Assembly plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico are slated to build an average of 66,175 vehicles daily over 63 work days in April-June, compared with year-ago’s 65,932-a-day rate.
Work slowed temporarily on Chevrolet’s ’54-model program in order to rush tooling for the all-new Corvette sports car, WAR reports in a special Bulletin, dated Feb. 9, 1953.
North American auto plants will build 4,027,500 light vehicles, within 99.0% of year-ago, after a modest 12,100 units are added to first-quarter production schedules.
Auto makers are adding 12,500 units to their first-quarter production slate with plans to build 4,015,400 vehicles, but that’s still 1.2% less than prior-year’s 4,066,200.