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The Chevy Cruze is the new hope for both the Lordstown plant and GM
The Cruze, set to release in April 2010, is being developed and built in Lordstown
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The Chevy Cruze featured on the side of the Lordstown assembly plant
At the GM Lordstown assembly plant, 2,200 people are back at work. They learned this week that they'll be joined by nearly 1,100 more in the fall thanks to hot sales of the subcompact Chevrolet Cobalt. The Cobalt's upscale replacement, the Chevy Cruze is due out next spring and that's seen by many as the real hope for GM.
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GM's 5-million square-foot assembly plant dominates the village of Lordstown and Northeast Ohio communities surrounding it.
Jim Graham heads one of two UAW locals at the GM assembly plant in Lordstown. He says the workers need the Cruze to succeed, as does GM.
 
Contractors installing the new equipment to make the Chevy Cruze kept the A&J Family restaurant going during the Lordstown plant's nine-week summer shutdown.
For now, the Chevy Cobalt is Lordstown's bread and butter. But that will be replaced next Spring with the Chevy Cruze.
Increased demand for the Cobalt led to more than a thousand people being recalled to Lordstown this fall. But they'll also be training for production of the Chevy Cruze.
About 22-hundred people are now back to work at Lordstown after a nine-week summer shutdown.
The Chevy Cruze is just in the testing stage, with mass production expected to begin in April. GM has invested more than $350 million in retooling the Lordstown plant for the Cruze.
A new paintshop is the centerpiece of the retooling of the Lordstown plant to turn out the Chevrolet Cruze. But the shop also is designed to allow the plant to change more quickly to produce other models and makes.
 
David Green heads one of two UAW locals at GM's Lordstown plant. He says workers returned from a nine-week summer shutdown with a new attitude about their jobs.
Early testing of the Chevrolet Cruze means fitting together a tight puzzle to ensure all the body parts fit.
The Chevrolet Cruze is one of the few small cars GM has designed and developed in the last two decades. The company and workers regard it as GM's strongest stake in the future.
John Donohoe is plant manager at Lordstown, and says the test model of the Cruze that he's driven has drawn a lot of interest.
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