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The validation of India as both a design resource and market continues as GM opens a car design studio in Bangalore, attached to the existing GM Technical Centre. Now GM's engineers and designers in India can finally argue face-to-face!

Seriously though, the new studio will have 70 employees by the end of the year (added to the Tech Centre's 1,900 employees).

[GM Design Veep Edward T.] Welburn said it will take some time before the studio starts designing complete cars. "It will initially be like a listening post for us to gather and understand local product design requirements," he said.

via sify