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DETROIT - We now know that the “leaked” United Auto Workers contract document that lays out General Motors’ plant strategy for the next five years was filled with vague and perhaps intentionally misleading information. For example, GM’s Hamtramck, Michigan, factory will build the “Global Delta Volt” in 2010, a year after it begins a Delta-platform MPV and two years before it begins building the Epsilon II next-generation Malibu. But if the Chevy Volt does, indeed, slip because of problems with emerging battery technology, the MPV might provide enough volume to keep Hamtramck’s lights on. Similarly, it lists a new C7 Corvette for Bowling Green, Kentucky, in the ‘13 model year, but that car’s timing is continuing to slip.

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