GM | President very optimistic GM Canada president George Peapples is confident thay car and trucks sales will pick up in 1994, Speaking at the start of the Montreal International Auto Show recently, es said * in Canada, the export-led recovery, of which automobile export from Canadian manufacturing to the US market is a large part, will continue to stimulate real GDP growth, increasing to 3 per cent from 2.4 per cent in 1093." He went on to say that with inflation and interest rates remaining low and with an aging Canadian fleet, we anticipate relatively strong growth in new motor vehicle sales to almost 1.3 million unit, a return to near the 19007 evels. "The strong signe of economic recovery in the U.S. certainly bode well for auto uf = As real growth increases to three per cent, we anticipate growth in new US car and truck sales by 609,000 units this year to 14.8 million units," be said: + Peapples went on to say thet the past five years have been tough ones for General Motors but the company has been working hard to improve both quality of product and efficiency. He cited the new Lumina and Monte Carlo as examples which have more features than their predecessors but contain several hundred fewer parts and require about one third the time to assemble which results in better "quality and reduced cost. These new Lumina and Monte Carlo autos made their debut at the Montreal Show and will go into production in Oshawa next month. said, over the In fact, Peapph has been set at about in Canada, since more than 85 per cent of our Canadian production is exported to the US. 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