GM's plant in Gliwice may make new Daewoo Kalos

General Motors Poland spokesman, Przemyslaw Byszewski, has not excluded the possibility that Opel's Gliwice plant might be used to produce Kalos, the new Daewoo car. In the next few weeks, Opel will cease producing the Astra Classic in Gliwice, leaving only Agila being made at the plant. With less than 80,000 of these cars rolling off the production line each year, this means that the plant is running at 50% capacity. Producing Kalos would be in line with the strategy presented by GM, that the American concern sees a future for Korean cars just in Europe. The vast majority of Daewoo trading companies taken over by GM are located in Europe. Kalos was once going to be produced in the Warsaw Daewoo-FSO plant in Zeran. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 22), M.T.