Wentzville Assembly

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Wentzville Assembly is a General Motors automobile factory at 1500 East Route A in Wentzville, Missouri which opened in 1983.[1] (Wentzville is located about 40 miles west of St. Louis, MO just off of I-70). The plant comprises 3.7 million square feet of floor space on 569 acres and includes a stamping plant to produce body stampings. The plant has a similar floor plan to the Lake Orion and Detroit-Hamtramck (Michigan) plants that opened at about the same time. The factory originally built full-size Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac sedans, and assumed operations of the previous St. Louis Truck Assembly which had been in operation since 1920. Later in 1996, production shifted to building more than 2.5 million of GM's full-size Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana cargo vans, known as the GMT600 platform [1] replacing a previous generation of vans built at Lordstown Assembly in Ohio and Flint Assembly in Flint, Michigan. This involved a complete gutting and revamping of the plant, going from a unibody, front wheel drive passenger car to a rear drive, body on frame truck. An all new robotic body shop was part of the change. The van received a significant revision for the 2003 model year, known internally as the GMT610, which included a new front end, new powertrains ("LS" engines), left hand side cargo doors, and AWD models. In 2014, GM replaced the lighter 1500-series vans[2] with the Chevrolet City Express built by Nissan in Mexico,[3] while keeping the commercial-grade models built in Wentzville. That same year the plant began building the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon,[1] which replaced earlier light trucks built at the former Shreveport Assembly factory in Louisiana. The plant has received numerous quality awards over the years for both the mid size truck and full size van models.

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See also[]

  • List of GM factories

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Wentzville Assembly". General Motors. General Motors. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  2. ^ https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/chevrolet-express-1500-gmc-savana-1500-dropped-from-lineup-for-2015.html[bare URL]
  3. ^ https://blog.caranddriver.com/nissan-will-produce-chevrolet-badged-nv200s-beginning-next-year/

Coordinates: 38°49′N 90°49′W / 38.82°N 90.82°W / 38.82; -90.82

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