GM to spend $260 million on Toledo Plant: 8-Speed Tranny READ TO GO!!!!

[Cmicasa the Great XvX]

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DETROIT -- General Motors Co. on Tuesday is expected to announce it will spend $260 million to start building fuel-efficient, eight-speed transmissions at its Toledo transmission plant, according to media reports today.

The plant will add as many as 400 jobs and production of the transmissions is to start late next year, according to The Blade newspaper of Toledo, Ohio, and the Associated Press.

GM CEO Dan Akerson is expected to make the announcement at the plant. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, UAW Vice President Joe Ashton and other GM and government officials also are scheduled to attend the 1:30 p.m. event.

GM declined to comment on the planned announcement. The new workers would be paid $14 an hour, about half of what veteran employees make, the AP reported.

GM does not build noncommercial vehicles with eight-speed transmissions, but the company unveiled a prototype for the eight-speed electric hybrid Buick Enclave last month at the Shanghai auto show.

The Toledo plant produces the Hydra-matic 6L80 rear-wheel-drive six-speed transmission used in the Chevrolet Corvette and the Cadillac Escalade, and the global front-wheel-drive six-speed used in the Chevrolet Cruze and Malibu.

It is unclear which vehicles will get the new eight-speed transmission, or whether the transmission will be fwd or rwd.

In February 2006, GM spent $540 million on the plant to build the six-speed rwd transmission. In May 2007, the company spent $332 million on the factory to build the six-speed fwd transmission.


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[BackinBlackSS/RS]

Great news for lots of reasons!

[FenwickHockey65]

the company unveiled a prototype for the eight-speed electric hybrid Buick Enclave last month at the Shanghai auto show.

LOLWUT.



Envision, you mean?

[BackinBlackSS/RS]

WTF???????

[FenwickHockey65]

There's no such thing as a hybrid Enclave with an 8-speed transmission (unless GM has been hiding something, which they can be good at). The Envision Concept, on the other hand, was unveiled at Shanghai last month and is a hybrid, probably with the 8-speed they're referring to.

[Kyle2k]

I think you got the wrong picture there Fen.... lol

[BackinBlackSS/RS]

Omg lmfao

[Noturday]

Originally Posted by Kyle2k

I think you got the wrong picture there Fen.... lol

+1, wasn't expecting that when i opened this thread

[Kyle2k]

Originally Posted by Noturday

+1, wasn't expecting that when i opened this thread

Apparently she is having a good time...

[FenwickHockey65]

Okay, that's pulled right off Autoblog's website. Not sure what was posted earlier.

[DGthe3]

The pic you posted wasn't off Autoblog! No clue what site it was from, but most certainly it wasn't Autoblog. Try again perhaps?

[derklug]

Gone now, but kind of an eye-opener. What is the upper llimit for automotive transmission gearing? I don't want to shift 4 times to get to 35 in normal traffic.

[FenwickHockey65]

Originally Posted by DGthe3

The pic you posted wasn't off Autoblog! No clue what site it was from, but most certainly it wasn't Autoblog. Try again perhaps?

I put up a new one. I don't remember where I pulled the other one, but it was an automotive website.

[DGthe3]

Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65

I put up a new one. I don't remember where I pulled the other one, but it was an automotive website.

Maybe they have some sort of anti-hotlink software ... either that, or you were looking at more than cars when you posted that picture, lol