In 2012, GMC and the employees at Transwest Buick GMC in Henderson,CO will celebrate the auto maker's 100th anniversary. In doing so, we take a trip down memory lane with this award winning company, and look back at some GMC milestones. 

In 1912, Rapid Motor Vehicle Co. merged with two other companies, Reliance and Randolph Motors, to create GMC. Years later, it was purchased by General Motors. 

Did you know that GMC produced motor homes during the 1970s? These vehicles were featured in films "Stripes" and "Twister." One GMC truck became a recent slogan. The HBO TV series "Eastbound and Down" featured a GMC Yukon Denali, and series star Kenny Powers loved bragging about receiving "Denali's on the reg." 

Here's some other fun tidbits about GMC - their Sierra 1500 is the brand's top-selling model, and outsold the competition in 2011 by well over 40,000 models. GMC and Denali trim levels "are among the fastest-growing nameplates in the US, with respective sales increases of 22 percent and 91 percent year over year," according to The Chicago Tribune. In fact, if GMC were a stand-alone auto maker, it would be the 10th-largest in the US.¹ 

During WWII, GMC built 584,000 military vehicles. Decades before that, from 1912 to 1917, the company produced the first electric vehicles. GMC will undoubtedly continue to create amazing, long-lasting vehicles.

Source: ¹http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/sns-gmc-celebrates-its-100th-anniversary-in-2012-20111222,0,2480223.story