And, just like that, we’re rounding out the summer months and heading into fall, the season to bring us changing colors in the trees, a plethora of pumpkin flavored anything among other things. Oh, and the 2o16 Chevrolet Camaro.
General Motors has released pricing information for the 2016 Chevy Camaro and, behind the scenes, new GM trainees are gearing up for the car’s production at the Lansing Grand River assembly plant.
The Lansing State Journal stood back and watched as trainees were thrown onto the conveyer and trained on wooden vehicle replicas, taking off and assembling bumpers, taillights and steering wheels.
After two 10-minute rounds, they trainees were expected to disassemble, and reassemble 18 pseudo Camaros. 15 were completed, and 14 had defects.
“Not everyone wants to pull the cord, but their problems will get bigger if they don’t,” said Jason Smith, a team leader for the trainees. The exercise was meant to teach them that,  according to Smith.
“When I first started here, we didn’t have training,” said Smith, who has worked at the plant for 16 years. “They stuck you on the floor and had you fend for yourself. Today, you are more prepared for the job.”
In all, these were the last trainees of the 450 new employees hired on for the second shift at the Lansing Grand River assembly, as production returns to the U.S. for the 2016 Camaro.
New employees of the assembly are thrilled to have the chance to build a car like the 2016 Camaro, as told by Chris Frosty, one of the many new hires.
“The fact that they are bringing Camaro production to Lansing says a lot about (this plant) and its employees,” said Frosty, who was hired in June. “It shows that the auto industry is good and it’s going to keep growing.”
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Let the Canadians train them,,,,since it was ripped from their hands for no reason. They made the Camaro just fine, great quality built. But maybe was it the U.S? That could call it real American Muscle cause it wasn’t built there. Now you have hundreds of Canadians out of a job, but that doesn’t matter to the Americans.
Hey asshat, the Camaro isn’t the only thing made at Oshawa. You wanna bitch and moan about the Canadians losing one car, Americans lost their jobs after the Van Nuys plant closed all together when the Camaro was “ripped from their hands for no reason” when production went to Canada, but that doesn’t matter to Canadians.
C’mon man. you know most Americans don’t wanna see Canadians lose jobs.
BTW GM is an United States company that is hiring Canadian works to begin with. Get mad at a Canadian automobile manufacturer for not supplying enough jobs you clown
Hey guys don’t fight! Its a Camaro, not like it’s anything that matters. If production problems arise, GM will just leave the American tax payer the bill to pay (remember the bail out). Hell, that ought to make you Canadians happy? In the mean time, have you taken a look at the Mustang ?
I wasn’t going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government. I was going to buy from a manufacturer that’s standing on their own: win, lose, or draw. That’s what America is about is taking the chance to succeed and understanding when you fail that you gotta pick yourself up and go back to work. Ford is that company for me. “Chris” 9/11/2011
Hey Mike did Ford pay back the 5.9 billion they took from the Derpartment of Energy in 2009? don’t believe me go on the department of energy web site Ford took the money which is tax payers money. So I don’t know which car company your going to buy from
Ford also borrowed several billion from the banks in ’08 or ’09 and then the government bailed the banks out. Ford was in the same deep s..t as GM and Chrysler in ’08. Ford just borrowed money first and then their was none when Gm and Chrysler went to the well ( Not meaning that Ford took all the money, just that the banks were in the toilet by then.)
Royce, you are 100% correct. Ford was in deep sh*t around the middle part of the last decade (when the economy was fairly good). Mulally came in, saw how bad it was, and mortgaged the entire company, putting items like the Ford blue oval up for collateral, to obtain huge loans to keep the company afloat.
When the economy hid the skids, and gas prices went thru the roof, no banks were giving out loans to anybody, let alone just GM. The rest is “history”.
Mike needs to get off his “Ford” high horse.
Who cares if the government “bailed” them out or gave GM loans.
The Asian automakers are subsidized by their government, you think they are not? How much do you know about foreign countries taxation and accounting systems?
you also need to check out the taxation on engine displacement in certain countries that drastically hurts GM and Ford’s automobile sales.
Check out the Keiretsu business philosophy in Japan and in which South Korea has a similar situation.
Mike “your way” of doing things would bury the United States automakers.
The other countries’ automakers can care less about the united states capitalistic economy – their goal is to put GM and Ford under.
you also probably use that 5th grader term “Government Motors” which is lame.
have you driven a Ford lately oh fuck no!
You know what is wrong.
All the damn polite clean Snow Backs run across the river ice in the winter in Detroit and steal the jobs from Americans at the Ford plants.
The reality check is that Ford was about to go broke before they hired Mullaley. He set up a huge financial deal with the BANKS, including using all of assests, including the Blue Oval as collateral. When GM and Chrysler had their problems 2 years later, the Banks were BROKE !!!!! The only source of cash was the Government. If the Govt. had not stepped in, all would have gone down because the suppliers would also have gone bust. That’s the facts. All in the timing