On 10/19/04 6:36 AM, "Kenneth Wilford" <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

> I hate to tell you folks this but if you read VW Trends there was an article
> in there recently showing the president of VW at a ground breaking ceremony
> for new offices in (drum roll) China!  Guess where they will start moving
> production in the future?  So getting hung up on "Made in Germany" may not be
> very practical in the near future.

Had to be an old article or they didn�t give the dates of the event.  VW was
the number one auto producer IN CHINA for three years straight.  It is their
highest profit market and their second largest. GM is right behind them now
and may even pass them this year.  VW has announced that it still cant meet
demand in the country but some individual parts are now reaching sufficient
manufacturing levels to begin exporting.  Don�t know which parts but you
will soon be seeing china next to the vw logo.  Believe the vehicle in china
is based on the jetta.

Also the new boss at VW is shifting more production out of germany to
mexico.  The last of the jetta family production in germany.

If you got room for some extra emails everyday go to Google news

http://news.google.com

Do a search on vw
Then on the left select "news alerts"
Then stick in an email address for either daily or as occurs email alerts.

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