Ultimate Factories - Camaro Engine

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CAMARO FACTS

• After an 18-hour assembly per car, a new Camaro rolls off the assembly line almost every minute! Go behind the scenes with us and discover what really goes into designing a 2010 Camaro.
• There are 734 robots doing the nearly 5,000 spot welds needed to create the body shell for each Camaro Coupe.
• The Camaro’s outer body side panel is transformed through the strikes by four die sets, with the initial forming press generating nearly 1,400 tons of force at a speed of seven body sides per minute.
• The Oshawa Car Paint Shop is a new, 1.3-million-square-foot facility.
• This new paint shop was built in 2007 and is capable of delivering 150 painted vehicles per hour.
• In order to get to the paint shop the Camaro body has to be transported on a bridge over a city street where it is painted and then shipped back across the bridge to the trim area for final detailing.
• After eight hours in the body shop and five more hours in the paint shop, the Camaro body shell makes its way across a two-level bridge to the general assembly area.
• It takes approximately 18 hours to build a Camaro.
• One Camaro rolls off the assembly line approximately every minute.
• This new paint shop was built in 2007 and is capable of delivering 150 painted vehicles per hour.
• The Oshawa GM plant also produces the Impala in the same factory facility. The total plant size is 8.57 million square feet.
• It took a $740-million-dollar investment to convert the Oshawa Car plant into a state of the art flexible manufacturing facility, producing the Chevrolet Camaro as its first product.
• The Oshawa GM plant first opened in 1953.
• Currently there are 3,743 employees in the plant (3,415 hourly pay and 328 salary.)
• The Camaro engine is produced at a different plant and has to be shipped approximately 2 hours to the assembly line where it finally meets the Camaro.
• It takes 8 months after ordering to receive a brand new 2010 Camaro.
• All of the 2010 Camaros produced today have owners.