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From the wire news

INDUSTRY REPORT: VW to raise output

December 9, 2004

AUTOS

German auto giant Volkswagen AG said it would produce 320,000 cars at its
central Mexican plant in 2005, about 39 percent more than this year, to
capitalize on the weaker dollar.

Hurt by slow sales in the United States, Volkswagen's Mexican unit produced
20 percent fewer autos this year than in 2003, when its plant outside the
colonial city of Puebla built 287,000 units, Thomas Karig, Volkswagen's
cooperate relations director, said Wednesday.

The company's new Jetta, which will be sold as the Bora model in Mexico,
will be produced in a new wing of the Puebla operations, where workers will
assemble parts arriving from Brazil, Karig told foreign reporters.

Production of the overhauled Jetta will account for 200,000 of the cars the
Puebla plant will produce in 2005, he said.

The Puebla operation, Volkswagen's only North American factory, employs
about 13,300 workers and is the only place where the New Beetle sedan and
convertible are built. About 70 percent of production is exported.

The company has been producing about 70,000 New Beetles per year and will
try to maintain that level, Karig said.

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Also see a design contest
The purpose is to do what VWOA did with the new beetle.  To try to get
enough outside industry interest to get a popular vote through to VW
Glasshouse group that we do want a new westy out here in the world.  The
Detroit 2005 show is scheduled for the show.

http://www.dexigner.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=517

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