The most obscure cars ever made by General Motors
Founded in 1908, for decades General Motors was the world's biggest car maker with factories around the world.
Many of these churned out unique products for the local market. With divisions in South America, Africa and Asia as well as Europe, Australia and the US, these are just some of the GM obscurities that have probably passed you by – and a number were sold in North America. And yes you’re right – this GM-built car pictured here does wear aThe Acadian brand was created to allow GM to sell cars in Canada without incurring heavy tariffs. The Acadian Beaumont is one example.
LaSalles are rare now, partly because its cars appealed to a relatively small number of customers and partly because production lasted for only 13 years before being canceled in 1940.'s lower-priced companion make in 1929. The six models seemed promising, but a combination of the stock market crash and Buick's decision to introduce an entry-level car of its own brought production to a halt after just one year. In that time, over 38,000 were built, around one-tenth of them in Canada.
The Vauxhall badge above the front grille suggested it should be a Cresta, but it had the more downmarket interior upholstery of the Velox, perhaps because this would be cheaper to repair in the event of an attack by corgis.The Vauxhall Firenza-based Droop Snoot, built between 1973 and 1975, is reasonably well known. The plan was to build at least 1000 each year, but the total ran to just, which left Vauxhall with a lot of unwanted glassfiber nose cones.
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