New plant - Volt hype crushes Cruze

Can't get no respect

Today GM announced that it would invest $370 million in a new engine plant in Flint, MI to build engines for the Chevy Cruze and the Chevy Volt. Of course, you wouldn't have known the Cruze engine was also being built at this plant if you only read many of the headlines covering this story. For example, it took 6 paragraphs for the DetroitNews to even mention the Cruze. Ironically, however, the plant will probably be making many more Cruze engines than Volt engines for many years.