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GM to Employ Global Design in USGeneral Motors will build at least one car from its new global family of rear- and all-wheel-drive cars in the United States, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz revealed in an interview at the Paris auto show Thursday.
Lutz did not say which U.S. plant would produce the car or cars, when production would begin or what brand or brands would sell them.
GM also will build a long, luxury car in China, Lutz said, based on the new global vehicle architecture, or set of parts and components that can be used to produce a wide variety of models.
The new rear-wheel-drive architecture, called Zeta, will form the basis of the Chevrolet Camaro and a number of other cars for GM's brands in North America.
GM has not identified the other models, but they are likely to include large sedans for its Buick, Pontiac and Chevrolet brands.
The Camaro goes into production in late 2008 or early 2009 at GM's plant in Oshawa, Ontario.
The Chinese model will be called the Buick Royaume.
Lutz did not say when the previously unknown new models would go into production, but GM began assembly of the first car from the program, the Holden VE Commodore, earlier this year in Australia.
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