GM pickup truck production will restart next Monday following a brief shutdown that began on Monday, August 9th.
According to Automotive News, GM pickup production at the automaker’s Fort Wayne Assembly plant and Flint Assembly plant in the U.S., along with its Silao Assembly plant in Mexico, will come back online at the beginning of next week. The Fort Wayne and Silao facilities produce the Chevy Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500, while Flint Assembly produces the Chevy Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD. All three plants were idled due to the global semiconductor shortage.
GM has managed to avoid taking lengthy downtime at any of its three pickup plants by prioritizing its chip supply for the Silverado and Sierra, which are among its two most popular and profitable products. The automaker has also been storing partially completed trucks in storage lots, allowing it to quickly bring the trucks back into the plant and complete them when it receives more chips. Other trucks are being built without certain features to cut back on chip usage, like HD Radio, Dynamic Fuel Management and Active Fuel Management. GM shut down its truck plants in order to complete these partially finished vehicles, the automaker said last week.
“This period will provide us with the opportunity to complete unfinished vehicles at the impacted assembly plants and ship those units to dealers,” it said in a statement.
Chevrolet Silverado & GMC Sierra Sales - H1 2021 - USA
MODEL | YTD 21 / YTD 20 | YTD 21 | YTD 20 |
---|---|---|---|
SILVERADO | +9.04% | 291,322 | 267,166 |
SIERRA | +29.56% | 138,412 | 106,833 |
TOTAL | +14.90% | 429,734 | 373,999 |
U.S. sales of the Chevy Silverado were up 34.55 percent to 164,731 units through the first six months of 2021, while GMC Sierra sales rose 40.26 percent to 75,595 units.
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Listening to GM’s guidance they used the shut down time to finish many of the built shy trucks they had sitting around, and “wink, wink” built a batch of the refreshed trucks which will be unveiled next month.
Wish they could have used the time to convert production to the updated models. Would have been ideal.
They don’t have the electronics to build the VIP at scale yet, looking like early next year barring more supply chain / covid problems.
Remember your building trucks.The front bumpers on your 1500s are poor.How much did you save doing this?Ugly stopped me from buying one and I was ready to.
Somebody thanks you for not buying one, because that person bought the one you passed on, and now they have a new truck. Not like GM is having trouble selling their trucks now, building is the problem, not selling…
Your sales table is labeled for Chevy and GMC trucks but the sub-head says Tahoes and Suburbans. The paragraph directly below it quotes different numbers for Silverados and Sierras than the table contains.
Just tell me when can I order a 22 Yukon
still looking for a date for the 22 chev colorado to be oyt
Hideous insect appearing front end. C’mon Chevy, you’re scaring away customers between ugly and design flaws.
When are the refreshed GMC Sierra coming out?
Just tell when I can order a truly refreshed interior 2022 GMC Sierra . Not a 2021 and a 1/2 !!
Dan, we are taking GM vehicles here. When talking ugly and design flaws go to Ford and Ram. Both trucks having recalls 2 years in a row for driveshafts falling out. 2021 and they cannot even build a durable vehicle, unlike GM trucks that are the longest running trucks on the road. I know I know, got to keep the mechanics I’m business that is why we have Ford and Ram.
I have had 2021 2500HD Crew Cab 4×4 LT on order with a dealer for 14+ weeks. Status is built, but “Missing Parts”.
Nobody can tell me when its going to be finished and shipped, but they are currently delivering 2022 models very similar to what I supposedly have coming. D