Press Release

GM Announces Promotion for Two Executives

11/06/96

GM Promotes Two Executives


DETROIT, Nov. 4 -- The General Motors Board of
Directors approved the promotion of two executives, it was announced
today by GM Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President John
F. Smith, Jr.


John R. Rines, GM vice president and president of General Motors
Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) was promoted to group executive. M. A.
"Raz" Razaq, a GM Europe vice president of Sales, Marketing and
Aftersales, was elected a GM vice president. The promotions are
effective immediately.

Rines, 49, a member of the GMAC Board of Directors, is responsible for
GMAC activities worldwide, including its insurance and mortgage
subsidiaries. He will continue to report to J. Michael Losh, GM
executive vice president and chief financial officer. Rines joined GM
in 1970. He has held a variety of GM operating and financial positions
in the U.S. and internationally, including general manager of GM
Service Parts Operations, executive director of finance for GM do
Brasil, and general manager of Motors Holding Division. He was named
president and chief operating officer of GMAC in June 1992, and was
elected a GM vice president in July 1994.

A native of Baltimore, Md., Rines received a bachelor's degree in
economics from Colorado State University in 1969, and an MBA from the
University of Virginia in 1977.

Razaq, 62, a member of GM's European Strategy Board since November
1994, was named GM Europe vice president of Sales, Marketing and
Aftersales on November 1, 1996. Previously, he had been executive
director of sales for GM Europe since April 1993. Razaq joined General
Motors in June 1967 and held several positions in sales management in
Germany, Greece, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He moved to GM Espana in 1980
as director of sales and marketing and played a major role in starting
up GM's operations in Spain. Razaq was named a GM Europe regional
director, Eastern Europe and Export Markets, in June 1990, and was
appointed regional director for European sales in July 1992.

A native of Islamabad, Pakistan, Razaq earned a bachelor of economics
degree from the London School of Economics in 1954. He has also
attended the Advance Management Program at the University of Virginia.