General Motors has just announced a $494 million investment to build the next generation of Ecotec engines.
The biggest chunk by far – to the tune of $425 million, to be exact, bringing along with it 470 new jobs – will go towards GM’s Tonawanda, N.Y., engine plant, which is where the aforementioned Ecotec engines will be manufactured. The rest of it will be divided up between GM’s plants in Defiance, Ohio ($59 million) and Bay City, Michigan ($10.5 million).
GM hasn’t yet announced what new forms the Ecotec will take. At present, the four-cylinder powerplant is available in 2.0-, 2.2- and 2.4-liter sizes and comes standard in a wide range of products from The General, including the new Buick LaCrosse, Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain in its 2.4-liter guise and fitted with direct injection and variable valve timing.
No they killed both Saturn and Pontiac. So the Solstice and Sky died with it.
They tried to shop the platform. At one point the rumor was Deloran cars was going to buy it, but nothing materialized.
