Details of the United Auto Workers' contract with General Motors have been published on the Internet, revealing GM's future product plans for domestic plants. Among the details revealed (years given are production dates, and may not correspond to model years):
- The Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid will go into production in 2010.
- The current Chevrolet Corvette and Cadillac XLR will be produced until 2011; new versions will enter production in 2012.
- Wagon and coupe versions of the Cadillac CTS will start production in 2009.
- Production of the current Buick Lucerne and Cadillac DTS will continue until 2010.
- The current Saturn Aura and soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Malibu will be built until 2011.
- New Buick and Saturn mid-size sedans -- most likely the LaCrosse replacement and new Aura -- will start production in 2009.
- Current versions of the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky continue until 2012.
- A full-size Chevrolet sedan -- probably the new version of the Impala -- starts production in 2010.
- The current versions of the Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 will continue until 2009.
- The current Pontiac G6 soldiers on through 2013.
- GM's new mid-size rear-wheel-drive Alpha platform goes into production starting in 2011. No word yet which vehicles will be based on this platform.
- Current versions of the Lamba-platform-based GMC Acadia, Buick Enclave and Saturn Outlook CUVs continue until 2011, with new versions entering production in 2012. A Chevrolet version of the Lambda is also slated for production.
