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...task is expected to be formidable. Part of the job of the chief restructuring officer will be to dispose of real estate such as closed factories. GM assembly plants in Pontiac, Mich. and Wilmington, Del., as well as power-train plants in Livonia, Flint and Ypsilanti Township, Mich., Parma, Ohio, and Fredericksburg, Va., were just added to the list. The automaker also is shutting underutilized stamping plants in Indianapolis and Mansfield, Ohio; and closing warehouses in Boston, Jacksonville, Fla., and Columbus, Ohio, all by the end of this year. Workers at all nine plants and the three warehouses were told...
...TIME's photographic history of Pontiac...
...deal being cobbled, GM's stockholders will be wiped out, replaced as equity owners by the Treasury Department, with 70%, and the United Auto Workers (UAW), with 17.5%. GM's business in Europe, Opel, will be sold. As many as 14 U.S. factories are marked to close. The iconic Pontiac brand is probably finished. Under a new labor agreement with the UAW, GM's hourly domestic workforce, which numbered 600,000 at its peak, will drop to 40,000. In other words, 14 of every 15 GM jobs have vanished in roughly a generation. And the ripples: dealers losing franchises...
...company put Saab, Opel, Saturn and Hummer up for sale, then killed Pontiac. (Marchionne promptly entered fire-sale bids for Opel and Saab.) As the expected bankruptcy filing approached, plans were under way for a complicated stock deal that would render existing shares essentially worthless. Secured bondholders were being offered full payment in new company stock, while others were being told to expect far less...
...looked like scare tactics aimed at exacting concessions elsewhere from the teams. "Formula One is Ferrari, and Ferrari is Formula One," Bernie Ecclestone, the sport's commercial-rights holder, said in response to the Italians' ultimatum. "That is not going to change." (See a brief pictorial history of the Pontiac...