Article: Less is More. (Produce).(Lear Corp. puts the interiors into GM's Chevy Express IT and GMC Savana SIT in O'Fallon, MO)

Take one stripped-out full-size van, a satellite assembly plant, a union workforce and more electronics than went to the moon, and what do you get? The largest second-stage manufacturing project in the industry, and an entree into the booming aftermarket for both GM and Lear.

Every day, there are a number of GM full-size G-vans--the Chevy Express/GMC Savana--coming off the line at the GM Wentzville Assembly plant in Missouri that don't have any interiors, save a corrugated cardboard driver's seat mounted to a standard seat base. It's not that some of the people in the plant forgot to install the seat, headliner, audio system, etc. They are bare because they will ...

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