General Motors has idled its Lansing and Delta assembly plants for an additional week according to The Lansing State Journal.
The plant was original scheduled for a holiday shut down, and was to restart production this week. Now, the Lansing assembly will resume production on January 4, 2016, and the Delta assembly will fire up again on January 11, 2016.
Additional retooling and new equipment installation will occur over the extra week after GM invested $520 million into Lansing-Delta earlier this year. The investment also retained 1,900 jobs at Lansing-Delta, which currently produces the Lambda triplets; the Chevrolet Traverse, Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia.
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‘Additional retooling and new equiptment installation will occur over the extra week.’ Uhm…Why?
Is there expected to be a revised version of any of the triplets slated for early 2016 that I have not read about?
Code for flagging sales?
I am not sure what you mean by ‘flagging sales’ since the triplets are up an average of 11.4% YTD compared to 2014. That is actually stellar for vehicles that have not been redesigned or have had a significant refresh in 9 years.
Remember that the Acadia (the oldest current one) has been on the market since this time 2006 virtually untouched and it is still up 16% YTD to last year.
Combined they still lead the midsized crossover segment by a large amount over the Explorer.
Well, they have been flat-ish to down, especially in 2015, during an otherwise white hot market.
Compare the Enclave to the Encore –
roughly a 90% difference? And the Enclave is a nice ride.
But – I agree: 9 years is too long to wait for a refresh. Silverado and Sierra taught us that, and are having a banner year (different circumstances, I know). But if you take Traverse out of the equation, the numbers get worse. Especially for 2015. Anyway, just asking the question …
Again I dispute ‘flatish’. With the exception of the Enclave that is relatively flat in sales (up 2.3%) the other 2 (Acadia and Traverse) are up over 16% YTD which is a higher percentage than either the Silverado or Sierra and that is after nearly a decade on the market.
Traverse & Acadia are up 16.3% YTD in a segment that’s up 12.3% YTD. Not only I wouldn’t call it ‘flatish’, but I would say they’re among the ones leading the charge.