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Where is GM selling all those SUVs?


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  • John Goreham
    Contributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com
    8/17/2015
    General motors is swamped with work at the Arlington, TX full-size SUV plant. The plant is so busy it added a third shift, then the occasional Saturday, then this week announced it would go to a six-day work week. This seems to imply that GM is selling Tahoes, Escalades, Suburbans, and Yukons all over the U.S. in ever increasing numbers. As our sharp-eyed forum member SnakeEyes pointed out after our story on the Arlington Plant last night, that is not the case. As a matter of fact, the big SUVs are way behind last year's sales figures here in the U.S. market.

Here is a quick breakdown of the present year to date sales of each in the U.S:
Yukon XL Down 42%
Yukon Down 14%
Escalade Down 32% YTD
Escalade ESV Down 11%
Tahoe - Down 23%
Suburban - Down 17%

We were left scratching our heads. Yes, we all know that GM sells products outside the U.S., but we also know that Europeans turn their noses up at these vehicles which are about 1.5 times the width of their back-roads and that the Chinese pronounce the word car "Byu-Wick". Rather than speculate, we reached out to General Motors. Jennifer Ecclestone, handles communications for the Western U.S. and Arlington Plant and she replied to our inquiry in under an hour. The simple answer is that sales in Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East are responsible for all that overtime the good folks at UAW Local 276 busy nights and weekends. It is nice to see an American company building an expensive, high-quality product for export to other countries.


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