Talk:List of General Motors factories

Notes from a reader
Southgate, CA was another assembly plant located in Los Angeles area - opened in 1927 as Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly (BOP, for short). Closed in 1980 when H-body production ended (Buick Skyhawk, Oldsmobile Starfire and Pontiac Sunbird (75-80).

Old Oldsmobile Plants (Lansing C & M Plants) closed in 2005 when production of Pontiac Grand AM and Chevrolet Malibu Classic ended. Pontiac G6 is assembled at GM's Orion Township Assembly plant opened in 1983 (was home to Buick Park Avenue, Oldsmobile Aurora, Pontiac Bonneville (til '04). Also assembled first generation "downsized Cadillac DeVille and Coupe deVille when it first opened in 1983.

Pontiac, MI had 2 assembly plants: Pontiac Truck Plant (opened in 1971 and still is in operation) and Pontiac Car Assembly Plant (opened as Oakland and closed in 1988 when Fiero production ended along w/ rear-wheel Grand Prixes and Buick Regals. Old car plant has been converted to other use - believe it is Pontiac Techincal Center now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfoskett (talk • contribs) 03:35, 4 January 2006

What about the Chinese Plants?
Doesn't GM produce in China? Someone should put in the Chinese plants. --Marcwiki9 (talk) 08:28, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

St. Catharines Engine and Components
St. Catharines, Ontario has two plants, an Engine Plant (not scheduled to close as I understand it) and a Components plant which is scheduled to close. Listing shows only the engine plant and is marked as closing on this website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.162.52 (talk) 11:14, 14 July 2006

Buses and trains
Any reason this list shouldn't include GM's former bus and train factories? They were as much a part of GM as the auto factories. Green451 03:19, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

San Luis Potosi
Does anyone know about this plant that will assemble the Aveo for 2010? 842U (talk) 20:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Boisbrand
former Boisbriand, QC, is missing... from 1965 until 2000 - 2001 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.70.120.18 (talk) 20:42, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Detroit Truck Assembly
I do not believe there is a truck assembly plant in Detroit, so I'm going to remove the entry unless someone can find some proof of this. --Criticalthinker (talk) 10:17, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * You are mistaken. There was a Truck and Bus Group facility across the street from the old Fisher Body Plant on Piquette St. in Hamtramck (which made bodies for Cadillac hearses until the 1980's).  It may still be in use by GM from witnessing a somewhat controlled level of urban art painted on the side of it.  I believe it produced chassis for either commercial vans or medium duty trucks.  Whatever use it was providing was shifted to Flint Truck and Bus Group in 1996.Tresmonos (talk) 22:30, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Flint Assembly Plants
Does anyone know more about the old Chevrolet plants in Flint? Would these not be on topic since they were 'Chevrolet' and 'Buick' facilities? If so, we're missing quite a bit of otherwise available information on Chevrolet Rd. Plants 2, 2A, Motor Div. (engine assembly and engine parts plants) and the Pressed Metal Div. (parts plants).; all of these (now) vacant sites being next to Kettering University. Not to mention the Flint V8 Engine Plant on Van Slyke Rd. (closed in 1998, right next to Flint Engine South).Tresmonos (talk) 22:45, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Complete Listing of All factories of all time?
This is a great list, but I am not sure if it is supposed to be a list of current factories and recent factories, or all GM plants of all time, ever. If the latter, it would be a daunting task.

There were a large number of small plants that made parts, such as the trim plant in Syracuse, Guide Lamp in Rochester, etc.

New Departure Hyatt Bearings (NDH) had plants in Bristol, Connecticut and another nearby, making bearings, mostly non-automotive.

The NDH plants are listed under Delco NDH, but Bristol is missing.

Do we include Frigidaire and Electromotive as well?

BTW, the Bristol plant closed many years ago, and is now (ironically) a warehouse for distribution of foreign-made goods.

Joe Patent (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:58, 10 July 2009 (UTC).

South Gate
Southgate, CA (an industrial section of the Los Angeles area) also produced the "DeVille" series at least for the 1979 model year. The following information was listed on www.100megsfree4.com under "Cadillac History".71.231.6.140 (talk) 09:04, 18 January 2010 (UTC)VP

The Wikipedia GM-Plant page, has no listing of this manufacturing facility currently. The site of this former plant is now the newest High School for Los Angeles.

Cadillac's 13-symbol Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) was again on the upper left surface of the cowl, visible through the windshield. Coding was similar to 1977-78. The model year code changed to "9" for 1979. The body type code for Eldorado coupe changed to "57". Assembly plant codes were: "9" Detroit "E" Linden, NJ (Eldorado only) "C" South Gate, CA (DeVille only). Sequence numbers began with 100001 at Detroit (except 450001 for Seville); 600001 at Linden; and 350001 at South Gate. Eldorado's body identification plate was on the top right side of the cowl. Diesel Seville body plates were on the top left side of the cowl.


 * Uh, the South Gate factory is listed on this page and has an article. --Sable232 (talk) 04:39, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Clarification needed
First, I agree with Joe Patent's comment above that we should clarify whether this list is for current (active) factories or all GM factories ever. Also, is Products for current products, or all products? Finally, should Idled be changed to Closed? If this were truly a current factory list, I would assume no. --Vossanova o&lt; 15:58, 16 March 2010 (UTC)


 * According to the intro paragraph it is for all current and former GM plants.
 * Products should be for current products (or the last products for a closed plant). --Sable232 (talk) 01:40, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Toluca
There is no GM assembly plant in Toluca the factory there is Dodge Chrysler. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.110.171.75 (talk) 06:23, 19 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes there was. "The Toluca, Mexico plant, which also builds the Silverado and Sierra, plus the GMC Kodiak ‘monster’ truck, will also close by the end of this year."

Need to differentiate between Closed and Idled
There is still a need to differentiate between plants that are idled and those that are permanently closed. For example, the Janesville, Wisconsin plant is idled but also on standby to possibly reopen. Either a third table listing "Idled" pants could be created, or an additional "Closed" column could be added to the existing "Closed or Sold factories" table and a year could appear in either the Closed or Idled colum. --Formeat —Preceding undated comment added 02:32, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Does Tillsonburg Assembly actually exist?
I was researching my car's VIN, and, according to this page, my car was assembled in the Tillsonburg Assembly plant. The only evidence of this plant's existence I can find is this very page. Nowhere else on the internet (that I can find) is there any reference to a GM plant in Tillsonburg. I didn't see one on Google Earth either. Can anyone confirm or deny the existence of this plant, preferably with a source? If it doesn't exist, where was my Canadian GM vehicle with a nine for the VIN's eleventh digit built? Spooky stuff.

MykalGroll (talk) 21:15, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Poland: Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych or FSO
FSO did assemble Opel cars, but was not really owned by GM. The link for GM Manufacturing Poland went to FSO, but the description was the one of GM's own factory in Gliwice. I have corrected the link, which is now being redirected to Opel Manufacturing Poland, which is actually the moved GM Powertrain Poland in Tychy and expanded. If FSO should continue to be listed as a former GM factory, somebody would have to create that entry in the table. --L.Willms (talk) 13:36, 18 April 2018 (UTC)