The planned shutdown of General Motors‘ Lansing Grand River Assembly plant in Michigan will cost the automaker 5,100 units in production in March, according to a new report from Automotive News.
GM said last week that it would pause production at Lansing Grand River starting on Monday, March 15th, with the shutdown expected to last until at least the end of the month. The shutdown will cost the automaker at least 5,100 units in lost production at the plant, which produces the Cadillac CT4 and CT5 sedans and Chevy Camaro sports coupe.
The plant shutdown was brought on by the ongoing semiconductor supply shortage, which has been affecting automotive production across the globe in recent weeks. Automakers like GM are battling with the consumer electronics and medical equipment industries for access to microchips as suppliers in China, Taiwan, Korea and elsewhere try to ramp up production and keep up with growing demand.
“We continue to work closely with our supply base to find solutions for our suppliers’ semiconductor requirements and to mitigate impact on GM,” spokesman David Barnas said last week. “Our intent is to make up as much production lost at these plants as possible.”
In North America, the chip shortage has so far affected the production of 334,000 vehicles – up 13,000 from last week. Experts predict this figure to hit nearly 500,000 before the chip crisis begins to subside later this year.
In addition to the Lansing Grand River plant, GM has also been forced to temporarily shut down its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas, CAMI Assembly plant in Ontario and San Luis Potosí Assembly plant in Mexico due to the chip shortage. The automaker is focused on using its chip supply on its most popular and profit-heavy products – those being full-size trucks and SUVs like the Chevy Silverdo and Chevy Tahoe.
“GM has not taken downtime or reduced shifts at any of its truck plants due to the shortage,” the automaker said. “We continue to work closely with our supply base to find solutions for our suppliers’ semiconductor requirements and to mitigate impacts on GM.”
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My car is stuck in that queue 😢
I got lucky and got my 2021 Camaro just before all this started happening.
Me, too, Just took delivery of my CT last Friday – had to wait 104 days after placing the order, though.
What?! That is so long man. I plan on getting a 2022 ZL1 sometime this year and will probably be in the same situation.
I was told that orders for 2022 can be placed in late June. I’m guessing the production would start in September.
My Camaro was to be built week of 2 15 2021 would it be built with out a chip in it.dealer said it had a vin still held up.
I hope to be able to order a 2022 camaro sometime this year.
This is all due to short sighted ceo’s waiting for Trump to leave office rather than find other chip maker options than chinese. I have only simpathy for the workers.
I work for a union trust me they getting paid or will get back pay…how about that 9,000 dollar bouns that GM employees got…granted not all of them got it…you know what my Christmas bound is 25 dollars…you take a job know what your getting yourself into, this is nothing new from any automaker. As far as the chips go they should have built them in America, Mexico or Canada. I own two GM vehicles and I will continue to buy GM cars no matter what.
I wanted to order an RS convertible as there is nothing in Canada. There is a 4 month wait and then told the dealer doesn’t have the ‘credits’ to place an order. Any wonder Mustang sales eclipse Camaro.
I love this now people complain about Camaro production…how about the last 3 or 4 years that the new model was out? Just bring back the SS and call it Impala then make a large coupe called Chevelle… double sales….why can’t the people in charge figure this out? The Challenger sells well then again Ford has no large coupe either. I can dream I guess.
I ordered a new camero 2/9/2021 just my luck they shut the darn plant down
Waiting for your build? Bad news, the shut down has been extended for another 2 weeks.
I ordered feb 9 haven’t got a build date no wonder the darn plant shut down. Be lucky even get the camero then