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1923: The General Motors Proving Grounds
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While the compact pickup truck segment exploded in popularity during the late 1970s, the American automakers were initially MIA. GMC got with the program in the early '80s with its S-15 pickup, which quickly found itself in the thick of the action. Eventually renamed the GMC Sonoma, this truck was affordable, versatile and a lot easier on gas and in tight parking situations than a full-size pickup
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The GMC name turns 100 years old in 2012. In 1912, Rapid Motor Vehicle Company was merged with two others Reliance and Randolph to become GMC.
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Although Chevrolet had produced a pickup truck since 1918, the use of the C/K nomenclature as the truck's name didn't begin until 1962
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The Silverado name was taken from a trim level previously used on its predecessor, the Chevrolet C/K pickup truck from 1975 through 1998. General Motors continues to offer a GMC-badged variant of the Chevrolet full-size pickup under the GMC Sierra name, first used in 1988 for its variant of the GMT400 platform trucks. General Motors manufactured 5,990 units with manual transmissions d
