AP source: GM to build small car in Michigan

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20090625/D991U7D80.html

Jun 25, 4:53 PM (ET)

By TOM KRISHER

DETROIT (AP) - Michigan has won the high-stakes competition with two other states to build General Motors Corp.'s next-generation subcompact car, a person briefed on the decision said Thursday.

The announcement that the car will be built at a retooled midsize car factory in Orion Township near Pontiac will come Friday, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan has not been made public. It will save about 1,200 jobs at the factory, which had been slated to shut down later this year.

GM spokeswoman Sherrie Childers Arb declined to comment on whether GM had made a decision.

The Orion Township plant, about 40 miles north of Detroit, had been in competition with GM factories in Janesville, Wis., and Spring Hill, Tenn., to build the car.

The Orion plant now makes the Pontiac G6 and Chevrolet Malibu midsize cars, which also are made at a factory in Kansas City, Kan.

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[d_r]

1. WOOOOHOOOOO

sorry for that Corker and Wamp, just keep loaning and giving money to nissan and vw etc. you'll make it up.