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Originally Posted by GMJIM69
I hate to break to you sad sacks out there but the Arlington TX SUV plant will be blowing and going WITH APPROVED COMPANY OVERTIME in December. This is America where LOW GAS PRICES = HIGH SUV SALES. This came straight from the Arlington TX. GM Plant today so it must be so.
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Yep, but that is also because they have closed or are close to closing about ALL other GMT900 SUV plants. Basically Arlington is the last man standing and has to pick up the slack of the plants that closed.
If SUV sales happened to go back to normal as we come out of this downturn with cheaper gas than ever, GM is going to have cost structure problems again if they have started to retool some of the shuttered SUV and truck plants and have to do a 180 to get SUV's and trucks going in them again. It will screw with Toyota's margins also though as I am sure they will encounter similar costs trying to adjust. Companies like Honda and Hyundai are the least affected as they don't really even make trucks or SUV's much other than ones based on cars that come down lines next to the cars.