Making a Comeback

Tiny Chevrolet Sonic helps Detroit shake off the rust

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press • Tammy Ballard works April 25, 2012, on a Chevrolet Sonic at the General Motors Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Mich. Nearly four years after GM filed for bankruptcy protection, the automaker is building the Sonic, the best-selling subcompact car in the nation. It&rsq...

Associated Press • A drive train assembly moves in to be joined with a Chevrolet Sonic on April 25, 2012, at the Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Mich. Nearly four years after GM filed for bankruptcy protection, the automaker is building the Sonic, the best-selling subcompact car in the...

DETROIT—When the word reached the Orion Assembly Plant, it spread along the serpentine assembly line like news of a death or natural disaster: General Motors, the biggest automaker in the world, had filed for bankruptcy protection.

On that grim day in 2009, Chevrolet and Pontiac...

Published: 01/05/2013