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GM to Invest $540 Million in Plant in Central Mexico

Thursday, 20 January 2011 12:52 PM EST

General Motors said it is investing $540 million in its motor plant in central Mexico to build more fuel-efficient engines for the recovering North American automobile market.

"This confirms with facts the confidence in Mexico and the certainty of one of the most important companies in the world that Mexico is a safe and productive place to invest," Mexican President Felipe Calderon said at an event in the central industrial hub of Toluca, where GM operates one of its five facilities in the country.

Rising drug violence has worried some foreign companies with operations in Mexico.

The U.S. automobile market bounced back in 2010 from a four-year slump, and a 50 percent surge in Mexican vehicle production helped speed the recovery of Latin America's second-biggest economy out of a deep recession.

The move by GM, flush with cash after its 2009 restructuring in bankruptcy, follows other investments in recent years by American, European and Asian automakers, who are seeking to produce more fuel-efficient models in Mexico.

GM and other U.S. automakers are readying a new generation of small cars to address a weakness in their product line-up that cost them sales when gas prices spiked in 2008.

The new motor production line is being built at a plant where GM shuttered production of gas-guzzling trucks during the recession, Calderon noted.

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General Motors said it is investing $540 million in its motor plant in central Mexico to build more fuel-efficient engines for the recovering North American automobile market. This confirms with facts the confidence in Mexico and the certainty of one of the most important...
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