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| Originally Posted by NYCAP123 You'd think they would have learned after getting nailed in the 70's to stay ahead of the curve. My sympathies to the UAW members. |
"Oshawa Truck Assembly in Canada, which builds the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra, will likely cease production in 2009, while Moraine, Ohio, which builds the Chevy TrailBlazer, GMC Envoy and Saab 9-7x, will end production at the end of the 2010 model run, or sooner, if demand dictates. Janesville, Wisconsin, will cease production of medium-duty trucks by the end of 2009, and of the Tahoe, Suburban and Yukon in 2010, or sooner, if market demand dictates. Chevrolet Kodiak medium-duty truck production will also end in Toluca, Mexico, by the end of this year."
Medium Duty is the Chevrolet Kodiak and its GMC equivalent - GM has been trying to shed the medium duty business to Isuzu for a few years. The TrailBlazer/Envoy/9-7x platform will be 10 years old in 2010, and due to be ended by then (replaced by the "CUV" lineup - Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia, Chevy Traverse, Saturn Outlook), so the Moraine closing is not unexpected. Oshawa has 4 GM plants, the smallest of which was excess light duty truck capacity - GM has three other light duty truck plants building the pickups throughout North America. Similarly, the Janesville Suburban/Tahoe/Yukon capacity in Janesville is excess, with three other plants building those vehicles elsewhere. The primary manufacturing for the big SUVs is now in Arlington, TX, the exclusive build site for the Hybrid versions of those trucks.
The announcement is basically a tightening of a previously vague longer-term timeframe for each of these.
But back to gas prices... hometown station's regular is pushing $4.50; local marina on 05/30/2008 is Diesel $5.09 Gal. 89 Octane Gasoline $4.599 Gal.
They haven't updated the site for this weekend yet.