(Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. is adding 400 workers, some of whom will transfer from plants that are at risk of shutting down, to its Chevrolet Corvette factory in Kentucky that’s preparing to produce the next-generation sports car.

The largest U.S. automaker will reveal the Corvette on July 18, according to a statement Thursday. GM will be making the jobs available to existing employees, including those from plants that the company has said won’t be allocated new product, according to Pat Morrissey, a spokesman.

GM has been taking political heat from the likes of President Donald Trump and Democratic candidates to challenge him, including former Vice President Joe Biden, over plans to stop production at four U.S. plants by early next year. Its Chevrolet Cruze factory in Lordstown, Ohio, which is about 500 miles away from the Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, stopped operating in March.

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