GM expects that its Russelsheim, Germany, factory will be operating at full capacity next year when production of the new Insignia model, which replaces Vectra, ramps up.

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The Financial Times Deutschland reported that the management has announced that it will produce 180,000 cars using a two-shift system.


The plant will also build the next Saab 9-5 and is GM’s lead European plant for the Epsilon II upper medium vehicle architecture.


In 2010 the company plans to introduce a third shift in order to allow the factory to produce 270,000 cars per annum. This year, only around 130,000 cars will be manufactured.

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