SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549-1004





                                    FORM 8-K
                    CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OF
                            THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934



          Date of Report
(Date of earliest event reported) December 13, 2000
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                           GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
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                   (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)




      STATE OF DELAWARE                 1-143                 38-0572515
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(State or other jurisdiction   (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer
 of incorporation)                                        Identification No.)




300 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan                    48265-3000
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  (Address of principal executive offices)                   (Zip Code)







Registrant's telephone number, including area code       (313) 556-5000
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ITEM 5.  OTHER ITEMS

On December 13, 2000,  General  Motors  Corporation's  (GM) issued the following
press release  announcing  John M. Devine as vice chairman and  chief  financial
officer. The release is as follows:

John M. Devine Named GM's Chief Financial Officer

DETROIT - General Motors Corp.  (NYSE:   GM)  today  named  veteran  automotive
executive John M. Devine as vice chairman and chief financial officer, effective
Jan. 1, 2001. He will begin working for the company  immediately and will report
to GM President and Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner.

Devine, 56, currently is chairman and chief executive officer of Fluid Ventures,
an e-business  venture services firm with offices in San Francisco and New York.
He spent  over 30 years at Ford  Motor  Co.  and was CFO there  from 1994  until
October 1999.

Devine's appointment was announced at a news conference by Wagoner.

"We're very  excited to have an  executive  of John  Devine's  caliber join GM's
management team," Wagoner said. "His reputation as a  straight-shooter  who acts
in the best  interest  of  stockholders  is  well-known  on Wall  Street and the
broader  investor  community.  His  skills and  knowledge  of the  industry  and
financial world will be major assets to General Motors.

"In John,  we get  someone  who would be called a  'high-impact  player'  in the
sports  world,"  Wagoner  added.  "Because  of  his  intimate  knowledge  of the
industry,  he will be able to  contribute  immediately.  He has  operated at the
highest levels of the auto industry and worked in Europe, Asia Pacific and North
America.  He  not  only  has  broad  financial  experience,  but  also  has  had
significant   operational   duties  that  brought  him  in  close  contact  with
product-development and marketing activities."

Devine  joined  Ford  in 1967 as a  financial  analyst  and  held a  variety  of
supervisory and managerial  positions in product development  finance, and later
in Europe and the  Asia-Pacific  region.  In 1986 he was named vice president of
northern Pacific business development and president of Ford Motor Co.-Japan, and
was elected to the Mazda Motor Corp.  board of directors.  He spent eleven years
in  international  assignments  spending time in United  Kingdom,  Australia and
Japan.

He  returned  to the  United  States in 1988 and was named  controller  of truck
operations  for Ford's North  American  automotive  operations.  He joined First
Nationwide  Bank,  a Ford  subsidiary,  later  in 1988 as  president  and  chief
operating  officer and was  appointed  chairman and CEO in 1991.  He returned to
Ford as vice president and corporate controller in June 1994 and was named group
vice  president  and CFO later  that year.  Within a year,  he was  promoted  to
executive vice president and CFO, reporting to then-CEO Alex Trotman.

Devine was born May 13, 1944, in Pittsburgh,  Pa. He and his wife,  Pat, live in
suburban  Detroit.  They have two  children.  Devine holds a bachelor of science
degree  in  economics  from  Duquesne   University  and  a  master  of  business
administration degree from the University of Michigan.







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The search for CFO was conducted by Egon-Zehnder out of Chicago. General Motors,
the world's largest vehicle manufacturer,  designs,  builds and markets cars and
trucks  worldwide.  It employs about 395,000  people  globally.  GM is investing
aggressively in high technology and  e-businesses  within its global  automotive
operations  and through such  initiatives  as e-GM, GM BuyPower,  OnStar and its
Hughes Electronics Corp. (NYSE: GMH) subsidiary.

GM also  operates  one of the  world's  largest  and most  successful  financial
institutions,  GMAC.  More  information  on  General  Motors  can  be  found  at
www.gm.com.



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                                    SIGNATURE

Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                            GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
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                                                    (Registrant)
Date    December 13, 2000
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                                       By
                                            /s/Peter R. Bible
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                                            (Peter R. Bible,
                                             Chief Accounting Officer)




























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