By Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – General Motors is investing $131 million in the Kentucky plant that assembles the Corvette, creating 250 new jobs.
Mark Reuss (pronounced ROOS), GM's North America president, made the announcement Wednesday at the south-central Kentucky plant with Gov. Steve Beshear and local officials.
GM says the investment will support production of the next-generation Corvette. The Bowling Green plant will continue building the current Corvette for at least the next two model years.
Nearly 400 production workers now assemble Corvettes. Chevrolet spokesman David Caldwell says some of the 250 jobs created might be filled by a pool of laid-off workers.
The plant has been home to Corvette production since 1981. Caldwell says at the plant's peak in the 1980s, it employed 1,000 people.