The closure of the Hamtramck GM plant is delayed, the Cadillac CT6-V gets a suspension of execution as a result

General Motors announced Friday that its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, scheduled to close in June this year, will continue to manufacture vehicles until January 2020.

The automaker had originally announced in November that the Hamtramck plant among four other North American factories (three in the US and one in Canada) would be "unallocated" in 2019, their production lines if they are stopped. GM explained that this was part of a global restructuring aimed at getting rid of models that are selling poorly and freeing up money to invest in the development and manufacture of electric vehicles.

As part of the production stoppage of the Hamtramck plant, the vehicles it manufactures today will no longer be part of GM's line of products domestically. Some models may continue to be manufactured in foreign factories and then imported into the United States. Models whose production was expected to be completed in June 2019 with the closure of the Hamtramck plant include the Buick LaCrosse sedan, the Chevrolet Volt PHEV, the Chevrolet Impala sedan and the Cadillac CT6 sedan. GM confirmed to The reader the production of the first two ended last week and announced Friday that the last two would continue to be built in January 2020. The high-performance version of the CT6 sedan, the CT6-V, will be included. use a brand new 4.2-liter V-8 twin-turbo called Blackwing.

Due to reduced production from the factory, GM said The reader that he reduced employment at Hamtramck to 700 hourly employees and 75 salaried employees. This workforce will continue to be used until the planned closure of Hamtramck in January.

"This decision was made largely to maintain the availability of state-of-the-art Cadillac technology on the market (SuperCruise, CT6-V Blackwing Twin Turbo V8 engine)," commented Dan Flores, Global Communications Manager for GM Manufacturing. .

GM management reportedly discussed the relocation of CT6 production to another undisclosed North American plant. If no candidate is found suitable on the American continent, GM could produce the CT6 in China, where the model will live, and import cars built in China in the United States, although this is the least desired solution by GM.

"The CT6 is produced in China for the Chinese market," added Flores. "We do not plan to import the CT6 for the moment, we are evaluating our options."