GM to shift more production to China - will it affect Holden?

[VW Golf R32]

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090509/AUTO01/905090337/GM-plans-to-shift-overseas-production

[Ghia351]

The saving grace for Holden is the phrase
The automaker plans to reduce foreign production for U.S. sales in Australia, Canada, Sweden and Austria. GM also predicts Mexican production of vehicles to be sent to the U.S. will rise from 317,763 in 2010 to 501,316 in 2014.. As long as the new small car can be exported everywhere else then it's really old news considering we already new Pontiac is marked to go while VE's to Mideast are branded Chevy anyway. I think it's likely no VE's will eventually be shipped to the US.

[Big_Valven]

The saving grace for Holden is the phrase...

That's the opposite of what we want. Less exports from Australia.

[Road Warrior]

That's the opposite of what we want. Less exports from Australia.

But what he's saying is that we already knew the G8 was a goner anyway - with no other Zeta based cars slated to go to the US because they were all canned, this announcement doesn't mean much to Holden's continued production.

The REAL issue, which I have touched on before, is those Chinese plants producing Zeta cars for markets other than the US (read: Middle East, Brazil, Australia). That is Holden's real threat.

[VW Golf R32]

But what he's saying is that we already knew the G8 was a goner anyway - with no other Zeta based cars slated to go to the US because they were all canned, this announcement doesn't mean much to Holden's continued production.

The REAL issue, which I have touched on before, is those Chinese plants producing Zeta cars for markets other than the US (read: Middle East, Brazil, Australia). That is Holden's real threat.

Shanghai GM have been building zeta based vehicles since 2007 so the danger already exists:

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/forum/general-automotive/32230-buick-park-lane-holden-statesman.html