global engine alliance llc type joint venture industry automotive engineering founded may 2002 headquarters dundee michigan key people bruce a. baumbach general manager products engines parent chrysler website gemaengine.com the global engine alliance llc began as a joint venture of chrysler mitsubishi motors and hyundai motor company for developing a line of shared engines . in september 2009 chrysler bought mitsubishi and hyundai s shares after 5 years of allied research and development with its dundee michigan plant becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of what was then chrysler group llc . 1 2 3 4 5 6 contents 1 global engine manufacturing alliance llc gema 2 design 3 see also 4 references 5 external links global engine manufacturing alliance llc gema edit global engine manufacturing alliance llc or gema was the manufacturing arm of the global engine alliance and consisted of five factories worldwide ; two in dundee michigan united states two in south korea and one in shiga japan . production began in 2005 with an annual capacity of approximately two million engines ; each plant was capable of producing 420 000 . twenty different automobile models from the three companies will use the engines . chrysler had expected to use gema produced engines in ten models and projects and buy up to 840 000 gema produced engines annually . the dundee plants were purchased by chrysler in december 2012 and renamed the chrysler dundee engine plant s . 7 after chrysler s assimilation into fca the plant simply became known as the dundee engine plant . design edit the initial design of the engine block and cylinder head was handled by hyundai . it features siamesed bores an aluminum block with cast iron cylinder liners and an aluminum head . different cylinder liners could be fitted to increase or decrease displacement depending on manufacturers needs . each manufacturer configured their variants of the initial design differently based on their engineering needs and standards so consumers may experience very different power fuel efficiency and feel from each manufacturer . see also edit chrysler world engine chrysler s gema built engines mitsubishi 4b1 engine mitsubishi s gema built engines hyundai theta engine hyundai s gema built engines references edit gema takes off although some people think that the only place to build new manufacturing plants in the u.s. is in the southern states a team of global companies has constructed one of the most flexible powertrain plants in the world in michigan . why one answer is talent kevin m. kelly automotive design & production october 2005 findarticles.com 18 november 2007 looking dcx s global engine automotive design and production february 2005 issue global engine manufacturing alliance world engine plant open for business global engine alliance llc press release october 3 2005 . retrieved on september 1 2006 . daimlerchrysler hyundai and mitsubishi motors to form global engine alliance mitsubishi motors website lean and flexible manufacturing waurzyniak patrick manufacturing engineering september 2006 findarticles.com 18 november 2007 chrysler buys gema stakes from mitsubishi and hyundai holmes jake car and driver blog september 2009 http media.chrysler.com newsrelease.do & id 6422 & mid external links edit official site v t e fca us llc marques current chrysler dodge jeep ram fiat automobiles usa defunct amc 1966 88 commer 1905 79 barreiros 1959 78 desoto 1928 61 eagle 1988 98 fargo 1920 72 hillman 1907 76 humber 1898 1975 imperial 1955 75 1981 83 karrier 1908 77 plymouth 1928 2001 singer 1905 70 simca 1934 77 srt 2013 14 sunbeam 1901 76 valiant 1960 66 divisions and subsidiaries current chrysler australia chrysler canada dodge jeep mopar ram trucks street & racing technology srt road track r t defunct chrysler plymouth 1928 2001 american motors corporation 1954 88 chrysler australia 1951 81 chrysler europe 1967 81 chrysler uk 1970 81 envi 2007 09 former eurostar automobilwerk global electric motorcars chrysler first financial services corporation joint ventures and alliances current united states council for automotive research defunct diamond star motors daimlerchrysler mitsubishi alliance global engine alliance people walter chrysler lee iacocca bob lutz c. robert kidder thomas w. lasorda sergio marchionne louis rhodes places chrysler building chrysler headquarters and technology center factories proving grounds products engines hemi pentastar wge platforms transmissions vehicles other big three cerberus capital management chrysler classic racing daimler chrysler 1998 2007 history chapter 11 reorganization parent fiat chrysler automobiles category commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title global engine alliance & oldid 723318654 categories daimler aghyundai motor companyjoint ventureschryslermitsubishi motorscompanies based in michigan navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa olpolski edit links this page was last modified on 2 june 2016 at 10 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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