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GM Invests 230 Million Euros For Opel/Vauxhall European Product Development Center

General Motors has announced that it will invest 230 million Euros ($301.3 million USD) in new testing facilities at its European Product Development Center at the Opel headquarters in Ruesselsheim and the Dudenhofen proving grounds (in Germany) within the next three to four years. The announcement comes two weeks after GM’s Board of Directors visited the European Opel/Vauxhall operations and committed to invest 4 billion Euros for future product between 2013 and 2016.

Opel says that the main investment is a new dynomometer and testing cell lab in Ruesselsheim. The commitment also includes a new fuel station, audio lab, and safety analysis building.

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  1. Guess they decided to keep the Money pit after all.

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  2. GM is investing this money because they will get it back & more besides, Europe has great potential – yes it’s in decline now – but in 18 months or so it will grow again & if they invest now in 18 months they should have a envyable line up of cars. New segments can be entered once again (new Omega, Calibra) for examples a SUV based on Buick’s Enclave or new Sintra based on Buick’s GL8 (there is one on the Internet). There are many possibility s & they are all good positive opportunitys, I feel the majority of Vauxhall & Opel’s will be European made with some cars being exported in from Australia, China & America.

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  3. Various investments also allow a closer worldwide integration of GM’s technical development centers.

    The new dynomometers allow a closer link with the GM’s powertrain facilities in Pontiac (USA) and Torino (italy),

    Also new installations at the Dudenhofen testing ground will produce testing results to be shared internationally with comparable parameters.

    Those investments “will give us global responsibility in engine development”, said Opel CEO (and President GM Europe) Karl-Thomas Neumann.

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