [[United Motors Corporation]] which eventually became part of [[General Motors Corporation]]. He became Vice-President, then President (1923), and finally
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• Ford EXP
  ...that the letters stood for "EXPerimental"; others said that Ford marketing executives just thought it was an interesting combination of letters that did not have From the beginning, sales of the EXP were never as strong as the marketing executives had hoped they would be. This can be partially attributed to the fact that
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• State Limousines of the United States
  ...dillac]] [[Cadillac DTS|DTS]] (DeVille Touring Sedan) built on a [[General Motors|GM]] [[four-wheel drive]] platform.<ref name="dtcad">{{cite news |first=Nei One of the first chief executives to ride in a Cadillac was President Woodrow Wilson, who rode through the st
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• MG Rover
  * 1987 [[Leyland Motors|Leyland Trucks]] division merged with [[DAF Trucks|DAF]] and then floated. ...the Chancellor of the Exchequer, visited the offices of the Transport and General Workers' Union in Birmingham and stated that there might be some hope for t
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• AMC
  ...nault]] in 1979. The arrangement lasted until March 2, 1987, when American Motors was purchased by the [[Chrysler Corporation]], which discontinued the use o ...dson Motor Car Company]] (in what was called a merger) to form '''American Motors'''. When the merger was completed in the spring of 1954, Hudson's CEO, [[A.
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• Pony car
  ...h Valiant Signet]] and [[Dodge Dart|Dodge Dart GT]], as well as [[American Motors]] (AMC) with the 440-H and Rogue versions of the [[Rambler American]], and ...e sporty compacts were a commercial success for most automakers, some auto executives, however, principally Ford's [[Lee Iacocca]], believed that sporty versions
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• Plug-in hybrid
  In 1969, ''Popular Science'' did an article on the [[General Motors]] XP-883. This prototype was a commuter car with a plug-in hybrid electric ...racted industry support and funding from [[Nissan]], Koyo Seiko, [[General Motors]], [[Saturn]], [[Ford]], [[Visteon]], [[JATCO]], [[Ovonics]], Defense Advan
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• Lincoln
  ...ns of the Henry Ford Company), left the [[Cadillac]] division of [[General Motors]] during World War I and formed the Lincoln Motor Company to build Liberty ...2. Ford's company, renamed Cadillac in 1902 and purchased by rival General Motors in 1909, also happened to be Lincoln's chief competitor. Lincoln quickly be
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• Chery QQ
  ...(which is marketed outside [[South Korea]] as the [[Chevrolet Spark]]). GM executives demonstrated the extent of the design duplication, noting for example that
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