Some 2018 Truck Assembly to Canada

Likarok · May 3, 2017

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/general-motors-unifor-truck-1.4095096

According to this news at least some final assembly coming to Canada of what sounds like 2018 trucks.

newdude · May 3, 2017

This was announced sometime late last year by GM, however the interesting bit about the update that was put out was the potential need for a second shift before they've even started production. That is the news.

L86 All Terrain · May 4, 2017

I heard they will be manfacturing the rolling chassis and having the body shipped up from Fort Wayne. Comes at a great time as they just layed off over 400 employees moving the Crossover facility to Mexico. I will have a great sence of pride knowing my truck came from Oshawa, still no news on which models will be produced there, Silverado/Sierra or Canyon/Colorado. This will likely mean more Fort Wayne trucks for American consumers, and much less produced in Mexico. Maybe the southern States will get to drive a US made truck again. Exciting news none-the-less.

Likarok · May 4, 2017

Sending chassis from one plant to another seems a little bizarre. The Oshawa plant has a good track record for what they build. A while back they had two plants building cars and trucks there. As Canadians let's hope they get back to that.

revrnd · June 12, 2017

I would think that they will begin production w/ the T1XX truck. No sense in starting w/ the K2XX which is soon to end.

Stupid mistake to close Oshawa Truck in '09 (see my sig). My father was involved with setting up the plant in '64 & '65. He worked in the tooling department until he retired in '86 & wanted to see the last truck off the line. I had no interest.

Oshawa Car has been doing final assembly of the Equinox for a few years. B-I-W shipped by truck, painted & then hardware & chassis added.

Look for a 2 as the first character on the VIN.

newdude · June 12, 2017

I would think that they will begin production w/ the T1XX truck. No sense in starting w/ the K2XX which is soon to end.

Stupid mistake to close Oshawa Truck in '09 (see my sig). My father was involved with setting up the plant in '64 & '65. He worked in the tooling department until he retired in '86 & wanted to see the last truck off the line. I had no interest.

Oshawa Car has been doing final assembly of the Equinox for a few years. B-I-W shipped by truck, painted & then hardware & chassis added.

Look for a 2 as the first character on the VIN.

Most of the ones I've seen at work since I've been here are all Canuck made, be it CAMI or Oshawa. Once in a while a 1GNAL (Springhill, TN) will show up but 2GNAL/2GNFL is the most prominent.

Heck...on the Camaro6 forum, when the Gen 6 launched, there were and still are some issues for Camaro out of Lansing. Sad because I think Oshawa put the Gen 5 car together much better than our own US boys do the 6th Gen. My brother's 2014 SS is 20,000 miles and zero issues. Even at work, Gen 5 Camaro issues here are slim.

revrnd · June 12, 2017

The bean counters wanted all the RWD cars built in 1 plant. So much for the 'flex' capabilities of being able to build different platforms on a single line.

But then again it's GM...