General Motors Corporation Publication: Federal Register Agency: Federal Trade Commission Byline: Donald S. Clark Date: 4 August 1995 Subject: American Government Topic: General Motors

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 150 (Friday, August 4, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39958-39959]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-19238]



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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Docket No. C-2966]


General Motors Corporation

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Notice of period for public comment on petition to modify 
consent order.

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SUMMARY: General Motors Corporation (``GM''), the respondent in Docket 
No. C-2966, is subject to an order that 

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prohibits it from displaying the name of any GM car division on any 
engine or visible attachment to the engine unless that engine is 
manufactured by that division. GM filed a petition on July 7, 1995, 
requesting the Commission to reopen and modify the order to allow GM to 
display a passenger car's nameplate on the engine or visible attachment 
to the engine if the engine is materially different from other engines 
in GM cars under other nameplates. This document announces the public 
comment period on this petition.

DATES: The deadline for filing comments in this matter is August 25, 
1995.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to the Office of the Secretary, 
Federal Trade Commission, 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20580. Requests for copies of the petition should be 
sent to the Public Reference Branch, Room 130.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas D. Massie, Attorney, Division of Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer 
Protection, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C. 20580, (202) 
326-2982.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The order in Docket No. C-2966 was issued on 
May 18, 1979, and reported at 93 F.T.C. 860. GM argues that changed 
conditions of fact require modifying the order. In 1979, GM passenger 
car divisions manufactured engines. Passenger car divisions ceased 
manufacturing engines in 1984. Through a series of organizational 
changes, the manufacture of passenger car engines is now under the 
Power Train Group. The Power Train Group produces engines and 
transmissions for all GM passenger cars except Saturn. As a 
consequence, the order provision prohibiting the placement of a car 
divisions's name on the engine unless it was manufactured by that 
division has prevented GM from placing the name of car division, such 
as Cadillac, on the engine of any passenger car produced by GM. GM 
seeks to place the nameplate of a passenger car on the engine only if 
it is unique to that nameplate because of material differences such as 
horsepower or displacement from similar engines used in different 
nameplates.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-19238 Filed 8-3-95; 8:45 am]
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