通用用汽车公司的前身是1907年由戴维·别克创办的别克汽车公司，1908年美国最大的马车制造商威廉姆·C·杜兰特买下了别克汽车公司并成为该公司的总经理，同时推出C型车。为了推销这种汽车，杜兰特迅速建立了一个经销网络并吸引了大笔订单——远远超出了公司的生产能力。到1908年，别克汽车公司已经成为全美主要汽车生产商，杜兰特很想结束当时汽车工业数百家公司并存的局面，因而大力支持本杰明·克里斯科有关将别克、福特、马克斯韦尔—布里斯科、奥兹等几家主要汽车公司合并的建议，但协商因福特公司要价达800万美元之巨而以失败告终。同年，杜兰特以别克汽车公司和奥兹汽车公司为基础成立了一家汽车控股公司——通用汽车公司（GM），1909年又合并了另外两家汽车公司——奥克兰汽车公司和凯迪拉克汽车公司。
 

        一百年以来，通用汽车及其产品已触及全球数无数消费者的生活。经历了一百年的创新和发展，从1908年9月16日最不被看好的开始到斯隆（Alfred Sloan）著名的“不同的钱包、不同的目标、不同的车型”战略；从全球第一款量产跑车到第一款燃油效率达到每百公里3.53升燃油（80 英里每加仑）的汽车；从收购雪佛兰、欧宝、沃克斯豪这些世界著名汽车品牌到如今重点发展新型“绿色”动力推进技术，通用汽车发展的市场已远远超出公司诞生地。
 
     General automobile company, the predecessor is Buick Motors Corporation founded by David Buick 1907, 1908, America's largest manufacturer William carriage - C, Durant bought Buick Motor Company and became the general manager of the company, at the same time introduced C car. In order to promote the car, Durant quickly established a distribution network and attracted a large order - far beyond the company's production capacity. By 1908, Buick Motor Company has become the nation's major automobile manufacturers, Durant is to end when the automobile industry hundreds of companies coexist situation, and vigorously support Benjamin Krisko Buick, Ford, Maxwell, Briscoe, Ozzy and several main motor company merger advice about will, but the negotiations because the Ford asking price of $800 million is huge and failed to end. In the same year, Durant to Buick Motor Company and oz automobile company as the foundation established a car holding company -- General Motors (GM), 1909 merged with two other auto companies -- Oakland Motor Company and the Cadillac automobile company.
 

GM and its products have touched the lives of millions of consumers in the world for one hundred years. Experienced a hundred years of innovation and development, from 1908 September 16, the most promising start to the Sloan (Alfred Sloan) famous "different wallet, different goals, different models" strategy; from the world's first production car to the first fuel efficiency can reach every hundred kilometers 3.53 liters of fuel (80 miles per gallon) car; from the acquisition of Chevrolet, Opel and Vauxhall in the world famous automobile brand to now focus on the development of new "green" power propulsion technology, development of general automobile market has gone far beyond company was born.