History of General Motors Departure (bearings); Delco Electronics and ACDelco (electrical and electronic components); GMAC (finance); General Aviation and North American Aviation (airplanes); GM Defense (military vehicles) and Electronic Data Systems (information technology). General Motors was capitalized by William C. Durant on September 16, 1908 as a holding company. The next day it purchased Buick Motor Company, and rapidly acquired more than twenty companies including Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Oakland, now known as Pontiac, and McLaughlin of Canada. Dr. Campbell, Durant's son-in-law, put 1,000,000 shares on the stock market in Chicago Buick (then controlled by Durant). Durant's earlier company, the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, had been in
General Motors Ultralite fictional SAPD (San Angeles Police Department). They also appeared in the second episode of the second season of "seaQuest DSV", and in the 1999 movie "Bicentennial Man". General Motors Ultralite The General Motors Ultralite was a 1992 low emission vehicle concept car intended to demonstrate the benefits of advanced materials and low fuel consumption. The goal was to make a four-passenger show car capable of . It was rated at by the EPA, but could achieve at a steady state cruising speed of 50 mph. The carbon fiber shell was fabricated by Scaled Composites and it weighed only 420 pounds