Arlington Assembly

Arlington Assembly label on the driver's door of a Cadillac Escalade (GMT926)

Arlington Assembly is a General Motors automobile factory in Arlington, Texas. The plant has operated for more than 60 years and today manufactures large SUVs from GM's Chevrolet, GMC and Cadillac divisions.

Operations history

The Arlington plant was opened in 1954 to assemble both automobiles and aircraft, but has focused on the former use for most of its history. Early automobile production included models like the Chevrolet Bel Air and Pontiac Chieftain. The factory would continue to produce many large GM cars through the 1990s including products from Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac. Arlington Assembly was the last GM B-body manufacturing facility when GM decided to consolidate operations and convert the plant to SUV production. The plant occupies 250 acres (1,000,000 square meters).

The first GM factory in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area was originally built in 1917 to build the Chevrolet Series 490 on the south side of West Seventh Street and Slayton Street just west of Trinity Park. Due to a flood of the Trinity River in 1922 and flood control taxes levied by the local government, GM closed the factory in 1924. Chevrolet also had another facility, now called the Chevrolet Motor Company Building in Dallas.

Current vehicles produced

Since December 2013, Arlington Assembly manufactures large SUVs based on GM's GMT K2XX platform:

• Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon
• Chevrolet Suburban/GMC Yukon XL
• Cadillac Escalade/Cadillac Escalade ESV

Former vehicles manufactured at Arlington Assembly

• RWD GM B platform vehicles
  • Buick Roadmaster (1991–1996)
  • Chevrolet Caprice (1966–1996)
  • Chevrolet Impala SS (1994–1996)
  • Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser (1991–1992)
• RWD GM A platform vehicles
  • Chevrolet Chevelle SS (1970-1972) - Some SS models were painted a shade of yellow shared with some Oldsmobiles and used a different sequential production number unlike other Chevelles produced at other GM assembly plants
  • Oldsmobile Cutlass 1968-1977
• RWD GM G platform vehicles
  • Chevrolet Monte Carlo (1978–1988)
  • Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (1978–1988)
• RWD GM D platform vehicles
  • Cadillac Brougham (1988–1992)
  • Cadillac Fleetwood (1993–1996)
• GMT400 light trucks (1988-1999)
• GMT800 sport utilities (1999-2005)
• GMT900 sport utilities (2006–2014)

See also

• List of General Motors factories