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so right now we have uh a lot of open
capacity we're a ones shift operation
and we've been able to grow our family
here in the last year where we've added
350 new jobs um and that's with the
addition of the Impala and the ELR so
we're excited that there's upside
because we have we still have two open
shifts worth of production and we hope
to fill that up in the next couple years
do you think for the near future that
Detroit will be uh an important
production facility for General Motors
absolutely GM's strategy is to uh fill
um each each assembly powert train
stamping facility so it's fully
capacitiy capaci each facility so you
can get the lowest cost uh product to
the customer so um we're excited because
we see uh as we continue to get more
products we continue to uh be able to
grow the family and obviously um Detroit
and hamic are the communities with which
we live so it's very important as we
continue to grow that that they benefit
from
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that here is the
Cadillac
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for you know we're looking at 100 Years
of the moving assembly line and it's
ironic that you're here at the Michigan
Assembly Plant which happens be the
first manufacturing site in the world to
be able to produce gas powered vehicles
along with hybrid and also plug in
electric vehicles so does it add a
little bit of complexity yes it does but
with flexible manufacturing we're able
to do this
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efficiently it's very positive the
industry is starting to uh to pick up um
we've had a record series of quarters um
our margins are very good our sales are
very good and so yes at the moment the
future looks really bright and what
plans does Ford particularly have to um
increase growth and prosperity in
Detroit area well we'll continue to keep
capacity size to demand and as the
demand inside the US increases we'll
continue to look at how do we increase
the capacity in our plants that will be
good news for everyone in Detroit
we at Ford Motor Company continue to
innovate one of the biggest things that
we really need to focus on and we're
focusing on going forward is our our 3D
printing also our virtual Factory and
then in addition to that making sure
that all of our facilities are flexible
you know we went through some very
significant restructuring so we've got
capacity um size to demand I think
that's very um very good from a
perspective that the business has
improved and although it was very
difficult at the time I think you can
see the benefit of that all the
companies can see the benefit of that
and the suppliers as well so I think I
think the future is really
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what is so great about American cars
well American cars they're just you know
it's the Nostalgia the muscle you know
it's you know raw horsep flower you know
but it's just something about bulky big
you know horsepower you know it it's
just you know it's all American yeah
right isn't that a little bit
old-fashioned way of thinking yes yes
absolutely it is but you know again you
know it's like yester year you know you
never want to get rid of it you know
it's your
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history if you see a car and it makes
your heart skip a beat that's a special
car un Lo it and Let It
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Rock it's just it's the body style it's
the the cars today do not have the style
no of the 50s and 60s 60s were the best
in this
country uh and there's nothing nothing
like a rear wheeel drive when you hit
the engine it just goes from the back
forward it
moves it's properly built it's good
Detroit steel it's American Iron the
future of American cars you can't really
use these type of cars in the future
because they're fuel consuming I mean
you have to you know you have to be
sensible about it but again you know you
have to have something for an nostalgic
purposes you
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know what do you think is nicer about
modern day cars then because they like
the radio station like it's better
because like you like you can just press
what you want to go on and like you had
to go throw it switch and stuff I think
um these cars probably look a lot cooler
than the modern day cars but
um the modern day cars probably had like
better gas mileage and how do you feel
about the future Grace um I think that
like in the future cars will be like
huge and like like you can like have
like a little kitchen in each of them
and like stuff like that you want a
kitchen in your car in the future yeah
yeah mm that is what you dream about
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Detroit
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this is a city with residents that love
their vehicles they work at the car
companies um and it's a car culture here
I don't think we're all of a sudden
going to abandon vehicles in the Detroit
market and take light rail to work
people love their cars there's not a lot
of car sharing or there's not a lot of
car pooling that goes on uh this is an
area uh where um if you love your car
you want to drive it the future of the
American car is going to be looking for
still looking for Great Value High fuel
efficiency is becoming more important
feature but also the car is the enabler
to the lifestyle that the American leads
I don't think you're going to see the
American public turning more you know
all of a sudden turning into all a b and
c segment cars but you're going to see
them being uh looking more uh within the
segment that they're interested in
making sure that they're getting as as
as high of fuel efficiency as they can
within the segment that they're
interested in key will be execution of
some of these Key Products because the
consumer is not going to provide a
second chance um this is their one shot
to get it
right probably the short term you're
going to see hybrid vehicles more and
more and more hybrid uh than before uh
starting with the mild hybrids there's a
lot of those today and then uh to full
plug-in hybrids uh in the future there's
probably going to be a niche of electric
vehicles and another uh probably big
Market of uh Hybrid fuel cell vehicles
but that's in the far future from now do
you think the workers and the automotive
companies in Detroit are ready for this
new type of vehicle uh probably most of
them are not ready yet uh there's still
a lot of focus on trying to to save the
engine uh and to to make it a little bit
better here a little bit better then but
after 100 years of working on that I
don't see there's going to be uh much of
improvement there uh anytime soon uh
that means that a lot of those employees
a lot of those Automotive workers need
to uh kind of shift themselves into the
more high- techy uh hybrid vehicles or
learn how to work with those controls
and electrical pieces rather than the
mechanical pieces uh and that requires a
lot of uh shift in in thinking uh and
the way you you view the automotive
industry uh you know uh I I I don't know
much about the the business side of it
but from a technical perspective I think
uh you know the way they go about
developing new technology the way they
go about
developing uh or or improving their
Workforce training and and all those
kind of things I I do see uh a a major
change in their in their mindset in
their thinking yep Detroit overall is
doing a fantastic job moving ahead they
they are looking into different
directions different initiatives that
will allow them to to speed up the pace
in their transition or revolution as you
call it but I think overall Detroit has
been doing a fantastic job the only way
to go is hybrid so the industry
understands that and they'll push for it
if they can't meet that demand they'll
just fall behind everybody else how
about bicycling in
Detroit not in the
winter
now Detroit's always been known as the
Motor City and now bikes have just been
kind of taken off it's become uh an easy
way to get around town and so we've just
been uh you know we've had a shop just
outside of Detroit just open a shop in
Detroit this year and uh just been
getting busier and busier and it's just
really cool to see it taken off it's
just a different form of transportation
that people in this area never really
did until the last couple years it's
become really really popular and people
want to ride bikes rather than drive a
car and why is that I mean gas prices
just it's kind of a pain to drive around
if you're only going 2 miles away you
can get there faster on your bike than
you can by driving a car um and it's
kind of become like a cool thing to do
drop car insurance drop the gas prices
drop the car payment all together I mean
it's a really bogg down entity in most
people's lives they have to work so hard
to keep a car going that a bike provides
a really simple healthy solution you can
ride around the city and it's just see a
totally different point of view um when
you're on a bike than in a car so it
becomes like a whole new vision of the
city I mean we are still the Motor City
uh cars are I think will always be a
major effort of Transportation
but I think there is a shift we're
getting more bike Lanes people are more
aware of bikes on the road um I think
that uh cycling around the city is going
to become something that's like a major
part of the
city
Detroit
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