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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGM Sees Overcapacity Fiasco in China, Hopes Americans Will Buy Lots of Chinese-Made Buicks
LEAKED: GM Sees Overcapacity Fiasco in China, Hopes Americans Will Buy Lots of Chinese-Made Buicks
by Wolf Richter August 19, 2015
We do not comment on future product speculation, a Buick spokesman said, refusing to confirm the leaks, but didnt deny them either.
GM sold 919,582 Buicks in China in 2014, four times as many as it sold in the US! GM manufactures in China nearly all vehicles it sells there. About half of GMs earnings are generated in China. After having been bailed out of bankruptcy by US taxpayers to keep the manufacturing base in the US, GM bet big on China.
In July, GM announced that it would invest an additional $5 billion in China to develop a new family of Chevrolet vehicles with its Chinese partner SAIC. All global automakers have invested billions in China, year after year, to build new plants, add capacity, and increase production. More new plants are coming. More capacity is being added. It all worked out because automakers sold these vehicles in China as fast as they could make them.
Until this year. But now supply and capacity are still rising. Demand has started to fall. Inventories are piling up. A vicious price war has broken out. And the bane of the auto industry, overcapacity, is suddenly looming ominously above them all.
Overcapacity tore up the industry in the US. It tore up the industry in the EU. Its a deadly disease for automakers. It led to bankruptcies and bailouts. And now its spreading in China.
But there is a solution, apparently: exporting China-made vehicles to the US. .................(more)
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/08/19/leaked-gm-sees-overcapacity-fiasco-in-china-hopes-americans-buy-chinese-made-buicks-shift-manufacturing-to-china/
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GM Sees Overcapacity Fiasco in China, Hopes Americans Will Buy Lots of Chinese-Made Buicks (Original Post)
marmar
Aug 2015
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. Yeah, right GM. I'll buy a Chinese-Made Buick to help you as you suck American
jobs out of the country. Screw you.
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)2. Why are jobs making cars for Chinese people American jobs?
The nameplate? So all these Toyotas made in Indiana and Nissans in Tennessee are Japanese jobs sucked out of that country?
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)4. Good point! n/t
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)3. Chinese made garbage AND a Buick, where can I find one?
Walmart, maybe?
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)5. No doubt this was their intent all along
It's been repeated time and time again by US-based multinationals.
Build new production capacity facilities overseas, or in job-poaching cheap labor red states; stating they are to satisfy demand abroad.
Whine about over capacity at a hint of a down-turn, then close down the existing "legacy" facilities.