Up to 700 employees are expected to return to the Oshawa car plant as things start revving into high gear with the addition of the North American Buick Regal.
According to General Motors Canada, there are plans to add a second shift to the Oshawa car plant’s flexible manufacturing line.
The announcement was made last week at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto.
The shift will start in the fourth quarter of 2010 in order to prepare for the production of the brand new Buick Regal, which is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2011.
“We’re really excited to be adding production of the all-new Buick Regal alongside the hot-selling Chevrolet Camaro at the Oshawa Car Assembly Plant,” says Marc Comeau, GM of Canada’s vice-president of sales, service and marketing in a press release.
“With the plant’s longstanding reputation for quality, and the Regal’s award-winning European roots, customers are in for a top quality ride, unlike anything they’ve seen from Buick before.”
The addition of the second shift means hundreds of employees will return to work at the Oshawa Car Plant. This announcement is the latest in a string of positive news for GM manufacturing in Canada, including news the Oshawa Car Plant has been running Saturday overtime since June 2009 to keep up with demand for the highly successful Chevrolet Camaro, the production of the Camaro Convertible, which will begin in Oshawa in the first quarter of 2011.
GM also has plans to start production of a newer Impala model, or its replacement, in February 2013 and the Cadillac XTS Platinum in January 2012.