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GM, Ford parts shortages cut output for second day

General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co., the two largest U.S. automakers, said parts shortages caused by winter storms in Canada and the U.S. Midwest reduced production for a second day.GM’s Lansing Grand River plant in Michigan is shut down, and six other plants have shortened or suspended shifts, Chris Lee, a company spokesman, said today in an interview. Shifts have been shortened at the CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, which makes the Chevrolet Equinox sport-utility vehicle, and a plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Lee said.

Dec. 16 , 2010