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2 hours ago, 64BAwagon said:

The one I dont get is Mark Reuss. 

 

He is a great product man.  He is also a company man and goes with the program.  Do you think he might be next in line?

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I heard she was on track for over 80 million this year by exercising stock options not to mention she is on the board of Disney, as if she needs a side hustle. I should have paid more attention to her

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The Flint plant has been rolled back to 5 day per week production as of last week. This includes personnel assigned to pre shipping repairs. This will definitely effect the GMC orders to a greater ext

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I grew up in GM's backyard so a lot of people in the area worked for them. During high school and after I worked at an industrial supply house right next to the assembly plant in Pontiac, some of the

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1 hour ago, C/K Man said:

 

He is a great product man.  He is also a company man and goes with the program.  Do you think he might be next in line?

What was Barra's background, in the legal or financial side?

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GM has done this many times in the past. Typically, it's because there are too many vehicles in inventory across the dealerships.

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14 minutes ago, bruceb58 said:

GM has done this many times in the past. Typically, it's because there are too many vehicles in inventory across the dealerships.

I'm sure @ regular selling rates, weekday production should cover it. No sense to increase the labour costs on vehicles that aren't needed.

 

Sometimes if there was major downtime thru a week, an unscheduled Sat' would make up production losses.

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On 11/20/2024 at 9:05 PM, revrnd said:

What was Barra's background, in the legal or financial side?

 

Neither.

 

Mary Barra has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from GMI

Here first job as GM was as a co-op student.

 

Mary Barra - Wikipedia

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Took a long time, but many/most  dealer lots are filled again. 

Sales program/discounts are re-appearing -- in this area, especially on HD's.

 

No need for the continuous overtime. 

 

 

 

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31 minutes ago, redwngr said:

 

Neither.

 

Mary Barra has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from GMI

Here first job as GM was as a co-op student.

 

Mary Barra - Wikipedia

I think that was the entry level job for salaried climbers. I remember Carlisle's resume when he was made the GM of Canada 'big cheese'. I had just retired (plant closure in 2009) & he moved to Canada. He started out as a GMI co-op student in the Truck Plant in the 80s when I was there after finishing my apprenticeship.

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Chatting w/ a trades guy (electrician) that is still in the plant (Oshawa) last night. He said they only occasionally work a Sat'.

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23 hours ago, 64BAwagon said:

Thats because Oshawa only builds the easy ones.😉  Flint has all of the GMC line plus all of the Chassis cabs as well as the regular Chevrolets. 

 

Not the 1st time production was simplified. Between the time I left the plant in 1988 & returned in '97, regular cab production was removed. Im not sure if we were still building extended cab RO5s (duallies) or not. Then a few years later I noticed the floor pan piercing tool being removed. It was for the manual transfer case shifter. I asked the tool processor for the area what was up with that. 'We were only building 4 or 5 a day, so those orders are going to Flint.'

 

I also recall drill jigs near the end of the Body Shop area for 1 of the mirror options (holes were required in the doors). I dont think they were ever used. I'm not sure if there were for a West Coast style mirror as any of the 'camper/towing' mirrors mounted in the same location as the standard mirror.

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We did build the QS4 trucks. Would it be safe to say that was the only truck plant building them?

 

Until the article was posted elsewhere, I dint know that the option was available on the big SUVs. And here I thought the hybrid Tahoes were rare...

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No doubt the EV mandates are going to restrict the number of ICS trucks sold going forward (unless the mandates are rolled back....).  Going by my local GMC dealer this moring and seeing new Hummers leads me to belive GM might be in better shape than other manufacturers as they have EV's on the ground and they are selling.  Also, I wonder if bringing 'Bright Drop' under the Chevrolet brand will help as well.  Isuzu has BEV commercial trucks on the way, maybe some will be sold as Chevy LCF's.

 

Really thinking about ordering a new Sierra 3500HD.  I have the time and I am thinking of getting one with the L8T and Allison 10 speed.

 

I see Ram may have the new 7.2L Cummins soon, and I imagine the 8.3L Duramax can't be too far off now.  Wonder if there is any thought of a larger gasoline engine.  One was rumored 4 or 5 years ago.

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The L8T is being changed significantly in 2027 and not for the better. A large EGR and less HP.  At this point the Govt is trying to ruin the L8T like they did the 5.3 and 6.2

The 8.3 Dmax is still kind of foggy but I have heard it will have a much lower operating RPM than the L5P and lots of new technology to meet emissions (translates a drop in reliability) 

Lots of issues at the plant zero in Hamtramck. 

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15 hours ago, C/K Man said:

No doubt the EV mandates are going to restrict the number of ICS trucks sold going forward (unless the mandates are rolled back....).  Going by my local GMC dealer this moring and seeing new Hummers leads me to belive GM might be in better shape than other manufacturers as they have EV's on the ground and they are selling.  [b]Also, I wonder if bringing 'Bright Drop' under the Chevrolet brand will help as well.[/b]  Isuzu has BEV commercial trucks on the way, maybe some will be sold as Chevy LCF's.

 

 

Why not drop that name completely? How about Chevrolet Electrovan? WTF is a Bright Drop? It sure doesn't describe what the vehicle is. Sounds like a Chinese outfit on Amazon selling gizmos rather than a commercial van. Who was the idiot executive that signed off on this? The exec at the start of [i]Planes Trains and Automobiles[/i]?

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I was in Pontiac back in October and there were hundreds of them (brightdrops)  in the parking lot of the Propulsion HQ building (the old Pontiac motors admin bldg) Many with Fedex and Amazon lettering. 

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