Today's the Day for Final Chevy Cobalt

This will be the last Chevy Cobalt to come off the Lordstown assembly line.

The final underbody for the Chevrolet Cobalt rolled off the production line at the metal fabrication plant here at 12:40 Tuesday morning and in the next few hours or so, the last Chevrolet Cobalt will roll off the line at the assembly plant.

The plant then will begin its traditional two-week shutdown for the July 4th holiday, but preparation for the launch of the Chevrolet Cruze will continue. The production of saleable Cruzes begins next month, with the first finished models coming off the line in August.

The Cruze, considered a flagship model for GM's Chevrolet brand, is to arrive in dealerships by September with a base sticker price of $16,900.

Lordstown won production of the Cobalt in 2002 after the plant secured competitive labor agreements with its two unions, United Auto Workers Local 1112 and 1714.

Those agreements were instrumental in convincing GM to pump in about $1 billion so the massive plant could retool its production lines as it phased out the Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire. That new investment included a $250 million paint shop, one of the most sophisticated of its kind in North America.