There's more evidence that workers in Lordstown need a new product to replace the Chevy Cruze they turn off the assembly line.

General Motors figures on Tuesday showing that sales of the locally-made small car dropped 27% in the past three months compared to the same period one year ago.

GM sold 31,971 Cruzes between July and September of this year, compared to 44,046 sold during the same quarter in 2017.

Those numbers for the most recent sales quarter are also down 16% from the previous quarter when 37,836 Cruzes were sold.

Year-to-date, Cruze sales are down 26.5% compared to the first nine months of 2017.

Sales for all GM cars and trucks declined 11 percent year over year, with the company blaming the impact of hurricanes.

The sprawling General Motors Complex in Lordstown which once boasted a workforce of 4,500 men and women only has a fraction of that number.

GM eliminated it's second shift earlier this year because of declining Chevy Cruze sales due to shifting consumer demand to trucks and crossovers.

The elimination of the second shift came little more than a year after GM dropped the third shift in Lordstown, forcing more than 1,200 workers to either transfer or look for new jobs.

In its latest report, GM said combined sales of the Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban and the GMC Yukon full-size SUVs were up 12 percent.

GM’s mid-size pickups, the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon, were up a combined 6 percent.

It was the best third quarter for GM midsize pickup sales since 2004, driven by the Chevrolet Colorado, which posted its best-ever third quarter sales.

The newest crossovers from Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC, the Traverse, Enclave, and Terrain, were up three percent, seven percent, and 14 percent, respectively.

Both U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman have lobbied GM CEO Mary Barra to bring a new product to the Lordstown plant.  Both Senators say Barra has not made a commitment to do so.