Sales offices sit empty in the opening hour at the Quality Chevrolet dealer ship in Escondido, California June 1, 2009. General Motors Corp filed for bankruptcy on Monday, forcing the 100-year-old automaker once seen as a symbol of American economic might and dynamism into a new and uncertain era of government ownership.
The bankruptcy filing is the third-largest in U.S. history and the largest ever in U.S. Manufacturing. REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES BUSINESS TRANSPORT POLITICS)