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General Motors Invests $294 Million Into Spring Hill Plant To Build New Cadillac Crossover

Although General Motors will lay off the third shift at the Spring Hill, Tennessee, assembly plant, there’s a sliver of good news: the automaker has selected the plant to build a new Cadillac crossover.

Tennessean reports GM allocated $294 million to the Spring Hill assembly to build the new crossover. The plant currently builds the 2017 Cadillac XT5 and 2017 GMC Acadia. Both crossovers ride on GM’s C1 platform.

While there has not been any confirmation, the crossover in question is likely the Cadillac XT6. It will be the luxury brand’s three-row CUV and likely ride on the long-wheelbase variant of the C1 platform. The XT5 and Acadia utilize a short-wheelbase version. If GM taps X1 for the XT6, its dimensions would fall in line with the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse and 2018 Buick Enclave.

Not only will the XT6 will an important product gap, it will likely create a bridge for Cadillac’s pricing. The XT5, the brand’s only crossover, starts around $40,000, while the next step up, the Cadillac Escalade, costs another $30,000. The XT6 will likely fall in-between those price brackets.

It’s unclear when we’ll see the Cadillac XT6—we haven’t even seen spy shots of the CUV—but the Cadillac XT4, the brand’s upcoming compact crossover, will debut next year.

Former GM Authority staff writer.

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  1. Why not building it along side the Traverse and Enclave as they ride on the same longer C1???

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    1. Potentially many reasons — space for example — GM will invest in tooling but new facilities — but building more facilities other than body shops/paint shops when necessary — are difficult to get approved. The third shift at Springhill is on layoff — not sure why a third shift was warranted — overzealous sales projections or launch issues or ???? — but it’s a huge cost factor. Potentially not putting all your eggs in one basket too depending on local labor agreements. Or other factors — or combinations of all of them.

      Much of the tooling is probably product specific so there may not be a lot of savings as long as it is built off the same platform, whether regular or extended. IF the BIW takes the same carriers, maybe some
      savings in Body/Paint, but not necessarily in GA.

      It would be interesting to know more about some of the decisions. On the surface, some don’t appear logical but I take that to mean that we don’t understand all the issues.

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  2. This is just speculation, but I believe GM is going to put the new Blazer into Lansing to pick up the lost production from when Acadia left Lansing. To put the caddy in Lansing wouldn’t use all the capacity that the plant has to offer, but the Blazer would.

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  3. Will any SUV be built on the Omega platform? That’s the good one.

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