While General Motors will bring up the all-new 2017 Cadillac SRX production from Ramos Arizpe, Mexico to the United States per a recent announcement, Reuters reports that the company has also made the decision to produce a share of the next-generation Chevrolet Equinox at the Mexican facility, beginning 2017. By that time, the current-generation Equinox will be eight years old.
While this decision may initially have some American car buyers up in arms, the decision made room for the start of Cadillac SRX production at the Spring Hill, TN plant (where the Equinox is currently produced). The plant will also be producing a selection of all-new small Ecotec engines.  However, fear is the production shift may offset the number of jobs created from the SRX announcement, though nobody is really talking. A GMC model is also expected to be joining the next-generation 2017 SRX at the Tennessee plant, most likely the next-generation Terrain, but official confirmation still remains to be announced. A production facility for the North-American 2016 Buick Envision has also yet to be announced.
Currently, the Chevrolet Equinox is assembled in Ingersoll, Ontario, Oshawa, Ontario and Spring Hill.
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I understand it’s a global economy now.. but I still think atleast all Cadillacs should be American made as much as possible pride thing.
Well this is about the last one made out side the states other than the XTS.
I think that may be part of the reason they are bringing the entire line home again. We will have to watch where the LTS goes and is planned to be built.
The Mexican cars are built just over the boarder. They are also assembled with many parts made here. My HHR has the majority of the parts marked made in USA. Even the Italian MFG of the Horn made it in the states.
I also it is more economical for GM to build the more expensive car here as they have more room on price and profit. The Chevy on the other hand has a slimmer margin and by building it at a lower cost plant can help on the sale price or even let them offer more standard options at a lower price to remain competitive.
No matter where it is built the standards will remain the same of Quality but the price can play a big part in how well the market accepts the car.
The LTS will be built in D-Ham.
I think the fair trade agreement should be revoked, All is does is made it ease for usa corporations to move out of the usa for lower wages and lower taxes .(SHAME ON THEM), how long before all the jobs are gone???.
Well the original intent of the agreement was to get business to go to Mexico to help prop up the economy and let the Mexican people have good jobs and stay in their own country.
The fact is it is important to us and Canada for Mexico to have a stable economy and stable government.
But the government here never sealed the boarder and the Mexican government never really did their part to try to continue to bring stability to the boarder area.
Things are bad now and if Mexico ever merged to work with radicals from else where we could be in even more trouble than we already are.
The intent was good but the outcome was poor.
All our jobs are not going to go there as they would have already if that were true. The Automakers for the most part are just building mostly the lower priced or price critical cars there right now vs. the more expensive ones they had in the past.
Also you would be surprised how many people in these plants are not even Mexican. The Korean makers and many Asian workers have moved there to work.
I have people I know that help set up production lines and many of the people they work with have moved in from Asia.
The Equinox built in Mexico will be used for more global destinations than the Equinox in Spring Hill and Oshawa. I also expect it to carry a Captiva badge as well.
Tariffs are much less on cars leaving Mexico for global destinations than the U.S.; most of the world’s major countries tariff the heck out of U.S. goods and Mexico little to none. The Cadillac will sell in smaller numbers than the Equinox/Captiva and has a larger profit margin; thus GM is maximizing profits and potential sales, let alone maximizing manufacturing capacity.
I see this as a win win for GM.
I read an article recently that said it is now cheaper to build cars in the US than Mexico , reason GM has decided to build the SRX here . The next Gen Equinox will be high volume making the business case to build in Mexico and still make money > . The SRX plus Terrain combind still don’t equall the Nox’s sales per year .
I say open both the Mexican and Canadian borders like the EU had already done.
This last recession proved that surplus Mexican labor stays home when jobs are scarce. I Grr that some people are hung up on the racial/language issues but that will pass in time.
NAFTA should be about North American Union, not passports or fences.
We are all North Americans.
Are we not forgetting one of the best GM Assembly Plants out there? Why the heck are Equinox’s going to be built at Ramos Azripe? They need to bring production over to Oshawa; especially since their future isn’t looking too bright.
Iwould think the Equinox will be built in Ingersoll where it is currently produced. The quality is second to none.
After all help in 2008 from canadian and u.s gov they will move to mexico !!?
Fuck You Gm !
how come i need a passport to travel to mexico or canada but cars are built in mexico or canada require no tax