General Motors Brazil started operations on the 26th of January 1925 assembling 25 CKD (Completely Knocked Down) vehicles per day, with complete kits of parts (sufficient to assemble a whole vehicle) imported from the USA, in rented premises. At the end of the 20th Century, 75 years later, GM has four large industrial complexes in Brazil producing light commercial vehicles: one in São Caetano do Sul, surroundings of São Paulo, one in São José dos Campos, between the cities of São Paulo and Rio one in Gravataí, in the Southern Region and one in Mogi das Cruzes, near the city of São Paulo.