B-Car Focus of GM’s Planned Michigan Retooling

A B-car will launch first from General Motors Corp.’s assembly site in Orion Township, MI, followed by a C-segment vehicle, the auto maker says, confirming the plant has won a reprieve.

Nearly two-thirds of the site’s planned annual capacity of 160,000 units will be devoted to B-car output, expected to begin in 2011 as the bankrupt auto maker gears up to meet the anticipated growth in demand ...