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General Motors has announced it will pause production of the Chevy Equinox crossover at the CAMI Assembly plant in Ontario for two months due to a semi conductor shortage.
A GM spokesperson confirmed to
AutomotiveNews Canada today that the assembly plant will be closed until at least the end of June while GM addresses the chip shortage.
“CAMI employees were notified this morning they will remain down through at least the week of June 28,” GM Canada spokeswoman Jennifer Wright told the publication over email. “We continue to work closely with our supply base to mitigate the short-term impact and leverage every available semiconductor to build and ship our most popular and in-demand products, including full-size trucks and SUVs for our customers.”
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Everything is bigger in Texas, as the saying goes. And some Canadian dealership groups are crossing the border to get a piece of the state s fast-growing markets.
In December, Steele Auto Group of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, acquired two Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge-Ram dealerships in Texas, which followed the purchase of a Chevrolet-Buick-GMC store outside San Antonio earlier in the year. Foundation Automotive Corp. of Calgary has expanded rapidly into the U.S. since forming in 2017, with seven new-vehicle dealerships and a national headquarters in Texas.
Steele COO Kim Day and Foundation CEO Kevin Kutschinski told
Automotive News Canada that Texas rapid growth is a big attraction. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the state s population grew 15 percent to 29 million between 2010 and 2019.
Dealer groups, parts suppliers, and nearly every manufacturer – virtually every part of this industry, which employs hundreds of thousands of people in Canada – sought and received assistance to keep their workers in place. The hardest-hit period was during the initial lock-downs in March and April of 2020. The bulked-up subsidy allowed employers to keep staff on as new protocols were put into action, even as sales initially slumped to record lows.
While companies contacted by
Automotive News Canada demurred when asked how much they’d received from the compensation fund, the billions paid out by the feds kept a vital industry on its feet with barely a hiccup. It’s righted itself faster than expected, and that seamless connection to monetary aid kept doors open and people working. Terrifying times with amazing results.