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AmeriCredit Announces $1,300,000,000 Asset-Backed Securitization

28 January 2000

AmeriCredit Corp. Announces $1,300,000,000 Asset-Backed Securitization

    FORT WORTH, Texas--Jan. 27, 2000--AmeriCredit Corp. announced today the pricing of a $1.3 billion offering of automobile receivables-backed securities through Banc of America Securities LLC, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Chase Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse First Boston.
    The securities will be issued via an owner trust, AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2000-A, in four classes of Notes:


Note Class          Amount   Average Life        Price   Coupon
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   A-1      $  182,000,000     0.26 years   100.000000    6.04%
   A-2         313,000,000     0.75 years    99.992921    6.54%
   A-3         572,000,000     2.00 years    99.995528    7.15%
   A-4         233,000,000     3.50 years    99.975250    7.29%
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            $1,300,000,000 
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    The Notes will be rated AAA by Standard & Poor's and Aaa by Moody's. Principal and interest payments on the Notes are guaranteed by an insurance policy provided by Financial Security Assurance Inc.
    The transaction represents AmeriCredit Corp.'s twentieth securitization of automobile receivables in which a total of over $9.0 billion of automobile receivables-backed securities have been issued.
    AmeriCredit is one of the nation's largest middle market automobile finance companies specializing in purchasing, securitizing and servicing automobile loans. AmeriCredit maintains a Web site at www.americredit.com that contains further information on the Company.