GM Schedules Annual Stockholders' Meeting for June 3

Distributes Proxy Statement and Annual Report

DETROIT, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) today
issued its annual report to stockholders and filed its proxy statement with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company also announced that
E. Neville Isdell, chairman and chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola
Company, has been nominated to serve on the GM Board of Directors.
The proxy statement filed today includes information about GM's annual
meeting of stockholders, to be held June 3 in Wilmington, Del., the election
of the directors to GM's Board of Directors, the ratification of the selection
of independent public accountants for 2008, and eight stockholder proposals.
Fourteen candidates will stand for election to the Board of Directors at GM's
annual meeting. If Mr. Isdell is elected, he will join the Board on August 6,
2008.
Mr. Isdell will hold the office of chief executive officer of The
Coca-Cola Company until July 1, 2008 and will remain chairman until the
company's annual meeting of stockholders in April 2009.
A native of Ireland who joined Coca-Cola in 1966 with the local bottling
company in Zambia, Mr. Isdell held a series of global leadership roles before
becoming the company's 12th chairman and CEO in 2004. Mr. Isdell is also
chairman of the U.S.-Russia Business Council and chairman of the board of
trustees of the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF). He is a member of
the board of trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies
and a member of the Business Roundtable and the Corporate Advisory Board of
the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The proxy statement and 2007 annual report will be mailed to stockholders
and are available online at http://proxystatement.gm.com and
http://annualreport.gm.com, respectively.
General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's largest automaker, has been
the annual global industry sales leader for 77 years. Founded in 1908, GM
today employs about 266,000 people around the world. With global headquarters
in Detroit, GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 35 countries. In 2007,
nearly 9.37 million GM cards and trucks were sold globally under the following
brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, HUMMER, Opel,
Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, Vauxhall, and Wuling. GM's OnStar subsidiary is the
industry leader in vehicle safety, security, and information services. More
information on GM can be found at www.gm.com.
SOURCE General Motors Corp.

Renee Rashid-Merem, +1-313-665-3128, renee.rashid-merem@gm.com or Julie M.
Gibson, +1-313-213-3086, julie.m.gibson@gm.com, both of General Motors Corp.