GM raises producing as "clunker" sales rise

The No.1 U.S. carmaker said it would build 60,000 more vehicles than planned representing the third and fourth quarters close by increasing overtime, adding shifts at some North American assembly plants.

The move desire carry circular 1,350 hourly workers in the United States and Canada risk in to assembly lines, GM said.

GM joins other automakers including Ford Motor Co in raising producing after the fugitive good of the stimulation program, which offers payments of up to $4,500 to people who commerce in elderly gas guzzlers representing fuel-efficient vehicles, helped the companies cut back a excess of unsold cars and trucks.

By late July, the "clunkers" program, inspired close by like programs in Europe, had been drained of the $1 billion in its initial budget. Congress authorized another $2 billion to extend the program.

(Reporting close by Soyoung Kim, editing close by Leslie Gevirtz)