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Building Your Ride North Carolina

It sits there, gleaming in the sun, paint clean and chrome shining.

Local Companies

Rainbow Auto Spa
(704) 922-0740
236 Hickory Lane Drive
Mount Holly, NC

Roanoke Valley Auto Trader
252-535-4546
Online
Roanoke Rapids, NC

Sanders Ford
(910) 478-4111
1135 Lejeune blvd
Jacksonville, NC

Neil's Paint & Body Shop
(704) 279-5605
1685 Kluttz Road
Faith, NC

Nissan of Hickory
888-324-5041
1555 Hwy 321 North
Hickory, NC

City Chevrolet Company
(704) 536-1410
5101 East Independence Boulevard
Charlotte, NC

Folger Automotive
(704) 536-9635
5701 East Independence Boulevard
Charlotte, NC

foreign cars italia
(704) 535-7100
5216 East Independence Boulevard
Charlotte, NC

Town Square Ford Lincoln Mercury
704 735-8091
1129 East Main St.
Lincolnton, NC

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Introduction

It sits there, gleaming in the sun, paint clean and chrome shining. It's a car, a new car, and it sure looks enticing. Go ahead: get behind the wheel and take her for a test drive. But before you do, there's a few things you might want to know about how that car came to be. In fact, there are volumes of important information about how a car goes from idea...to wheels on the ground. It's a long (though getting shorter) and expensive process that starts with that one idea that gets executives thinking about headlines, sales or survival. Indeed, the process of actually building a car has become an immense game of connecting dots and modules from around the world. As we dive more deeply into how cars are built, we'll focus on three core areas: the Idea, Building Your Ride and Buying Your Ride. For now, we'll start with the basics of each, but stay tuned for an expanded series of articles about how cars are built, and why.

Delta Township Assembly

We toured the new assembly plant that builds the Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook crossovers for General Motors and came away impressed. According to GM, they plan to save more than $1 million in energy and water costs for the plant every year. Steps taken include a white polymer roof that keeps the plant cooler and reduced and strategic lighting throughout the facility. Other highlights include a 75-acre wildlife habitat and recycling initiatives such as using rain water for toilets. All told, 25 percent of the construction materials used to build the plant were composed of recycled content. In a way, the Delta Township plant replaces Lansing's old Car Assembly plant, which opened for business in 1902 and closed its doors in 2004. The old plant was home to many cars in the GM lineup, including Oldsmobile and Pontiac.

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Featured Local Company

Rainbow Auto Spa

(704) 922-0740
236 Hickory Lane Drive
Mount Holly, NC
www.rainbowautospa.com

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