Well it was Chrysler last month and now as many people expected, GM has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
GM has officially filed for bankruptcy in a New York court citing $82 billion in assets, but an astounding $172 billion in debts. Although GM for most of its 100-year history has managed to hold the title as the world’s largest automaker, the automaker has seen its sales drop almost 50 percent this year.
“Today marks a new beginning for General Motors,” GM Chairman Kent Kresa said in a statement this morning. “A court-supervised process and transfer of assets will enable a New GM to emerge as a stronger, healthier, more focused and nimbler company with a determination not to just survive but to excel.”
The process will see GM divided into two groups, good assets and bad assets. The good assets will become part of the new “leaner” GM and the bad assets will be liquidated. To aid in the process the U.S. treasury is going to provide an additional $30 billion to finance GM during the bankruptcy, which brings the total to almost $50 billion.
Full Story: Detroit Free Press
