UPDATE: The Detroit News report did not state that Volkswagen will be building an engine plant in Chattanooga Tennessee, only that a decision on the matter would be made in 2010. No decision has been made by Volkswagen as to the whereabouts of the new plant. According to Thomas Loafman, director of purchasing for Volkswagen [...]
According to “sources” in German, Volkswagen is looking to expand its Passat CC range with the additions of an estate version – better known to us Americans as a station wagon. We already know that the next-generation Passat in the United States will be replaced by the upcoming New Midsize Sedan, which will not offer [...]
Magna Seating, an operating group of Magna International, and Hollingsworth Logistics, a leading provider of industrial supply chain management, said today that they have formed won contracts to supply Volkswagen Group of America with complete seat systems for the new mid-size sedan that will be built at Volkswagen”s new Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant. “This partnership is [...]
About a month ago, Volkswagen released a sketch of its forthcoming mid-size sedan, which will be produced at the company”s new plant in Chattanooga, TN., exclusively for the U.S. market. Known internally as the NMS (new mid-sized sedan), the model will go on sale at the end of 2011. According to a report by AutoCar, the [...]
According to Chattanoogan.com, Volkswagen has received 65,000 applications for about 2,000 positions for its new plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Volkswagen of America accepted applications for about three weeks. Volkswagen plans to kick off production of a new mid-size sedan at Chattanooga in 2011. The automaker has yet to decided on the official name of the sedan, which [...]
Volkswagen of America today released a sketch of its forthcoming new mid-size sedan, which will be produced at the company’s new plant in Chattanooga, TN. The sedan will be introduced to the market in late 2011. Volkswagen has yet to release the official name of the sedan, which will replace the Passat in the United States. [...]
According to Stefan Jacoby, Volkswagen Group of America CEO, the automaker will most likely drop the Passat sedan and wagon in 2011 when its new U.S. built mid-size sedan goes on sale. “We are looking at it in detail,” Jacoby said at a press event earlier this month. The U.S. built mid-size four-door car will [...]
After Volkswagen launches the next-generation Golf later this year, it will focus on redesigning the Jetta for next year. Following those two product launches, Volkswagen will focus its energy on a new mid-sized sedan which will be produced at the company’s new Chattanooga, Tenn., factory. Volkswagen Group of America CEO Stefan Jacoby said that the [...]
