GM has announced that it will continue to build the Meriva mini-minivan at its Zaragoza plant in Spain, when it is replaced with an all-new model in 2009, according to Reuters.

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GM had threatened to move production to Poland, where costs are significantly lower.


The move would have resulted in the loss of around 5,000 jobs at Zaragoza, in the north-east of the country, and is a big coup for the government of Aragon, which had offered GM up to EUR30m in subsidies.

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