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Third, auto manufacturers are reluctant to cut prices on new cars. As Busse, Silva-Risso, and Zettelmeyer (2006) show, this does happen quite regularly via rebates o ered by manufac- turers either to customers or dealers. However, manufacturers are very concerned about how this a ects customers' price image of a car, and what inferences customers might make about the quality of a car if a rebate is o ered. Indeed, customer rebates are used least frequently by manufacturers whose cars have the highest reputation for quality and reliability (such as BMW, Audi, Porsche, Honda, and Toyota). Since car dealers have moderate margins on most new car sales, dealers often have. | Repurposing Former Automotive Manufacturing Sites A report on closed auto manufacturing facilities in the United States and what communities have done to repurpose the sites. Prepared by CAR CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH Valerie Sathe Brugeman MPP Kim Hill MPP Joshua Cregger MS Prepared for Office of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers U.S. Department of Labor November 2011 Repurposing Former Automotive Manufacturing Sites Table of Contents Acknowledgments.4 About the Center for Automotive Research.4 Executive Summary.5 Key Findings.6 Case Studies.7 Lessons Learned.9 Data on Closed and Repurposed Auto Manufacturing Sites.12 Trends in Closed and Repurposed Facilities.16 Trends in Repurposed Facility Sites.19 Closed and Repurposed Plant Site Comparisons.26 Database Conclusions.30 Case Studies of Former Auto Manufacturing Facilities.32 General Motors Assembly Plant in Baltimore Maryland.34 Ford Transmission Plant in Batavia Ohio.40 Delphi Fuel Injector Plant in Coopersville Michigan.48 General Motors Assembly Plant in Doraville Georgia.56 Chrysler Lakefront Assembly Plant in Kenosha Wisconsin.61 General Motors Assembly Plant in Sleepy Hollow New York.67 General Motors Assembly Plant in South Gate California.75 Report Conclusions.81 Appendix A Glossary of Terms for Repurposed Automotive Facilities Database.83 Appendix B List of Closed and Repurposed Automotive Manufacturing Facilities.86 Center for Automotive Research 2 List of Figures Figure 1 U.S. Automotive Plant Closures by Year 1979-2015.16 Figure 2 Map of Automotive Plant Closings in the U.S. Since 1979.17 Figure 3 Percentage of Closed Facilities by Automaker.18 Figure 4 Average Age of Plant Closure by Decade.19 Figure 5 Sites Purchased for Repurposing by Year 1980-2011.20 Figure 6 Repurposed Plants by Automaker.20 Figure 7 Geographical Comparison of Facilities that Remain Closed and Repurposed Sites.21 Figure 8 Facilities that Remain Closed and Repurposed Sites by Region.22 Figure 9 Mean and Median Years
