No More Gm Trucks From Mexico.

[jeg1]

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/07/18/gm-will...lion/#continued

[Stevens03]

Thats good news for American workers

[C/K Man]

I think that might be incorrect. Last I heard, both Silao and Fort Wayne were going to get the K2XX, in addition to Flint. Flint has been the only plant announced so far to build the next generation trucks, but production will not start until late 2013. Oshawa Truck closed some time ago.

[ChevyTech77]

Flint and Ft. Wayne will be the only two plants assembling GM pickups. Silao is out. They were only building crew cab 1500's anyway which can be built on the same line as the crew cab HD's, quite easily.

[old-chevy-dude]

Flint and Ft. Wayne will be the only two plants assembling GM pickups. Silao is out. They were only building crew cab 1500's anyway which can be built on the same line as the crew cab HD's, quite easily.

 

 

avalanche is built there as well at least mine was.

[pm26]

avalanche is built there as well at least mine was.

 

Hard to tell it was built in Mexico, looking at its astronomical sticker price.

[old-chevy-dude]

avalanche is built there as well at least mine was.

 

Hard to tell it was built in Mexico, looking at its astronomical sticker price.

 

 

 

lol, true, but it's a RPO code on my build sheet:

 

 

MSL - SILAO, MEXICO PLANT

[redjewel2ss]

mine was built in Ft. Wayne

 

i love it when next gen vehicles are announced! they get me all excited

[foghorn23]

Even though my truck is a Mexican built truck and its initial quality seems really good, I'm glad to hear this news. More jobs for the red, white, and blue!

[PhilB]

The guy in the picture in the article is probably trying to replace a headlight bulb.

[C/K Man]

Flint and Ft. Wayne will be the only two plants assembling GM pickups. Silao is out. They were only building crew cab 1500's anyway which can be built on the same line as the crew cab HD's, quite easily.

 

So is Silao going to build K2XX's for Mexico/South America, or are they going to get some other truck product?

[tonygxp]

avalanche is built there as well at least mine was.

 

Hard to tell it was built in Mexico, looking at its astronomical sticker price.

 

 

 

my question is who the hell builds them in Mexico? Given all of them are here maybe some americans went down there lol

 

 

 

it's the politicians fault, not the unions that all of the american companies ran away from this country. You realize that before the unions, the employers mad an average of 300-500 times more than their average worker. once unions became established amost americans, the majority had new homes, cars, money and the employers were making 30-50 times as much. And you know what happened once they started attacking and cutting out the unions. They should've taxed the hell out of all vehicles built elsewhere regardelss of company, same with GE. None of them pay any taxes in the end and it's left to us (what's left of the middle class to suck it up). They cry that the top 2% of the wealthiest americans pay 30% of he taxes, but what they forget to mention is that same top account for 40% of the yearly wages.. you do the math. sorry to interject with that political nonsense but it burns me up seeing these "american car companies" building outside the stats and companies like HYUNDAI, HONDA, BMW, etc. are building them here..

[Daryl LBZ]

Yea if you ask me GM should get a tax break for bringing those jobs from Mexico back to the US.

[rdnkcpa]

Yea if you ask me GM should get a tax break for bringing those jobs from Mexico back to the US.

 

I'm sure they did from the state and local governments. State and local govt's give large employers all kinds of sweetheart deals to attract manuafacturers. GM used to have a pretty sizable factory in Baltimore that made the Astro/Safari vans. GM closed it at the end of the 2005 model year. The People's Republic of Maryland just about gave away the store to attract a new Allison/GM transmission factory just north of Baltimore.

 

If GM got any tax breakes from the Federal Gov't after bailing them out, there would be heads on pikes.

[rdnkcpa]

avalanche is built there as well at least mine was.

 

Hard to tell it was built in Mexico, looking at its astronomical sticker price.

 

 

 

my question is who the hell builds them in Mexico? Given all of them are here maybe some americans went down there lol

 

 

 

it's the politicians fault, not the unions that all of the american companies ran away from this country. You realize that before the unions, the employers mad an average of 300-500 times more than their average worker. once unions became established amost americans, the majority had new homes, cars, money and the employers were making 30-50 times as much. And you know what happened once they started attacking and cutting out the unions. They should've taxed the hell out of all vehicles built elsewhere regardelss of company, same with GE. None of them pay any taxes in the end and it's left to us (what's left of the middle class to suck it up). They cry that the top 2% of the wealthiest americans pay 30% of he taxes, but what they forget to mention is that same top account for 40% of the yearly wages.. you do the math. sorry to interject with that political nonsense but it burns me up seeing these "american car companies" building outside the stats and companies like HYUNDAI, HONDA, BMW, etc. are building them here..

 

 

Import tarriffs sound really good in theory but in the end they don't really help the consumer. If a domestic company produces a car that sells for $1,000.00 and a foreign company sells a comparable car for $1,000, but the gov't imposes an import duty of $300.00 making the price $1,300.00. That will allow the domestic company to artifically raise their prices by another $200-$299 and still be competitive. If the consumer still buys the import with the tarriff, the $300.00 goes to the gov't and is squandered on useless gov't spending. By taking that $300.00 out of the economy it creates a drag on the economy. An individual can spend, save, or invest that $300.00 much more efficiently than the gov't can. Especially the Federal govt. Import duties are a no win situation. In the end the country that you slap import duties on starts hitting your goods as well. Boeing, GE, Cat, Mircrosoft, Apple, Dell, GM, & Ford sell a lot of stuff overseas.

 

I'm not anti-union or pro-union, but Hyundai, Honda, & BMW are all non-UAW factories. BMW built their factory in South Carolina just for that reason. In the end they pay a wage that people are willing to work for. I bet if you ask those workers, they are happy to have steady employment. I was watching a piece about the new Chevy Sonic. The first low-margin sub-compact to be built by GM domestically since the Chevette. They got the UAW to agree to pay the assembly line workers $14.00/hr instead of the regular rate of $28.00/hr. The workers still have health care benefits, so tack on another 25% to the labor rate and that should be right around the final labor cost. The bankruptcy restructring and the new agreed wage rate of $14.00/hr, GM can finally produce a car that can compete with the foreign sub-compacts and still turn a profit. $14.00/hr is only $29,000 a year, is that a livable wage in this day and age? I don't know if it is or not, but I'm glad to see the cars come off the assembly line built by Americans, with an American name plate on the car.