On 10/19/04 7:18 AM, "patrick" <appin@DISTRIBUTEL.NET> wrote:

> My brother-in-law is  head of health and safety for a very large auto parts
> manufacturer. He travels all over the world checking on plants. He has been to
> England , Italy, Germany, Portugal, South africa, argentina,a few others and
> China. I asked him what do they build parts for in China and his answer was
> VW. However he said that none of the parts were for export they were all being
> used to supply assembly plants. These cars are all for local markets.
> He had to shut the plant completely down as they were nowhere near meeting
> their inhouse safety standards. The plant is a foundry but all the workers
> were wearing regular shoes. It was quite an interesting story he gave. By trhe
> way they are  building rabbits at the vw plant no vanagons!!
> Patrick 85 westy, appin ont
> 
> 
An announcement from vw about 3 months ago has them exporting surplus parts
out of china in the near future.  VW is already exporting the polo (jetta)
(see bottom link) and I note that chinese parts are showing up on ebay. As
the vehicle in china is the polo (jetta) there are probably quite a few
parts on the chinese vw that will work on other vehicles.  And as I
mentioned in another note the current leader of VW is moving the last
european (polo) production to the enlarged mexican plant.  That means the
polo (jetta) will be produced in china for one side of the world and mexico
for the other side.  They predict export to 84 countries in the next few
years.

http://www.platinum.matthey.com/media_room/1080212412.htm

http://www.platinum.matthey.com/media_room/1087315205.html

http://www.detnews.com/2003/autosinsider/0312/02/autos-337337.htm
(exporting to AUS
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