I cannot for the life of me figure out why GM hasn't decided to drop the GMC name. There isn't a single vehicle that GMC makes that can't go out the door with a Chevrolet logo on it. Heck, back around 1980 when I was selling Chevy and GMC, we'd occasionally have a Chevy pickup come in with a GMC insignia on the side of the cab - it was an easy swap-out.
It just seems to me that GMC is a totally redundant brand. Even the heavy trucks and equipment they make could become Chevrolet with a snap of the fingers.
Can someone explain why GM wants to keep GMC around?
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OTOH, I understand that GM ran Pontiac into the ground starting in the 80's when all they could do with it was to stick more and more plastic on the sides of every car. And I hear that Buick is actually profitable overseas, whereas evidently Pontiac is not (BIG surprise).
I guess I expected this ever since Pontiac brought out the new GTO - and it looked like a Chevy Cavalier, only a bit bigger! You could easily confuse them in parking lots. It amazes me that no one at GM realized that a GTO needed to LOOK like a GTO, not like an econo-teardrop. I've never been so under-whelmed with a car. They totally blew the styling - and that blew the car.
Maybe we need GM to be run by bureaucrats - they couldn't do much worse.