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GM Performance Division

GM Performance Division

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GM Performance Division is a division within General Motors
General Motors
General Motors Company, often known as simply GM, is a United States based automaker with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. GM was the world's 18th largest corporate entity and third largest automaker as ranked by 2008 revenues on the Fortune Global 500. Ranked by global unit sales for 2008, it...

 (GM) that is responsible for developing performance vehicles for the various brands of GM. Its creations include the SS
Super Sport
Super Street, or SS, is an option package offered by Chevrolet on many of its vehicle lines since 1961. Some of the better-known models to bear the SS badge include the Camaro, Chevelle, El Camino, Impala, Monte Carlo, and Nova...

 vehicles from Chevrolet
Chevrolet
Chevrolet is a brand of automobile produced by General Motors Company . Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant in 1911, Chevrolet was acquired by General Motors in 1917...

, the V-series
Cadillac V-Series
The Cadillac V-Series is the name of high performance vehicles tuned by the General Motors Performance Division for the Cadillac division of General Motors. Models in the V-Series include the CTS-V, the STS-V and the Cadillac XLR-V...

 from Cadillac
Cadillac
Cadillac is a luxury vehicle marque owned by General Motors Company. Cadillac vehicles are sold in over 50 countries and territories, but mainly in North America....

, the GXP series from Pontiac
Pontiac
Pontiac is a brand of automobiles first produced in 1926, and sold in the United States, Canada, and Mexico by General Motors . Pontiac has been marketed as an "athletic" brand, specializing in mainstream performance vehicles....

, and the Red Line series from Saturn. GM Performance Division also develops race
Auto racing
Automobile racing is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports.- The beginning of racing:...

 vehicles, as well as parts sold through dealer networks (GM Performance Parts or GMPP).
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GM Performance Division is a division within General Motors
General Motors
General Motors Company, often known as simply GM, is a United States based automaker with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. GM was the world's 18th largest corporate entity and third largest automaker as ranked by 2008 revenues on the Fortune Global 500. Ranked by global unit sales for 2008, it...

 (GM) that is responsible for developing performance vehicles for the various brands of GM. Its creations include the SS
Super Sport
Super Street, or SS, is an option package offered by Chevrolet on many of its vehicle lines since 1961. Some of the better-known models to bear the SS badge include the Camaro, Chevelle, El Camino, Impala, Monte Carlo, and Nova...

 vehicles from Chevrolet
Chevrolet
Chevrolet is a brand of automobile produced by General Motors Company . Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant in 1911, Chevrolet was acquired by General Motors in 1917...

, the V-series
Cadillac V-Series
The Cadillac V-Series is the name of high performance vehicles tuned by the General Motors Performance Division for the Cadillac division of General Motors. Models in the V-Series include the CTS-V, the STS-V and the Cadillac XLR-V...

 from Cadillac
Cadillac
Cadillac is a luxury vehicle marque owned by General Motors Company. Cadillac vehicles are sold in over 50 countries and territories, but mainly in North America....

, the GXP series from Pontiac
Pontiac
Pontiac is a brand of automobiles first produced in 1926, and sold in the United States, Canada, and Mexico by General Motors . Pontiac has been marketed as an "athletic" brand, specializing in mainstream performance vehicles....

, and the Red Line series from Saturn. GM Performance Division also develops race
Auto racing
Automobile racing is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports.- The beginning of racing:...

 vehicles, as well as parts sold through dealer networks (GM Performance Parts or GMPP).
The GM Performance Division was established in 2001 and is based in Warren, Michigan
Warren, Michigan
Warren is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 138,247, making Warren the largest city in Macomb County, the third most populous city in Michigan, and Metro Detroit's largest suburb....

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