Talk:General Motors

Galaxyepiccool

I am wondering how you make your cars because I wanna be a car designer when I grow up so do you have anything about electric cars? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.26.103.16 (talk) 20:24, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Please be aware that this page (and all of Wikipedia) is maintained by volunteers who are not affiliated with General Motors. Our aim is to document the broad facts about General Motors rather than provide a question and answer service. Having said that, you may find electric vehicles a good place to start reading. Follow the links to other articles and follow the references to various books. Good luck.  Stepho  talk  23:08, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

[edit conflict]A better choice would be to use your favorite search engine to discover information regarding your questions. Wikipedia is not a general question and answer or discussion forum. It's great that you want to be a car designer when you grow up. Focus on your current education, get good grades, and use the vast amounts of knowledge already stored both here on Wikipedia and in a zillion places around the internet to explore your interests and passions. Good luck. Anastrophe (talk) 23:09, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Realize vs realise

Realize and realise are alternate spellings of the same word. In the US and Canada, realize is by far the more common spelling. In the UK, Australia, and New Zealand realise dominates, though realize is sometimes used too. The discrepancy stems from a history of different dictionaries and publishers choosing their preferred versions until a pattern stuck.Nyth63 22:57, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

That's a word-for-word quote from https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/realize-vs-realise-difference

Like it said, both forms are valid in both British and American English but each has a favoured form. So we use WP:ENGVAR which tells us that article strongly tied to the US should use favoured US forms and articles strongly tied to Britain should use British English. General Motors is very strongly tied to the US, so the form favoured by the majority of US speakers should be favoured.

Note: you can tell by my spelling of favoured that I am not American. But in this case we should be using American English.  Stepho  talk  11:32, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Asüna

Should Asüna, which I'd never heard of until five minutes ago, be in the table of former GM brands? Mr Larrington (talk) 09:44, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Because you never heard of it before is no reason to remove something from Wikipedia. Asüna was a brand used for captive imports in Canada, much like how Geo was used in the US. Even if it was short lived, I don't see why it shouldn't be included in the list. --Vossanova ^o< 14:06, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

history section is too long

It's a novel 207.162.132.74 (talk) 18:25, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

True, it is long. But GM is one of the oldest surviving brands, so that's expected. Chopping it down would be a disservice. Better to split the history section off into it's own article and leave just a 1 or 2 paragraph summary here.  Stepho  talk  23:46, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

There already is a History of General Motors article though, so we just need to move more of this into there. The "Post-reorganization" section is definitely getting out of hand. WP:NOTNEWS, this is not a place to dump a new line and reference every time a news story about General Motors is released. See also WP:PROSELINE and WP:ANNOUNCED (not policies, but they show how easily a well-written article can turn into a timeline of indiscriminate announcements with unnecessary emphasis on dates). --Vossanova ^o< 18:41, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Gm employee discount

Do I still get the employees discount even if my father who worked for gm passed away? 2600:1700:2120:BB40:89D3:1D39:FE8D:B474 (talk) 21:39, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, but that is not a suitable question for this talk page. A Wikipedia talk page are about improving the Wikipedia article. You will have to ask somewhere else.  Stepho  talk  00:35, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Engineering summary is totally missing

The article is missing any summary description of the engineering of GM products, and company initiatives to engineer their products. It is missing the role of major engineering efforts of previous decades. But it is also missing things like the commitment GM made in 2019 to design an electric vehicle platform (which they seem to call "Altium") for many EVs across their brands.

This would seem to be important because new products during major technology shifts are critical to a company continuing to exist or the company missing a societal technology shift, and potentially failing or consolidating/shrinking later on. See any Tesla article and you won't find the design, development, & engineering going on missing from an encyclopedic treatment of the company. Cheers. — 17:15, 17 April 2023 (UTC) N2e (talk) 17:15, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Sure. If you have suitable references then feel free to add such a section. If it is more than a few paragraphs long then consider creating a new article and leaving just a summary and link to it from this article.

Beware that almost all big manufacturers have promised to go all electric at some future date. Corporations are also known to change their mind at the drop of a hat. Promises are cheap and non-binding.  Stepho  talk  10:25, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Acquisition of Ford

In 1909, General Motors attempted to buy Ford but failed. Is it possible within the following years for General Motors to acquire Ford, as Durant attempted 114 years ago? General Motors would need to buy the Ford Motor Company, to be able to re-take its title as the world's largest automaker, and come close to Toyota with around 10 million produced vehicles a year. GM, would then grow from just four car brands to six or five (depending on if GMC will be discontinued and replaced by Chevrolet): Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC (the current four); Ford, Lincoln (two new brands if acquiring the FMC). 90.231.234.93 (talk) 21:44, 24 July 2023 (UTC)