Chinese customers check out the various models on display at a General Motors showroom in Shanghai on May 13, 2009. As the feds turn up the heat on the auto giant in Detroit with bankruptcy seeming increasingly inescapable, half a world away GM is playing it cool in China where it broke the latest in series of monthly sales records in April. Getty Images logo Getty Images 33 months ago

Chinese customers check out the various models on display at a General Motors showroom in Shanghai on May 13, 2009. As the feds turn up the heat on the auto giant in Detroit with bankruptcy seeming increasingly inescapable, half a world away GM is playing it cool in China where it broke the latest in series of monthly sales records in April.