Production of the 2021 Chevy Camaro has resumed at GM’s Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Michigan. Production of the muscle car was previously halted as a result of the ongoing global microchip shortage.
Per a report from local PBS affiliate WKAR, production of the 2021 Chevy Camaro restarted Monday. The plant was idled as of May 10th, 2021 due to a shortage of semiconductor chips required for essential vehicle features. The microchip shortage has affected the entirety of the auto industry, cutting production and reducing the availability of features worldwide.
The GM Lansing Grand River production facility also produces the Cadillac CT4 and Cadillac CT5 luxury sedans. However, production of both Cadillac models is not not expected to resume until August 9th, once again due to the microchip shortage. That said, the plant will continue to provide limited production of the 2022 Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing and 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing, the range-topping performance models of the CT4 and CT5 lineups.
Per a statement made by Lansing Grand River spokesperson Erin Davis, the GM supply chain, engineering teams, and manufacturing teams are developing “creative solutions” and “making strides to maximize production of high-demand and capacity-constrained vehicles.”
Following the production shutdown at the Lansing Grand River facility, it was originally expected that the 2021 Chevy Camaro would resume production on June 28th. However, that production date was later shifted a week earlier to June 21st, as GM Authority covered previously.
This isn’t the first time the Lansing Grand River was forced to idle this year as a result of the microchip shortage. The facility was previously idled in March, with Chevy Camaro, Cadillac CT4, and Cadillac CT5 production all going offline. Production resumed in early May before once again going offline on May 10th.
Other GM production facilities impacted by the microchip shortage include San Luis Potosi in Mexico, Fairfax Assembly in Kansas, and CAMI Assembly in Ontario, to name just a few. It’s estimated that a total of 278,000 GM vehicles have been cut thus far as a result of the shortage.
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I was at my Vette dealer today and they did NOT have the 2022 order guide. Did GM pull one on us?
Its possible they aren’t ready to release it yet. If the 2022 production date has been pushed back no reason to release it early as changes may happen before they are ready to start taking 2022 orders.
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Maybe the factory will still be able to hit the TPW of July 12 for my CT5V BLACKWING now that the plant is up and running .
Really, how stupid is that? Who cares about the 21’s anymore? While they were dicking around they should have just retooled for the 22’s and called it a day.
Not quite that simple unless there are no changes whatsoever to the car. They would have to scrap all the parts inventory for 2020 specific parts, plus they are going to be committed to a pile of additional parts coming from the suppliers. And those suppliers can’t produce both the 2020 parts and 2021 parts at the same time. You can only pull in the dates so far until you hit the firm window on your parts orders.
I know Ryan, they will be making such earth shattering changes to the 22’s, that It’s not not going to be that simple as cancelling chip orders.
I think this is great news in the bigger picture. We end to get moving fwd 🇺🇸
I’m wondering if they are even going make anymore the 2021 camaros Iv had 1 on order since first week February 2021
I’m just glad that people are working again. If it take time before they get to the 2022 that’s fine just get the parts and let them roll. I’ll be waiting for my Rapid Blue convertible.
Have to agree, people are back to work, and that’s the bottom line to me. Not sure how the vette got into the conversation though. Completely different car line/factory. With the days in the field as low as was, any increase is a good thing.
GM will survive, always has. May not be in the form it is now though with all the E/V’s. Buy stock in extension cords.
I was at the dealer today, and we went into the order system and put an order together for a 2022 Rapid Blue coupe. So the system has opened for the 2022’s. The dealer said it opened today
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