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The project was first announced in 2015 and replaces the old body shop. The new body shop is a separate building that is connected to both the Flint Metal Center stamping plant to the south and the main assembly plant to the northeast. The new body shop was scheduled to open in 2018. GM has spent $2.8 billion on the complex since 2009. [8]
The Chevrolet Task Force (or in some cases, Task-Force) is a light-duty (3100-short bed & 3200-long bed) and medium-duty (3600) truck series by Chevrolet introduced in 1955, its first major redesign since 1947.
The Framingham location was the center of several contentious tug-of-wars between Governor Michael Dukakis and local politician Anthony M. Colonna.After the town refused to sell General Motors a 35-acre (140,000 m 2), town-owned piece of property GM desired for the construction of a new paint and plastics facility, [3] Dukakis used the state's power of eminent domain to take the property from ...
In January 2013, GM announced $600 million in upgrades to the plant including a new 450,000-square-foot (42,000 m 2) paint shop and a new stamping press. The renovations were aimed at reducing water consumption and chemical waste, and were not expected to interfere with production. [ 2 ]
In 1926, GM formed an Australian subsidiary, General Motors (Australia) Limited, which imported, distributed and assembled General Motors products. [147] The bodies were manufactured at an Adelaide -based family business, Holden's Motor Body Builders, which had built up its operations with the help of tariff protection and amicable relations ...
In the 1980s under former CEO Roger Smith, GM actually did something right -- developing its Saturn line which for a few years offered a vehicle ownership experience that beat Toyota Motors Co.s ...
The plant produced its first pickup truck on May 1, 1963, pilot production of cars started on July 29, 1963, and regular car production started on September 3, 1963. [ 3 ] The 411-acre (166 ha) plant produced GM A platform vehicles under the Chevrolet , Pontiac , Buick , Oldsmobile , and GMC brands for the Western United States. [ 3 ]
Since GM was focused on profiting from finance, it did not really care that much about building better vehicles. In January 2006, I doubted that GM could transform Why GM failed: 4.