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The automaker Wednesday said it will invest US$ 131 million - and about 250 jobs add - in the South-Central Kentucky assembly plant, which produces the classic muscle car.
The investment can GM the next generation in the bowling green Corvette plant produce. Begin work that site will upgrade itself as the device which two model years continue to assemble the Corvette for the next 2012 including the version.
Now, almost 400 production workers assemble Corvettes in the factory, the only GM site that builds the car and his home for his production since 1981. Chevrolet spokesman David Caldwell said about 1,000 people in the facility at its peak employed in the 1980's.
He said some 250 new jobs workers can be filled by a pool of laid-off.
Caldwell said: the plant is not expanded, but "what happens within its walls changes quite a bit."
The State has already approved $7.5 million in tax incentives for the project.
Plant workers cheered and loud applause there was since the announcement in the works, was switching-off, a decline in the production and layoffs has endured since 2008.
"Rumors about our car moved is another work, rumors of more layoffs, and..." Closures have shown us, we are as vulnerable. ... Today we lay these rumors to rest, "said Shane Colvard, Chairman of United Auto workers of local 2164 the lot."
UAW Vice President Joe Ashton praised the investment.
"We must rebuild the great American middle class", Ashton said in a statement. "There is no better way to achieve this goal worthy as meaningful jobs such as those created in bowling green."
Mark Reuss, GM North America President, said that the investment in Kentucky is to provide part of the $3.4 billion of GM in the United States since mid-2009 adopted or about 9,500 us jobs made.
The Corvette plant produces approximately 15,000 of cars last year. Corvettes at $50,000 start, Caldwell said.
After a decline of 9 percent in the last year, sales of cars have 2011 had a rest in the year. GM sold nearly 4,300 from January to April, 22 per cent.
GM emerged from a bankruptcy 2009 after a Government bailout. Its total U.S. sales rose 26 percent in April.
GM Corvette announcement comes several months after Ford Motor Co. said that it renovation would close a Louisville assembly plant for a 600 million dollar, allowing the escape, a small SUV to create it, the sale also.
If it reopens, Ford plant plans, 1,800 more employees set - or almost 5 percent of the current U.S. Ford work force - builds a new version of the Ford Escape small SUV.
Toyota plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, produces the popular Camry, Avalon and Venza vehicles. It was forced to temporary shut down of all its 13 North American plants to impose, after a March 11 earthquake and tsunami caused damaged factories in the north-eastern Japan, the lack of spare parts.
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Auto writer Tom Krisher from Detroit contributed to this report.
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