AmeriCredit Announces New Credit Enhancement Facility

    FORT WORTH, Texas--Aug. 20, 2002--AMERICREDIT CORP. announced today it has closed a $290 million credit enhancement facility led by Deutsche Bank AG, New York Branch. Other financial institutions providing credit support for the facility include Barclays Bank PLC, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Wachovia Securities, Inc. and Credit Suisse First Boston.
    The company will use the facility to offer credit enhancement for future senior subordinated securitization transactions supplementing the Company's reinsurance commitments for credit enhancement in bond insured transactions. The funding commitments expire in August 2003.
    "We are pleased to have completed this transaction with some of our key financial partners," says Daniel Berce, AmeriCredit's chief financial officer. "The new residual financing gives us additional flexibility within our securitization program."
    Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the Company's filings and reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission including the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the period ended June 30, 2001. Such risks include - but are not limited to - deteriorating economic environment, adverse portfolio performance, reliance on capital markets, fluctuating interest rates, increased competition, regulatory changes and tightening labor markets. These forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of the Company's management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to Company management. Actual events or results may differ materially.
    AmeriCredit Corp. is the largest independent middle-market auto finance company in North America. Using its branch network and strategic alliances with auto groups and banks, the company purchases installment contracts made by auto dealers to consumers who are typically unable to obtain financing from traditional sources. AmeriCredit has more than one million customers throughout the United States and Canada and more than $14 billion in managed auto receivables. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. For more information, visit www.americredit.com.