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Posted by: rwjames Jul 15 2008, 12:33 PM

VW just announced they have selected Chattanooga, Tennessee for the site of their new U.S. manufacturing plant.

It's scheduled to start running in early 2011 and employee around 2,000 employees initally.

Link:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=awIrZMYg9h0s&refer=us

Posted by: carr914 Jul 15 2008, 12:48 PM

They should have never left Pennsylvania

T.C.

Posted by: Root_Werks Jul 15 2008, 04:18 PM

Although a move, still nice to see jobs being kept in the states.

Posted by: james2 Jul 15 2008, 05:36 PM

Good, guess when the Air force finally kills these AC130s I'm patching back together, I can get a job up there.......

/not really
//I'm not a factory worker type
///edit. i'm not a worker type period.

Posted by: Vacca Rabite Jul 15 2008, 09:32 PM

QUOTE(carr914 @ Jul 15 2008, 02:48 PM)

They should have never left Pennsylvania
T.C.

Sadly, the only thing that the PA factory did was loose money year after year.

If VW had stayed there even 1 year longer, it would have resulted in them having to end sales in the US. VAG nearly closed up shop here, until the New Beetle saved their bacon.

Zach

Posted by: zymurgist Jul 16 2008, 10:08 AM

QUOTE(Vacca Rabite @ Jul 15 2008, 11:32 PM)

If VW had stayed there even 1 year longer, it would have resulted in them having to end sales in the US. VAG nearly closed up shop here, until the New Beetle saved their bacon.

heh heh heh... New Beetle.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Justinp71 Jul 16 2008, 10:15 AM

Awesome!

There was a Turbo Golf at the last Autocross I was at and he was faster than my 914-6 on slicks... Not that I'm the fastest driver either.

Posted by: LarryR Jul 16 2008, 10:25 AM

I think the new TDI's will save their bacon once again. I think once people realize that they can get near prius mpg with the same acceleration (within .2 sec) of a mini cooper S they will buy the new TDI's in mass.

Glad to hear they will be building them here.

Posted by: Gary Jul 16 2008, 08:46 PM

"The sedan produced at the plant will be priced between the Jetta and Passat models" Anyone heard of this?

Posted by: james2 Jul 16 2008, 09:11 PM

QUOTE(Gary @ Jul 16 2008, 06:46 PM)

"The sedan produced at the plant will be priced between the Jetta and Passat models"

Anyone heard of this?

Yea, it's going to be called the Choo, Choo

Posted by: Gary Jul 19 2008, 09:10 PM

Found this on http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/volkswagen_news/article_2379.shtml

Volkswagen plans to produce a new mid-sized platform at this factory. Essentially this will be a U.S. market-specific Passat model, although it may not be called "Passat" when it arrives in 2011... Volkswagen of America will now be able to specifically build a car better suited to this market, realize significant cost savings (since it won't have to be imported from Germany) and, most importantly, have a new mid-size car platform strategy that *could* result in a minivan and other mid-size vehicle entries that share components similar to the Toyota Camry/Sienna/Highlander.

We have an '07 Passat Wagon - love it. The next German Passat CC won't have a wagon available and is postured to compete with MB.

Posted by: Rusty Jul 20 2008, 07:13 AM

Huntsville Alabama was really pushing for the VW plant... they offered an incentive package totalling $220,000,000... and it wasn't enough to seal the deal.

Wow.