Official NCAA GM SUV ‘March Madness’ is made in China

Official NCAA GM SUV ‘March Madness’ is made in China

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The official SUV, produced by General Motors (GM), for the annual March Madness tournament of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is made in China.

Last week, Buick – a division of GM – announced that its 2021 Buick Envision is the official SUV of the March Madness.

Buick Envision is built in China and imported into the US market for sale. GM authority reported in May 2020:

The 2021 Buick Envision debuted yesterday, featuring an entirely new second generation nameplate. Now, GM authority confirmed that the next generation model will continue to be built in China. [Emphasis added]

According to our sources, the 2021 Buick Envision will be produced at the SAIC-GM Jinqiao South plant in China. From there, the new Envision will be shipped to each of the four markets where the Buick brand is available, including the USA, Canada and Mexico (comprising the North American market), as well as in China. [Emphasis added]

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For reference, the first-generation Buick Envision was also produced in China, but in a different facility, namely the SAIC-GM plant in Dongyue North. Like the 2021 Envision, the first generation model was also sold in China and throughout North America. [Emphasis added]

In November 2018, Breitbart News Economics editor John Carney urged GM to start manufacturing its Buick Envisions in the United States, not in China.

“Envision is the first car built in China for the US market. Last year, the Americans bought 42,000 Envisions, which are made by a joint venture between General Motors and SAIC Motor, a Chinese state-owned automaker, ”wrote Carney:

China, however, is now the largest market for General Motors. Last year, the company sold 4,040,789 vehicles there. And China has high tariffs on automobiles and other requirements that make exporting cars to China practically impossible. General Motors’ “build where we sell” policy is a requirement in China.

But it would be a much simpler matter to bring only the U.S. portion of the Envision manufacturing back to the U.S. The basic architecture of the Envision is the same as the Chevy Volt, which would soon pass away, which was built at the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant that the company announced would close at the end of next year.

“It would probably not take a huge amount of re-equipment to keep the factory open and making Envisions,” he concluded.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Send an email to [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter on here.

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