-----Original Message-----
From: Landers, Amanda <alanders@tmgstrategies.com>
To: swiftwood@aol.com
Sent: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 4:49 pm
Subject: General Motors Info. for Bay State Corvette Club

Hello Brian,
I work with the General Motors' communications team. We’ve been helping them keep people informed about their progress to restructure the business and I’m reaching out to see if you think members of the Bay State Corvette Club would like to receive this type of information.

On a regular basis, we’d send you periodic updates and headlines about GM's progress, including restructuring and other background information that would help you contribute to the public dialogue on these issues. There are a number of organizations like yours who might have reason to be interested in seeing a stronger, reinvented General Motors. Please let me know if you’d like me to stay in touch with you.

Thank you,
Amanda Landers
alanders@tmgstrategies.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: Landers, Amanda <alanders@tmgstrategies.com>
To: swiftwood@aol.com
Sent: Fri, 8 May 2009 5:14 pm
Subject: RE: General Motors Info. for Bay State Corvette Club

Hi Brian -- Just wanted to let you know that several people responded to the post to your forum and are on my list now to receive my notes too. Thanks for spreading the word and glad you're interested in receiving information. Just curious, about how many members are in your club?

Best regards,
Amanda

-----Original Message-----
From: Landers, Amanda <alanders@tmgstrategies.com>
Sent: Fri, 8 May 2009 5:04 pm
Subject: GM Information

Hello --

Thank you again for your interest in receiving periodic updates and headlines about GM's progress and some of the latest news around its restructuring. Immediately below, I included a recap of GM's viability plan for your background. Below that are a few news clips that came out this week and farther below I included notable quotes.

I'm sending you all of this information to give you a well-rounded sample of various topics, knowing that some of it you will find useful and some not. I'm assuming the more the better so you can choose.

Have a fantastic weekend,
Amanda

Plan for Success and Global Competitiveness
“The actions we’re announcing… position us for sustainable success by establishing stronger brands, fewer nameplates, and a world-class dealer network. They will also allow us to significantly increase our North American structural-cost reduction and dramatically reduce our U.S. breakeven volume, enabling the company to be profitable at today’s very low industry-sales volumes.” – GM CEO Fritz Henderson, GM FastLane Blog, 4/27/09, http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/

o GM’s viability plan calls for considerable sacrifice from all stakeholders – bondholders, shareholders, dealers, suppliers, employees, and retirees.
o GM anticipates reducing its U.S. dealer count by 42% by 2010 to 3,605 dealers.
o GM has reduced its U.S. workforce from 191,000 in 2000 to 97,000 in 2008. And since 2005, GM has reduced structural costs in North America by $9 billion.
o GM intends to fully repay loans back to the taxpayers. In less than two years, GM predicts it will become fully profitable.
o GM is working closely with the federal government and meeting stringent milestones to demonstrate that restructuring and long-term planning are moving forward and on pace.
o The auto industry has tremendous potential for growth worldwide given that only 12% of the world’s population drives vehicles today. – Brian Olson, CFO for Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Nordic Green ’08 Conference, 4/29/08, www.siliconvalley.um.dk/en/ser ... rWindsNewDancePartner.htm


NEWS STORIES

GM April China Sales Surge 50% on Minivans, Subsidies
Bloomberg , by Eugene Tang, 5/4/09
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pi ... sarchive&sid=au3qthk3SiA0
“General Motors Corp., the biggest overseas automaker in China, boosted sales in the country 50 percent last month as government stimulus measures spurred demand for minivans.”

2010 Chevrolet Equinox Exceeds Expectations with an EPA Estimated 32 MPG
Automobile Magazine , by Tom Ludwick, 5/5/09
http://rumors.automobilemag.com/65095 ... timated-32-mpg/index.html

“When Chevrolet introduced the 2010 Equinox, it estimated that the crossover would receive a best-in-class 30 mpg EPA freeway rating. However, based on GM's testing the front-wheel-drive 2010 Equinox with the 2.4-liter I-4 is now expected to exceed expectations with a 32 mpg EPA highway rating.”

GM Loss Widens to $5.98 Billion as Bankruptcy Deadline Nears
Bloomberg , by Jeff Green and Katie Merx, 5/7/09
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pi ... d=aKKUo50jE8O8&refer=home
“General Motors Corp. said its first- quarter net loss widened to $5.98 billion as sales plunged by almost half, ratcheting up the prospect of a bankruptcy filing by a U.S.-imposed June 1 deadline.”

Myths and Facts about Cars and Carmakers
The Washington Post , Letters to the Editor, 5/5/09
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ ... 5/04/AR2009050403253.html
“It's truly unfortunate that just as these companies turn the corner, they face an economic downturn that is crushing even mighty Toyota. My fear is that by the time Congress, the media and the public wake up to the fact that Ford and GM are making many, many excellent vehicles, it will be too late.”

NEWS QUOTES

James R. Healey, USA Today, 5/1/09, “Drivers Could Get a Charge Out of Chevrolet Volt”
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/r ... let-volt-early-look_N.htm
…[F]olks who buy or lease the Chevrolet Volt electric car — scheduled to go on sale in November 2010 — should be surprised and pleased. If the so-called Volt mules that General Motors provided for a few miles of driving around the GM Tech Center campus here Tuesday were representative, Volt owners will be treated to remarkably punchy performance from the electric drivetrain and a level of quiet refinement that appears to lead the industry.

William Holstein, Author of “Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon,” FOX News, 5/3/09
General Motors is in an entirely different condition than Chrysler, [as GM is] a viable automaker. They have a complete portfolio of new products, not just gas-guzzling SUVs as you read in the New York Times all the time. And they have a viable management team and they've got a plan in place, so in that case, the government ought to let them execute on their plan and continue to lend, until they get through this economic crisis, but stay out of the way.

Lyle J. Dennis, Founder of GM-Volt.com, Washington Post, 5/7/09, “The Real Value of the Volt”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ ... 5/06/AR2009050603759.html
While the wealthy and the government may have to subsidize first-generation Volts, electric car prices will drop substantially with increasing production volume as economies of scale come into play. In my opinion and that of thousands of others, the Volt is the best idea GM has ever had.

Phillip Reed, Edmunds.com, USA Today, 5/1/09, “What Does Chrysler’s Filing Mean for GM, Suppliers?”
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2 ... chrysler-bankruptcy_N.htm
No one can blame car buyers who shied away from brands that were mentioned in the same breath as the word “bankruptcy.” Now that their warranties are being guaranteed…GM vehicles are good deals which are worth considering.

Tom Stephens, GM VP for Global Product Development, GM FastLane Blog, 5/5/09, “Plug-in hybrid technology will be applied to one of GM’s four core brands”

http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/archives/ ... 99s_four_core_brands.html

We’re making a lot of difficult yet necessary decisions these days to ensure GM’s long-term future[.] … I can assure you our commitment to hybrid, plug-in hybrid and advanced battery technology is a key element of GM’s reinvention. …I’m pleased to let you know the plug-in hybrid technology will be applied to one of GM’s four core brands. …Even better news, the introduction of this technology will not be delayed. We are still planning initial delivery, of the plug-in hybrid vehicles, which use a modified version of the GM Two-mode Hybrid system, in 2011 to the DOE and EPRI for use in fleets. The Volt and plug-in hybrid vehicle are two of 14 hybrid and electric vehicles GM plans to offer by 2012.

-----Original Message-----
From: Landers, Amanda <alanders@tmgstrategies.com>
Sent: Tue, 19 May 2009 4:44 pm
Subject: GM Info

Good afternoon --

The big auto news out today was the Obama Administration's announcement of new mileage and pollution standards. Included below is a Wall Street Journal blog write-up on GM CEO Fritz Henderson's interview with CNBC this a.m. and also some news clips on the announcement.

In light of today's news, I thought you may like to know what GM has been doing already. As part of its efforts to reinvent the automobile, the company has put an emphasis on further improving safety, increasing fuel efficiency and reducing America‘s dependency on foreign oil, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

o GM offers 20 models that obtain 30 mpg or more in highway driving, more than any other automaker.
o By mid-2009, GM will have 9 hybrid vehicles in the market…more than any other automaker
o About 65 percent of GM vehicles sold in the U.S. will be capable of running on alternative fuels in 2014 – up from 17% in 2008

Have a great week,
Amanda

GM CEO Says Fuel-Economy Goals Can Be Met
May 19, 2009, 8:09 AM ET
By WSJ Staff
General Motors can meet the U.S. government’s newly accelerated timetable for improving vehicles’ fuel efficiency, Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said Tuesday.

GM, he told CNBC in an interview, is “supportive of” new rules introduced Monday by President Barack Obama’s administration to raise cars’ mileage to an average of 39 miles per gallon and trucks’ mileage to 30 mpg by 2016 - four years earlier than current federal law requires.

As he and other GM executives have said many times regarding the auto maker’s restructuring prospects, Henderson repeated that staying out of court is preferable but said that the company is prepared to reorganize under Chapter 11 if necessary.

He acknowledged the “tough threshold” of having to reach by June 1 an accord with investors to exchange at least 90% of the company’s debt as demanded by the U.S. Treasury Department for GM to avoid bankruptcy

He acknowledged that reaching an accord with investors to exchange 90% of the company’s debt by June 1, as demanded by the U.S. Treasury Department to avoid bankruptcy, was a “tough threshold.” Asked about the likelihood he’d continue at GM’s helm after a restructuring,
Henderson said, “I don’t worry too much about my own job.” He was promoted in early April from chief operating officer at the urging of the Obama administration’s auto task force.

http://blogs.wsj.com/autoshow/2009/05 ... can-be-met/?mod=wsjcrmain

Details on New Regulation Standards
“By 2016…new passenger cars sold in the U.S. will have to meet an average mileage requirement of 39 mpg, up from 27.5 mpg currently. Light trucks would have to deliver an average of 30 mpg, compared with about 23 mpg today….The move…would accelerate the largest government-mandated transformation of vehicles on the American road since the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the first federal fuel-economy standards took effect[.]” – The Wall Street Journal, 5/19/09, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12426 ... ml#mod=todays_us_page_one

“The Transportation Department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would set the new fuel-economy standards, which would raise the average fuel efficiency of a new car by 30 percent.” – The Los Angeles Times, 5/19/09, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwor ... -na-emissions19-2009may19,0,1578831,print.story


“The new regulations will mark the first time that the government will set rules on automobile emissions and combine them with fuel-economy standards.” – Slate.com, 5/19/09, http://www.slate.com/id/2218647/

GM & CAFE

“General Motors commends President Obama's leadership to establish a harmonized National Program to improve vehicle fuel economy and lower greenhouse gas emissions.” – GM President and CEO Fritz Henderson, 5/18/09, http://media.gm.com/servlet/GatewaySe ... l.do?domain=2&docid=54400

“GM and the auto industry benefit by having more consistency and certainty to guide our product plans.” – GM President and CEO Fritz Henderson, 5/18/09, http://media.gm.com/servlet/GatewaySe ... l.do?domain=2&docid=54400

“Although meeting these standards will be costly, those companies with electric car programs could be at a significant advantage. After all the Chevy Volt is likely to get an official EPA efficiency rating significantly greater than 100 mpg, although the exact rating methods and how they may affect the CAFE are still being worked out.” – Lyle Dennis, 5/18/09, http://gm-volt.com/category/efficiency/

“Assuming the reductions come to pass, a trip to a dealership in 2016 might prove remarkably different than one today. Rows of SUVs and full-sized luxury cars could be replaced by highly efficient compact sedans powered by hybrid drive trains, small SUVs running on clean diesel motors and possibly electric cars that emit no greenhouse gases.” – The Los Angeles Times, 5/19/09, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwor ... -na-emissions19-2009may19,0,1578831,print.story

BrianCunningham wrote:
I got this email today

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-----Original Message-----
From: Landers, Amanda <alanders@tmgstrategies.com>
To: swiftwood@aol.com
Sent: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 4:49 pm
Subject: General Motors Info. for Bay State Corvette Club

Hello Brian,
I work with the General Motors' communications team. We’ve been helping them keep people informed about their progress to restructure the business and I’m reaching out to see if you think members of the Bay State Corvette Club would like to receive this type of information.

On a regular basis, we’d send you periodic updates and headlines about GM's progress, including restructuring and other background information that would help you contribute to the public dialogue on these issues. There are a number of organizations like yours who might have reason to be interested in seeing a stronger, reinvented General Motors. Please let me know if you’d like me to stay in touch with you.

Thank you,
Amanda Landers
alanders@tmgstrategies.com

GM's interested in us.

CSS996 wrote:
Next up, a short film about GM's restructuring, by Leni Riefenstahl!

-----Original Message-----
From: Amanda Landers <amanda.landers@tmgstrategies.com>
Sent: Fri, 29 May 2009 4:23 pm
Subject: GM Information-5/29

Hello and happy Friday --

As you likely know, the deadline imposed by the White House for GM to restructure is Monday, June 1, so I'll keep in touch with any GM issued news early next week.

Far below are news and quotes from this week, but also I included immediately below a press release just issued today by GM, followed by a Wall Street Journal story on it.

Have a great weekend,
Amanda

FOR RELEASE: 2009-05-29


GM Announces Plans to Build Small Car in U.S.
* GM to utilize and retool idled assembly and stamping facility for future production.
* Additional production will help the company deliver outstanding new vehicles to the compact and small car markets and meet future fuel efficiency regulations.

DETROIT, Mich. -- General Motors Corporation (NYSE:GM) announced today it plans to build a future small car in the United States utilizing an idled UAW-GM facility. This vehicle adds to GM's growing portfolio of U.S.-built, highly fuel efficient cars including the Chevrolet Cruze and Volt.

"Small cars represent one of the fastest growing segments in both the U.S. and around the world," said Fritz Henderson, General Motors President and CEO. "We believe this car will be a winner with our current and future customers in the U.S."

The re-tooled plant will be capable of building 160,000 cars annually, which can be a combination of both small and compact vehicles. Selection of the site will be determined in the future.

"I would like to personally thank the UAW for agreeing to work with us to ensure our overall manufacturing competitiveness in the United States," said Henderson. "This vehicle segment, while important today and expected to be more so in the future, is extremely challenging. It takes a special effort by everyone to bring a domestically produced small car to market in a cost-competitive and profitable way - but that is what we are going to do together."

GM already has a strong manufacturing presence in the United States. Currently, about 67 percent of GM cars and trucks sold in the U.S. are built in the U.S. With this announcement, GM anticipates that U.S. production levels will increase beyond 70 percent by 2013, augmenting its already automotive industry-leading U.S. manufacturing footprint.
# # #

GM Plans to Build Small Car at an Idled US Plant
Wall Street Journal, by Sharon Terlep, 5/29/09
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090529-708666.html
"General Motors Corp. (GM), days from an expected bankruptcy filing, will spend $600 million to $700 million to produce what would be the only U.S.-built subcompact car, people familiar with the plan said Friday."

GM News Quotes:
Barack Obama, U.S. President, 5/22/09, C-SPAN
Ultimately, I think that GM is going to be a strong company. And we're going to be pulling out as soon as the economy recovers and they've completed their restructuring[.] We will see both GM…emerg[ing] from this restructuring process, leaner, meaner, more competitive with a set of product lines that appeal to consumers: good cars that are fuel efficient and that look at the markets of tomorrow.

Ronald Hwang, Natural Resources Defense Council, 5/19/09, CNBC’s “Kudlow Report”
I believe they can compete. If you're looking at the products that General Motors is starting to deliver, what Ford are starting to deliver to the marketplace, you are seeing a dramatically different industry and that is -- that's driven by market, competitive issues, it is also driven by the expectations of new standards. The American workers and the American autoworkers and American companies and American engineers they can compete with any auto company in the world.

Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 5/28/09, “Lutz Optimistic About ‘Smaller, Leaner’ G.M.”
http://www.freep.com/article/20090528/BUSINESS01/905290329
The new GM will be smaller, leaner, very profitable and with an outstanding product line, [G.M. Vice Chairman Bob] Lutz
told the Automotive Press Association in Detroit on Thursday. Lutz heaped praise on the presidential automotive task
force, calling this ‘the first time in history the auto industry has had the ear’ of the president. …Lutz said GM's recovery
plan rests on leadership in advanced technologies and fuel economy, a newly competitive cost structure and debt load,
and ‘undisputed product excellence.’

Phil LeBeau, CNBC Auto Industry Reporter, 5/28/09, NBC’s “NBC Nightly News”
This certainly should clear the path for General Motors to have a quicker, smoother bankruptcy, and the reason that's important is because the less time General Motors spends in bankruptcy, the less questions or the fewer questions that are raised with consumers as they drive by dealerships. [Consumers] will have more confidence if GM gets out of bankruptcy sooner, and that's what they're hoping at the Treasury Department, a bankruptcy as quick as what we're seeing with Chrysler.

Linda Sandler, Jeff Green, & Mike Ramsey, Bloomberg, 5/29/09, “GM Bankruptcy to Be a Tale of Best of Assets, Worst of Assets”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pi ... d=azwLDwPkZ4ck&refer=home
…[A] new entity will emerge within three months with prized assets and a plan to revisit the best of times when GM was the world’s largest carmaker. …[T]he new company, armed with vehicles from GM’s Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick and GMC divisions, plans to begin making money again within 60 to 90 days, while a bankruptcy court sells or liquidates unprofitable brands[.] …In creating the [new] company, the U.S. plans to speed GM’s progress by turning more than $50 billion of loans into a 72.5 percent equity stake for the government, slashing company debt to about $17 billion, excluding financing obligations to suppliers and warranty programs, according to a regulatory filing yesterday.

Fang Yan and Edmund Klamann, Reuters.com, 5/28/09, “In China, troubled GM enjoys small-car boom”
http://www.reuters.com/article/reuter ... TRE54R1MI20090528?sp=true
A popular small-car lineup. Booming sales growth. A promising future. General Motors is not often described in such
terms in the media these days, but in China at least, they all hold true for the No. 1 U.S. automaker.

GM News & Social Media Brief:
GM Bankruptcy to Be a Tale of Best of Assets, Worst of Assets
Bloomberg, by Linda Sandler, Jeff Green & Mike Ramsey, 5/29/09
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pi ... d=azwLDwPkZ4ck&refer=home
“‘They are clearly trying to clear a path for a very quick Chrysler-style case,’ said Stephen Lubben, a bankruptcy-law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey. ‘They will use the bankruptcy code to separate “good GM” from “bad GM.”’”

What will a new GM look like?
Detroit Free Press, by Tim Higgins & Justin Hyde, 5/29/09
http://www.freep.com/article/20090529 ... +will+a+new+GM+look+like?
“On Thursday, GM unveiled a proposal aimed at winning debt holders' support for its plan to create a new GM in bankruptcy out of its best parts and giving the first glimpse of what the new company could look like.”

G.M. Reaches a Deal With Bondholder Committee
The New York Times DealBook,edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin, 5/28/09
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/200 ... ith-bondholder-committee/
“General Motors said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that it has proposed a new deal to a committee representing many of its largest bondholders, offering an equity stake of as much as 25 percent in the restructured automaker if bondholders don’t oppose G.M.’s reorganization plan.”

GM issues paychecks early amid bankruptcy fears
Reuters, reporting by Kevin Krolicki; editing by Richard Chang, 5/28/09
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE54R0DN20090528
“General Motors Corp paid about 90,000 U.S. employees three days early this week in an effort to reassure them that their wage payments would not be affected by any bankruptcy filing, a spokesman said.”

Cabinet Secretaries, Obama Administration Officials to Travel Across Midwest, Discuss Federal Recovery Efforts for Auto Communities and Workers
The White House Office of the Press Secretary, Released 5/28/09
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_o ... -Communities-and-Workers/
“Next week, from Tuesday, June 2 to Friday, June 5, members of the United States Cabinet and Obama administration officials will travel across the Midwest to visit auto communities and discuss federal recovery efforts for auto communities and workers.”