Do you really think the entire american auto industry would have collapsed, or maybe just the mismanaged ones and maybe the free market would have done what it is known to do and allowed the ones that were more practical business models to succeed (ford!). just sayin.... if GM had gone out of business, someone would have had to pick up their portion of the market... its not like everyone is going to be like, OK, well GM is gone, I'm not buying american cars anymore. Honestly, i don't keep up on politics very much, so correct me if i'm wrong, but from what I know, I don't think you can credit obama with saving the entire auto industry.