Overview In 10 Images: Mahindra XUV 3XO Mid-Spec MX3 Variant
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1908 - GM founded in Flint, Michigan.
1919 - GM creates captive finance arm, GMAC.
1929 - GM buys 80 percent stake in European Adam Opel.
1937 - After a bitter strike, GM recognizes the United Auto Workers (UAW) as the bargaining representative for its hourly workers.
1971 - GM buys 34.2 percent of Isuzu Motors. GM raises stake to 49 percent in 1998 and later sells it.
1981 - GM buys about 5 percent of Suzuki. It raises the stake to 20 percent in 2000, and later sells all but 3 percent.
1981 - GM and Toyota form a joint venture, known as NUMMI, to build cars in Fremont, California.
1986 - GM acquires sports car maker Lotus. It sold Lotus in 1993.
1990 - GM buys a 50-percent stake in Sweden's Saab and purchases the remaining half a decade later.
1990 - GM launches Saturn.
1998 - A 56-day strike at GM's Flint stamping operations shuts all of GM's North American assembly plants.
1999 - GM buys 20 percent of Subaru-maker Fuji Heavy Industries. GM later sells all of the stake. 1999 - GM spins off parts maker Delphi. Delphi's U.S. operations enter Chapter 11 reorganization in 2005, where they remain.
2000 - GM decides to kill the Oldsmobile brand.
2000 - GM buys 20 per cent of Italy's automaker Fiat for $2.4 billion in GM stock. The deal includes a "put" option that gives Fiat the right to force GM to buy the remainder of the Italian automaker.
2002 - GM signs deal to buy most of Daewoo.
2005 - GM pays $2 billion to Fiat to cancel "put" option under its deal and buy its way out of the alliance.
2007 - GM signs deal with the UAW, which includes shifting GM's retiree health care liabilities to an independent trust.
June 2008 - GM puts Hummer brand on review, ahead of a possible sale.
July 2008 - GM announces plans to cut costs by $10 billion and raise $5 billion through borrowing and asset sales.
Sept 2008 - GM and Chrysler holds talks to combine companies. GM sets aside talks in November to focus on preserving cash.
Nov 2008 - GM warns its liquidity will fall short of the minimum needed to run its business by the first half of 2009.
Dec 2, 2008 - GM seeks U.S. government aid of up to $18 billion.
Dec 19, 2008 - GM and Chrysler granted $17.4 billion in government loans.
Jan 21, 2009 - Toyota surpasses GM as the world's largest automaker for the first time.
Feb 5, 2009 - GM announces plan to slash its global salaried workforce by about 10,000, or 14 percent and cut the pay of most remaining white-collar U.S. workers.
Feb 17, 2009 - GM raises U.S. funding request to a total of $30 bln, announces plans to cut global workforce by 47,000 and close five U.S. plants by 2012.
Feb 26, 2009 - GM posts 2008 loss of $30.9 billion.
March 5, 2009 - GM's auditors raise "substantial doubt" about its ability to survive outside bankruptcy.
March 30, 2009 - GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner ousted by U.S. government, replaced by Chief Operating Officer Fritz Henderson. Company also given 60 days to develop new restructuring plan.
April 17, 2009 - GM says readying detailed plans for bankruptcy filing as it races to complete a business plan under federal oversight.
April 22, 2009 - GM says unlikely to make a $1 billion debt payment due June 1.
April 27, 2009 - GM offers final plan to reorganize outside bankruptcy by slashing bond debt, cutting over 21,000 more U.S. jobs and emerging as a nationalized automaker. GM warns it would file for bankruptcy if an offer to exchange bonds for company equity failed to cut $27 billion in debt by about 90 percent of bondholders.
May 5, 2009 - GM details plans to all but wipe out the holdings of remaining shareholders by issuing up to 60 billion new shares in a bid to pay off debt to the U.S. government, bondholders and the UAW.
May 7, 2009 - GM posts a first-quarter net loss of $6 billion and a cash burn of $10.2 billion.
May 15, 2009 - GM announces plans to drop 1,100 of its smaller, less-profitable dealerships.
May 21, 2009 - GM announces a new cost-saving labour agreement with the UAW, under which UAW-aligned healthcare trust will receive half of the $20 billion debt GM owes the fund in the form of stock and new debt, instead of cash.
May 22, 2009 - GM borrows another $4 billion from the U.S. Treasury and reaches deal with Canadian auto workers.
May 27, 2009 - GM's offer to exchange $27 billion in bond debt for a 10 percent stake in a reorganized company fails.
May 28, 2009 - GM and the U.S. Treasury make new equity exchange offer under which bondholders would be offered 10 percent of a reorganized company and given warrants to purchase another 15 percent.
June 1, 2009 - GM files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
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