General Motors opens design centre in Bangalore

Our Corporate Bureau
29 November 2007

Mumbai: General Motors Corp, the world's largest automaker, has set up a design centre in India, to support its global operations.

The GM India Design Studio in Bangalore will cater to local requirements, as also to its global models and advanced design of future products, GM said in a statement. The design lab will have 100 professionals involved in styling the car, it added.

The India Design Lab will be an integral part of the GM Technical Centre in Bangalore which currently employs close to 900 professionals, it said.

"This is an important step in GM's growth in this crucial market," Karl Slym, GM India President and Managing Director, said.

GM makes the Chevrolet Tavera, Chevrolet Optra, Chevrolet Aveo and Chevrolet Spark in its plant in Gujarat and is building another plant in Maharashtra to take its capacity in India to over 225,000 units.

"We have 11 such studios across the globe designing our cars and the India centre, to start with, will focus on tweaking to perfection the interiors of our models which will hit the roads during 2012," said Ed Welburn, VP (Global Design), GM.