By Mark Bashore, WKAR
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LANSING, MI –
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It's official. General Motors will add a new, Lansing-made Cadillac to its vehicle lineup.
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Company CEO Dan Akerson made the announcement before a crowd of hundreds of workers and special guests at the automaker's Lansing Grand River facility. Six-hundred new hires will make the Cadillac ATS. Scott Whybrew is the plant manager of both of the Lansing area's GM plants.
"We are fully-prescribed with the CTS on one shift, so this is truly a second shift for us," he says. "And who knows, you never know where the market's going to go, and we're always hopeful for a third shift."
Officials describe the ATS as a smaller version of the brand's popular CTS model. Whybrew says he expects production to begin in the second half of 2011. It will join three other Cadillacs that are already made at Lansing Grand River.
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