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Is There a Future for NUMMI?

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The entrance to an auto plant.
NUMMI, or New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc., was a automobile manufacturing company in Fremont, California, that was a joint venture between General Motors (GM) and Toyota. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)

California is shopping for another automaker to take over the New United Motor Manufacturing plant in the Bay Area suburb of Fremont after it closes on April 1st. Most observers say the shutdown has nothing to do with the quality of the plant, or the work done there.

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