General Motors has recently announced a new $500 million investment into the GM Arlington plant in Texas. This funding effort will be used to help facilitate production of GM’s next generation of full-sized SUVs.
“Today we are announcing plans for a significant investment in Arlington to strengthen our industry-leading full-size SUV business,” GM Global Manufacturing and Sustainability Executive Vice President Gerald Johnson was quoted as saying. “Preparing the plant to produce future ICE full-size SUVs reflects our commitment to our valued customers and the efforts of the dedicated Arlington Assembly employees, who have been breaking production records this year.”
Thanks to this new investment, the Arlington plant will receive new tooling and equipment in its stamping, body shop and general assembly areas.
“For more than half a century, Arlington Assembly has played an integral role in the economic success of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metroplex,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a prepared statement. “General Motors’ over half-a-billion-dollar investment in their North Texas assembly plant will strengthen Texas’ position as a global manufacturing leader and continue creating good-paying jobs for generations of Texans. I thank General Motors for continuing to invest in our state’s diverse, highly skilled workforce and look forward to maintaining the strong partnership between this great company and the State of Texas.”
With this recent announcement, General Motors’ investments into U.S. manufacturing and parts distribution facilities since 2013 now totals more than $31 billion. More specifically, the Arlington plant has received nearly $2 billion during the same timeframe.
As a reminder, the GM Arlington plant is responsible for the production of The General’s entire full-size SUV portfolio, which includes the following:
- Chevy Tahoe
- Chevy Suburban
- GMC Yukon
- GMC Yukon XL
- Cadillac Escalade
- Cadillac Escalade ESV
- Cadillac Escalade-V
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Comments
Drop in the bucket when your margins per unit are at least $20,000. Make that $500M back in a month or two of sales
Nice move..
Glad to see this investment.
COMMON SENSE!!!!!! is coming back.
It has always been there. GM is building EV models but if you note they are keeping the ICE versions of the same models as long as they can. GM will be two companies one ICE and one EV. This way no matter what the out come they have a model for it.
Glad to see the new factory will be building ICE SUVS.
No mention of EVs.
C8.R: I like what you’re saying, but in my state with a one-party supermajority, ICE vehicles are banned after 2035.
I ordered a new 2023 premiere suburban 5 months ago and it has not been delivered or even in production. I cancelled the order and will drive my 2020 premiere which has 91k on it now (20k) more miles since I ordered and told the seller to put me in for the 2024. I had to switch to Fords on my truck fleet because GM wasn’t producing. Blaming the Chinese is not a good excuse for this. I have driven suburbans since 1981 and keep them 3 to 4 years so I am a dedicated GM person. Just hope they get their act together again.