GM: Let's Play Close-A-Plant

[M_TYPE_X]

http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0504/26/A01-162446.htm

http://www.detnews.com/pix/2005/04/26/asec/gmgrid_gfx_042605.jpg

Linden is already going to idle, along with the Lansing "M." So far, I've managed to cut Moraine down a couple of shifts, do a JV with Toyota to build Camrys in Hamtramck, spooked the UAW in Lordstown and Doraville, and make threatening noises to Spring Hill and Oshawa-II.

This is fun chit! http://forums.freshalloy.com/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

[SHIFT_6speeds]

Any plant that makes ass-enders, needs to close shop. http://forums.freshalloy.com/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Release]

Wentzville

[M_TYPE_X]

Wentzville



No rhyme, no reason, just a vote? j00r so much bettar than that!

Yeah, so the Fremont (CA) joint-venture with TOYOTA isn't listed. The plant isn't technically part of GM anymore eh?

[Release]

Wentzville



No rhyme, no reason, just a vote? j00r so much bettar than that!



Just take a look at what vehicle they build at that plant http://forums.freshalloy.com/images/graemlins/tongue.gif http://forums.freshalloy.com/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[TroopaFanatic]

The NUMMI Plant never was a GM Plant - hence a Joint Venture.

[fjm1]

Arlington or Janesville. Flip a coin. Demand is going down the toilet for Tahoe/Suburban.

Shut Flint II and send production to Wentzville and/or Shreveport

And for god's sake put the SSR out of it's misery.

[M_TYPE_X]

Arlington or Janesville. Flip a coin. Demand is going down the toilet for Tahoe/Suburban.

Shut Flint II and send production to Wentzville and/or Shreveport

And for god's sake put the SSR out of it's misery.



Buddy, you have something against Northerners, perchance?
You want to close Flint II, Lansing Craft, and Janesville?!
I'm calling Levin! and Sensenbrenner!
Senator Pikachu, I call you!

I told j00 this game was funtima to the maxtima.

[M_TYPE_X]

The NUMMI Plant never was a GM Plant - hence a Joint Venture.



Guess it came off of GM's rolls when they closed it down way back when before converting (selling?) it to the JV group.

[indys2k]

Why are they building anything in North America anymore? Don't they know it needs to go to China? http://forums.freshalloy.com/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[fjm1]

Buddy, you have something against Northerners, perchance?
You want to close Flint II, Lansing Craft, and Janesville?!
I'm calling Levin! and Sensenbrenner!
Senator Pikachu, I call you!

I told j00 this game was funtima to the maxtima.



Fine, broker some new tax cuts based upon the implied threat. At least get a free steak dinner out of it.


Do a joint veture to create a cross between the SSR and the Scion Xb. The Scion-athon of profit and the General can synergize toward the fastest toaster shaped vehicle ever. It's a token effort costing minimal.

Labor costs in the north are higher. Nothing personal, just business. With Linden gone the writing is on the wall. Some just choose to ignore the graffitti.

[MaximaOrange]

Sad the Astro and Safari are going away. They've been producing them for so long, I think it's the closest GM can get to perfection.

Who knows what a Tiltmaster and Forward are? Those names don't exactly elicit confidence when placed one after the other.

I say GM should buy up half of Michigan, set up centralized planned communities for their employees and consolidate their plants and have them equidistant from the communities. In the planned community, even the non-manufacturing population would be GM employees, including restaurant workers, garbage men, postal service, teachers, bus drivers, mayor, etc. Kids would be bar coded and indentured, getting as little or as much education as GM chooses and working for GM the rest of their lives and be happy with it.

Or does GM already do that.....

[M_TYPE_X]

I say GM should buy up half of Michigan, set up centralized planned communities for their employees and consolidate their plants and have them equidistant from the communities. In the planned community, even the non-manufacturing population would be GM employees, including restaurant workers, garbage men, postal service, teachers, bus drivers, mayor, etc. Kids would be bar coded and indentured, getting as little or as much education as GM chooses and working for GM the rest of their lives and be happy with it.

Or does GM already do that.....



Costs too much. They do in Mexico now instead of Flint.

[M_TYPE_X]

Labor costs in the north are higher. Nothing personal, just business. With Linden gone the writing is on the wall. Some just choose to ignore the graffitti.



No, they're cutting the east coast plants there because the only reason to have them was to have more states' congressional support. But the coastal lawmakers haven't been very supportive of Detroit, so GM/Ford/Chrysler don't mind closing old plants there and reinvesting in the Midwest and Dirty South.

[WhereHaveYouBeen]

Labor costs in the north are higher. Nothing personal, just business. With Linden gone the writing is on the wall. Some just choose to ignore the graffitti.



No, they're cutting the east coast plants there because the only reason to have them was to have more states' congressional support. But the coastal lawmakers haven't been very supportive of Detroit, so GM/Ford/Chrysler don't mind closing old plants there and reinvesting in the Midwest and Dirty South.



You know, you just may be right on this one.

[M_TYPE_X]

Labor costs in the north are higher. Nothing personal, just business. With Linden gone the writing is on the wall. Some just choose to ignore the graffitti.



No, they're cutting the east coast plants there because the only reason to have them was to have more states' congressional support. But the coastal lawmakers haven't been very supportive of Detroit, so GM/Ford/Chrysler don't mind closing old plants there and reinvesting in the Midwest and Dirty South.



You know, you just may be right on this one.



What do you mean "may be" ?? This is my very own "plant location theorem" we're talking about. Why else build plants in Maryland and New Jersey? It's not like the cost of doing business there is low enough to put up with the east-coasters.

GM built there back in the day due to infrastructure and the anti-unionism of the South. Now, whatever benefits have long disappeared. Every granola eater outside of Michigan has 2 Camrys either in the garage or on the left lane of some godforsaken intar-state at 60 mph with two completely asymmetrical "God save the troops" ribbon-stickers.

Am I disgusted? You bet! Back in Michigan for the weekend, and wondering why I left in the first damn place.