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http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg The 1.2-million-square-foot Flint South, opened in 2002, is GM's newest U.S. engine plant and now has capacity for the Volt engine. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hrv1Pvy8VqSp2N4NuHFpF7mFh8NgD96I69500)

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/2011_Chevrolet_Volt1.jpgTom Krisher - AP - Feb. 24, 2009

Good business but also make you wonder -- Ed

Detroit - General Motors Corp. has scrapped plans to build a new factory to make engines for the Chevrolet Volt, instead choosing the less-costly option of assembling the engines at an existing plant.

The troubled automaker said Tuesday that it would install machinery for the 1.4-liter, four-cylinder engine in unused space inside the existing Flint South Engine Plant, about 50 miles northwest of Detroit.

"GM will not invest in new floor space at this time due to current capital expenditure constraints and available floor space in existing facilities," GM said in a statement.

The move will save the cash-strapped company about $120 million, but it still will create about 300 new jobs, the same as it would have by building a new facility, said spokeswoman Sharon Basel… http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hrv1Pvy8VqSp2N4NuHFpF7mFh8NgD96I69500

I don't think they would be damaged all that much in a business sense by having the motor built overseas or in Mexico. That would help a lot with cost control. Way they are going, the Volt may not be viable cost wise. I'm sure UAW contractual constrains enter the equation somehow.

I hope this vehicle makes it and is actually affordable enough to survive.

And profittable enough for GM to survive. Its been said they expect losses on every vehicle sold for a while....hope they survive that long enough.

I still don't get why they need a 1.4L engine to essentially power an alternater.