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Don't think of the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi as losing the ability to produce two models, think of it as gaining the capacity to build more pickup trucks.

An article in the business publication, Nihon Keizai, reports that the Mississippi plant will cease production of both the Nissan Quest minivan and the Infiniti QX56 SUV by 2009, shifting production of the two vehicles to facilities in Japan.

As both vehicles are primarily sold in North America, it was beneficial for the automaker to produce the vehicles stateside until now. Unfortunately, slow sales of the Quest (down 28 percent so far this year) and QX56 have proven that production here in the U.S. is becoming too costly to justify and, according to the article, the plants in Japan have the ability retool and manufacture at a quicker rate.

On the bright side, no production capacity will be lost in Canton, where Nissan plans to increase truck production to meet the current manufacturing levels.

[Source: Nihon Keizai via CNN Money]

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This week, Chevrolet announced the start of its 'Silverado 200,000 Mile Club' search, a quest across the U.S. for Silverado trucks with 200,000 miles or more. Documenting this year-long search is husband-and-wife team, journalists Eric Mohl and Karen Catchpole of the Trans-America Journey, who will be aided in their travels by a 2006 Silverado. Mohl and Catchpole will provide online documentation of their journey.

Chevrolet will announce the new members of the club at the Texas State Fair some time in September. The GM brand will also unveil the new 2007 Silverado at that time.

[Source: General Motors via WebWire]

Chevrolet's nationwide quest for veteran Silverados originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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