GM to move Camaro production from Ontario to Lansing plant
By Melissa Burden
The Detroit News
The Camaro is a rear-wheel drive vehicle, as are the CTS and ATS, built in Lansing. (GM)
General Motors Co. will move production of the Chevrolet Camaro from Oshawa, Ontario, to its Lansing Grand River plant, the automaker announced Wednesday.
GM will move the next generation of the muscle car from Ontario to the Lansing plant, which builds the Cadillac CTS and ATS. The shift is likely to occur within a few years.
The last all-new Camaro came for the 2010 model year.
GM, in a statement, cited lower capital investments and production efficiencies as a key factor for moving production of the vehicle.
The Camaro is built in Oshawa on the same line as the Buick Regal and Cadillac XTS. Oshawa will build the next-generation Chevrolet Impala. Those cars are front-wheel drive models.
The Camaro is a rear-wheel drive vehicle, as are the CTS and ATS, built in Lansing, currently a two-shift plant.
Sales of the Camaro year-to-date through November are down 3.6 percent compared with the same period in 2011.
Karl Henkel contributed.
mburden@detnews.com
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