GM & Allison Transmissions File For Divorce

[kscarbel2]

Reminds me of the Ford/Navistar divorce.

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[Red Horse]

On 11/1/2025 at 7:42 PM, kscarbel2 said:

Reminds me of the Ford/Navistar divorce.

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Not really...the Ford Navistar "divorce" was over real issues...were the failure issues due to Fords actions or Navistars.

This "divorce" is over what I consider the fraudulent claim that GM had an Allison transmission in their trucks when it fact it had NOTHING to do with Allison.  It in reality was a transmissioin designed/ developed in a JV between Ford and Allison with certain differences between some models.  In fact some components have the same part numbers.

I'm so old that I go back to the early days of Allisons in class 8 trucks and I formed the opinion they should have been installed with Velcro fasteners to shorten replacement times😀...Not the case today, If I were buying a class 8 and did not want an /eaton manual, I would chose an Allison.

I have to believe GM paid Allison a nice royalty fee to use their name.  I can't tell you how many times I have heard some guy explaining his truck was better than a Ford Super because..."it has an Allison-just like the big trucks"!

Interesting that FLT-forgot his name- in  his somber announcement made no mention the transmission in fact was NOT an Allison but rather did a lot of tap dancing around the issue and never once mentioned the transmissions roots!