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The Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance, or GEMA, is a joint-venture between DaimlerChrysler, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, and Hyundai Motor Company to build a line of shared engines. GEMA will control two factories in Dundee, Michigan, and one each in Asan, South Korea, Hwasung, South Korea, and Shiga, Japan. Production will begin in 2005 and will continue at least through 2012 with approximately 2,000,000 engines produced annually. 20 different automobile models from the three companies will use the engines.
The plan was dealt a serious setback when DaimlerChrysler announced in 2004 that it would sell its stake in financially-troubled Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi later announced that it would scale back GEMA engine purchase projections.
GEMA will produce a single family of 4-cylinder engines with variable valve timing. The range starts with a 1.8 L unit, and includes 2.0 L and 2.4 L variants. Turbocharged and supercharged versions may also be produced, as in Chrysler's similar Tritec motor.
Chrysler intends to use mainly the 2.4 L 170 hp engine, which it will use to replace the aging Chrysler Neon engine, which will go out of production. The 2.4 will be used in the Neon and next-generation Stratus/Sebring, as well as nine other models. Chrysler will buy up to 840,000 GEMA engines annually.
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