GM's Wagoner to travel by car to Washington

In 1077, the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV, famously stood barefoot in the snow for three days outside of Canossa Castle seeking an audience with Pope Gregory VII. In an event know as the "Walk to Canossa," Henry had come barefoot and in a hairshirt to plead with the Pope to lift his ban of excommunication.

Almost a millenium later, GM CEO Rick Wagoner began his own "Walk to Canossa."

GM announced today that Wagoner will travel the 520 miles to Washington and his next meeting on Capitol Hill in a Chevy Malibu hybrid sedan. Wagoner is coming to plead with Congress for the bailout money he say's GM needs to survive.