The GM-Ford 6-speed automatic transmission is one of the GM (General Motors) entries the open record knows by name and by date — in 2006, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable.
How it came about
The GM–Ford 6-speed automatic transmission is an automatic transaxle originally designed for transverse engine applications in cars. With design work having begun in 2002, GM and Ford jointly committed to investing US$ 720 million in their manufacturing plants to support the new transmission. Each company has named and manufactured the transmission separately.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in GM (General Motors)'s history is not in doubt: the GM 4T 60-E • 4T 65-E / GM 4T 80-E / Ford AX 4N family came before it; the GM 9T family / Ford 8F family followed it. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Audi R8, the Nissan Qashqai, the Audi Q7. Its GM (General Motors) stablemates include the 1955 Chevrolet and the 1957 Chevrolet.