GM Production 2008

GM understandably had a sales slump in 2008, as it swaggered from one crisis to another. Therefore, for car/LCV sales, 2007 production of 9.2 million slid down to 8.15m for 2008. That's a worldwide market share drop from 13.3% to 12.3%, in production terms. GM has been moving production away from mature markets to emerging ones, which is cost effective. US plants now makes 28.6% of cars/LCVs,