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Chrysler filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 1, 2009 [94] followed by General Motors a month later. [95] On June 2, General Motors announced the sale of the Hummer brand of off-road vehicles to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd., a machinery company in western China, a deal which later fell through.
On November 19, 2008, there was a United States Senate hearing on the automotive crisis in the presence of the heads of Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. The auto manufacturers explained that they would need financial aid of $25 billion if they were to avoid bankruptcy. The Senate was divided on the issue.
General Motors was financially vulnerable before the automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010. In 2005, the company posted a loss of US$10.6 billion (~$15.9 billion in 2023). [ 17 ] In 2006, its attempts to obtain U.S. government financing to support its pension liabilities and also to form commercial alliances with Nissan and Renault failed.
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General Motors Number of jobs cut since recession began: 107,357 The entire auto industry felt the pain of the recession -- U.S. car sales dropped from an average 16 million a year in 2005 to 11 ...
General Motors Company (GM) [2] is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. [3] The company is most known for owning and manufacturing four automobile brands: Chevrolet , Buick , GMC , and Cadillac , each a separate division of GM.
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General Motors disputed its conclusion, and stood by their original figure of 13 deaths after the report was released as of June 3, 2014. [18] By the end of September, Reuters stated in an article that 153 deaths were linked to the faulty ignition switch. [ 19 ]