I'm not American, so I don't have an intricate knowledge about your car market, but isn't GM doing relatively well since the bailout? At least their Volt/Bolt models seem to be pretty innovative, at the moment it would be my choice (i.e. the Opel Ampera derivative) if I were to look for a new car.
Fairly well. I could be wrong but I believe during the big 2008 downturn people stopped buying cars, yet of course GM needed to keep paying off their capital expenses. So they had a classic cash flow problem. Now sales are normative like you'd expect. Might be a silver lining in that the crisis likely motivated management to make improvements[1].
Although I'm under the impression that their fiance division GMAC took big loses. The standard wikepidia link seems to say GM divested before the big crisis hit.
