General Motors Cancels Contracts For Cruze/Volt Engine Plant
Posted by Admin on February 2, 2009
Cchevy Cruze with Its Engine
The bad news just keeps coming down the pipe for General Motors and Flint, Michigan. It has been reported that construction contracts for the new $370 million engine plant that was going up in Flint have been canceled. In fact, GM actually stopped work on the project in early December. The plant was to produce the new 1.4-liter 4 cylinder engine for the 2011 Chevy Cruze and Volt. GM spokeswoman Sharon Basel has said to reporters that they always had the intention for the engines of the early production runs of the Cruze and Volt to be supplied from a European facility that already builds variants of GM’s so-called “Family 0″ powertrains. The Flint plant would not have been ready for start of production of Cruze next spring.
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