Along with the details of the new labor agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers, it should be noted that The General plans on re-opening its assembly plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee in order to build a pair of all-new midsized models that were originally slated to be produced in Mexico.
Current GM vehicles built in Mexico that are sold in the U.S. include the Cadillac SRX and Escalade EXT, along with the Chevrolet Avalanche. So what could the vehicles destined for Spring Hill be? Well, here are some possible candidates.
According to Tennessee newspaper The Daily Herald, GM will invest $61 million for one of the vehicles while adding 600 jobs, while the other will cost $358 million in renovations to the plant and will spawn 1,100 jobs. For those that are bad at math, that means Spring Hill Assembly is expected to receive a total of $419 million, with 1,700 newly created positions.
There are also plans for GM to build an undisclosed small car and add another 500 jobs in a facility that’s yet to be determined. However, the plant in Shreveport, Louisiana is still expected to be mothballed as planned, and there are no plans to restart the plant in Janesville, Wisconsin. We wouldn’t be surprised if the Granite ends up joining the Chevy Sonic and Buick Verano in Orion Twp., Michigan though.
In addition, Wentzville, Missouri will see a $380 million investment, another shift and 1,850 new jobs to build an all-new midsized truck, which we’re hoping to be the all-new Chevy Colorado and possibly the next-generation GMC Canyon. The truck assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana will build next generation full-sized trucks, which is worth a cool $230 million and 150 jobs created or retained.
Plants in Michigan will see another $925 million and 900 jobs from the deal. These funds will be divided among Warren Powertrain ($325 million, 360 jobs), Romulus Engine ($385 million, 285 jobs), and Saginaw Metal Casting ($215 million, 255 jobs).
Source: The Detroit Free Press
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So you said midsize vehicles at Spring Hill, what does that mean car, CUV… If car malibu size or impala size… personaly I like the idea of more choices this is good GM should have a breadth of product, now bring back pontiac ha I wish…
Indeed, it’s not clear if the vehicles will be passenger cars or crossovers. They were vague on purpose.
Maybe they are going to transition Malibu manufacturing to Spring Hill
They just spent hundreds of millions of dollars to retool Fairfax and Hamtramck for Malibu production. So I don’t think production will be transferred. Maybe increased with the addition of Spring Hill… I’m definitely going to have to do some snooping around.
New small car likely to be the GMC Granite.
Truth. That’s why I linked back to a story about the Granite 🙂
Granite is correct and will be Orion. and other for spill over
Manoli, good point, ok so midsize may mean vehicles that slot above the malibu in size and provide less agressive styling and maybe include some form of crossover/wagon. This vehicle however would not be a replacement for the Impala but be just shy of its size.
It could be spill over for the GMC and Chevy crossovers currently built in Oshawa.
Having built Peterbuilts, Caterpillar bulldozers , semi-trailers etc.. I’d love to get an application on file with GM for the future. Where does one apply ? Any help is welcome. Thank you.
Timothy Pj, I hope this helps: http://careers.gm.com/usa/gm.jsp?p=manu
thank you brother!
That makes more sense, ya I can see that.
Is there any plan for a minivan, I saw something about a minivan at St Louis factory. Interesting…
No minivan, new midsized truck. We’re assuming that the new Colorado is coming.
Right I relize the truck part, saw a story about a van as well, wanted to touch base with you guys to see if you had heard anything about a van as well.
The Wentzville plant already builds the Chevy Express and GMC Savanna vans, but talk of another minivan is news to me.
Ok… maybe i am smokin somethin, thought I saw somethin in an article about a minivan too. Cant find article though…