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Posted on 12/10/2015 3:54:17 PM PST by Lorianne
GM said it will sell the Chinese-built Buick Envision, a crossover SUV, in the U.S. market starting next year.
The UAW attacked the plan, saying it was "a slap in the face." It said GM should reconsider its plans and instead build a version for the U.S. market at a U.S. plant.
"The men and women of GM and the American taxpayers who invested so much in GM's future deserve better," said the union.
GM agreed in its latest labor deal to invest $8.3 billion in its U.S. plants over the next four years to create or retain an estimated 3,300 jobs. It increased U.S. employment by 14,000, or 18%, between the end of 2009 and the end of last year.
GM already has big operations in China, and sells more cars there than in the United States. Since 2011 it has exported about 157,000 cars from its U.S. plants to China. Buick has been a very successful brand in China.
Automakers prefer to build cars close to where they're sold. Even Asian automakers such at Toyota (TM) and Honda (HMC) build most of the cars they sell in the United States at their U.S. plants. But critics of U.S.-China trade policy are concerned that China, with lower labor costs, could steal share in the U.S.
GM says the Envision was designed in Michigan. It says it will fit well into the Buick lineup between two other crossover offerings, the Encore and the Enclave.
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We really, really, really need to stop sending all of our businesses to China.
For real.
Bring back American manufacturing.
Vega, Chevette, Cimarron, Citation...
Just for starters.
GM Buick Envision SUV Made In China To Be Sold In US Next Year, Despite UAW Resistance
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/113615/20151207/gm-buick-envision-suv-made-in-china-to-be-sold-in-us-next-year-despite-uaw-resistance.htm
Why General Motors Is Building Its New Buick in China
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/12/07/why-general-motors-is-building-its-new-buick-in-ch.aspx
You drive it and half an hour later you want to drive it again.
By six US citizens and dozens of H1-B Visa imports from India ?
We really, really, really need to stop bailing out companies that stab us in the back.
I expect this will be a decent quality vehicle. GM sells more cars in China than any other manufacturer, and it goes up against the Japanese marques, which have a rep for reliability, as they do elsewhere.
LOL ... probably
|That is funny right there, I don’t care who you are!!! LOL
F*** GM. F*** Chrysler. Only one American automobile manufacturer left in the USA.
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It drives sideways.
Ha ha, jokes on you UAW.
Your jobs are all toast, only a matter of time.
Welcome to the: Obama Summer of Recovery Unemployment is at 5.1% Club.
Btw, I wouldn’t by a GM if you paid me.
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Buick late 60s (early 70s?)
LOL!
Is this 400th or 401st time this article has been posted?
And I thought (after many GM cars- yes, I am stupid) that GM quality could not get worse.
Buick Invasion, sounds like a winner.
I would agree with that! I still have the daggers in my back from my Pontiac Transam.
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