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GM Plans New $10M Test Facility

DETROIT-Despite the widespread closing of assembly plants that will result in the loss of 25,000 jobs, GM is planning a $10 million vehicle testing facility in Milford. The new facility, which will open in late 2006, will initially conduct 120 to 150 tests a year with the capacity for more.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on June 10, 2005

DETROIT-Just three days after it announced a massive restructuring plan that will likely see several of its assembly plants across the US close in the next three years, the world’s largest automaker says it is not letting those problems prevent it from adding on to its research & development facilities in its home state of Michigan.

General Motors said Thursday it will build a new $10 million vehicle rollover testing facility at its Milford Proving Ground in Michigan, the centerpiece of $33 million worth of state-of-the-art crash-testing investments to grow the automaker’s global testingcapability.

GM currently conducts rollover tests offsite at a Detroit-area automotive supplier. The new facility, which will open in late 2006, initially will conduct 120 to 150 tests a year with the capacity for more. Earlier this week, at GM’s annual shareholders meeting, the company announced a plan to reduce its number of US manufacturing jobs by about 25,000 positions. It also said it would move to close several US plants, though the company did not identify how many plants or which ones.

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