GM Closes Mesa Test Track

June 12th, 2009

The Arizona Republic reports that the last car has taken its last test lap, and most employees have already moved to a new facility in Yuma. The article notes:

For the past few weeks, perhaps a half-dozen people have been packing for General Motors’ final departure from Mesa, bringing a quiet end to an era when American automotive icons like Corvette, Firebird and Camaro had to do or die on a 5-mile test track in the brutal desert heat.

Today, GM will quietly turn out the lights at its vast Desert Proving Ground in southeast Mesa, ending more than 56 years of operations there.

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