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Last week, General Motors announced that it’s adding a second shift at the Bowling Green Plant in Kentucky that makes the Chevrolet Corvette to cope with the demand for the soon-to-arrive C8. This got us wondering if GM is planning to further increase production in the future and make a second mid-ship sports car next to the Corvette at Bowling Green, maybe something that could be marketed as an American MR2 of sorts or something else entirely.
It’s been four years since GM announced it will spend $439 million to update the Bowling Green plant in order to implement “dry scrubber booth technology with limestone handling system designed to eliminate sludge water, light-emitting diode (LED) lighting to improve visual inspection, FANUC robots that can apply paint more efficiently and high-efficiency baking ovens for better paint finish while using less energy.” That was just a part of a more than $900 million investment plan greenlighted by GM before we even started seeing the first C8 mules on the road.
Now, off the heels of the announcement that the Corvette C8 will be unveiled at a standalone event on July 18, 2019, GM CEO Mary Barra and other members of GM’s and Chevy’s top brass announced that a second shift will be added and 400 hourly jobs will be up for grabs over the +900 people that currently work at the Bowling Green Plant. Can this announcement tell us more about the giant automaker’s plans other than the mere fact that it’s attempting to build C8s in droves? Let’s investigate.
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