GMC – Car Logos

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GMC is one of the divisions of General Motors Company. First known as Rapid Motor Vehicle Company, a manufacturer of earliest commercial trucks and founded by Max Grabowsky on 1901. It was purchased by General Motors in 1909 to create a new line of vehicles for the General Motors Truck Company. Thus, the “GMC Truck” brand name was born. It was merged with Reliance Motor Company in 1911 and first appeared in its new brand name during the New York International Auto Show.

GMC logo is presented by initials of its parent company, the “GMC” or the General Motors Company. It is one of the simplest car logos known globally. Despite its simplicity, it holds high-capacity special cars and heavy-duty trucks. It is a part of the history that any car logos. It was known for its simple but tough company identification among the car logos.

GMC participated in history after it produced 600,000 trucks for U.S. Military troops during the Second World War. In the late 1970’s and 1980’s, it never ceased to manufacture fire trucks, ambulances, heavy-duty trucks, military vehicles, motor homes, and transit buses—a period after the war.

Currently, GMC is a manufacturer of trucks, vans, military vehicles, pick ups and SUVs marketed in North America and the Middle East. It is often mistaken to be a clone of its sister division Chevrolet but are different in specifications.

In January 2007, GMC was recognized as GM’s second-largest-selling North American vehicle division after Chevrolet.