Is this the future of GM in Lordstown?  

Photographs showing a camouflaged sub-compact are in the latest edition of Motor Trend magazine, which claims they're a new version of the Chevy Cobalt, set to be produced in Lordstown, starting the summer of next year.  The article even suggests this new model has a code name: GMX071.

We caught up with UAW Local 1112 President Jim Graham at a local car dealership. He says General Motors hasn't even decided whether or not it will continue building Cobalts after current model production ends next July, or where an extended model would be built.

For now, he says, there are other more pressing issues.

Graham says he and his membership will learn soon enough about Lordstown's future, insisting they won't find out in the pages of a magazine.  Meantime, managers at Spitzer Auto world in North Jackson say they're selling Cobalts as fast as they get them on the lot and are confident that whatever small car is made at Lordstown in the years ahead, it will be just as popular as the current one. 

In the meantime, the voting continues through Friday on a tentative agreement between GM and members of Local 1714 who work at the fabricating plant.  This proposal, along with the one being negotiated for Local 1112, would be separate from the national contract hammered out between the UAW and GM last year.