While most of yesterday's attention was rightly focused on the industry-wide year-end U.S. sales bloodbath, Shanghai Daily reports that 2008 was a bummer for GM's joint venture with SAIC in China.

China remains a crucial market for GM, ranking second only to its U.S. operations. The automaker partners with SAIC Motor Corp. in a 50-50 joint venture in China called Shanghai General Motors ...

The current generation, the Buick GL8 Century, is produced at the SAIC-GM Jinquiao plant in Shanghai. The GM Shenyang facility opened in 1992 as Jinbei GM Automotive, a 30/70 joint venture between ...

It is the fourth global concept vehicle jointly developed by GM's Shanghai GM and Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) joint ventures in Shanghai. "The new Riviera offers a preview of ...