GM to Hold U.S. Marketing & Sales Update Hosted by Mark LaNeve and Paul Ballew

        GM will conduct a one-hour U.S. Marketing and Sales update
               and review progress of new vehicle launches

  WHEN:  Monday, March 27, 2006

  WHERE: General Motors Headquarters
         GM Renaissance Center
         100 Renaissance Center

  WHO:   Mark LaNeve - GMNA Vice President, Vehicle Sales,
         Service and Marketing
         Paul Ballew - Executive Director, Global Marketing &
         Industry Analysis

General Motors will be holding a conference call to provide an update on its U.S. Marketing Strategy. The conference call will start at approximately 1:00 p.m. ET on Monday, March 27, 2006. The conference call is expected to last approximately 60 minutes.

The presentation for the speakers will be available on http://media.gm.com/ and on our investor website http://investor.gm.com/ at approximately 12:45 p.m. ET on March 27, 2006. The presentations will be available in the Calendar/Events section under Recent Events.

To access the conference call, please dial 1-800-391-0063 (1-212-676-5371 for international access) ten minutes prior to the start time and ask to be connected to the General Motors conference call. All callers will be in listen-only mode.

A taped replay of this call will be made available from 4:00 p.m. ET, March 27, 2006, until 4:00 p.m. ET, March 28, 2006. Please dial 1-800-633-8284 (or 1-402-977-9140 for international access) and enter reservation number 21287908 to access the replay.

We will also audio webcast the conference call live on http://media.gm.com/ . A replay of the webcast will also be made available.