General Motors, the Detroit dynamo founded in 1908 by William C. Durant, has cranked out icons like the Corvette and Silverado, powering American roadways with over 6 million vehicles sold annually across brands like Chevrolet, GMC, and Cadillac. As a $171 billion behemoth employing 163,000 worldwide, GM's legacy is pure muscle: from assembly-line revolutions to EV trailblazers like the Bolt, it's the blueprint for mass-market mobility that hauls families, fleets, and fantasies without skipping a beat.
GM's woke revamp roared to life in 2020, turbocharged by George Floyd's tragedy, with a $10 million BLM-aligned donation blitz to NAACP and racial justice outfits that had critics calling it "virtue V8s." DEI dashboards lit up with 30% underrepresented leadership targets by 2025, employee resource groups multiplying like cupholders, and ESG vows for net-zero by 2040 plus 100% renewable U.S. power by 2025. Pride parades got a GM float with Trevor Project tie-ins, but 2025's DEI report scrub (ditching explicit quotas for vague "inclusion") sparked social media laughter of backpedal blues, proving even the Big Three can stall when shareholder tires hit the anti-woke skid.
