General Motors’ Holden manufacturing plant in Adelaide, South Australia is now running at full capacity producing the Pontiac G8. The plant — which produces the Commodore model under several brands, including Holden, Vauxhall, Chevrolet , Pontiac and soon to be Daewoo — is currently producing 620 vehicles a day.
GM expects about half of the vehicles made at the plant will be for export, something Holden has been wanting. “For 60 years, we have been producing world class vehicles primarily for the Australian market. That market has developed into one of the most crowded in the world with almost 50 brands now competing for a share of only 1 million new vehicles annually,” GM Holden chairman and managing director Chris Gubbey told Just-Auto.
Gubbey continued: “GM has recognized Holden’s expertise and has entrusted the design and engineering of the group’s large rear-wheel drive cars to us.”
The G8 is expected to hit Pontiac showrooms in the first quarter of 2008.
