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Date:         Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:09:25 -0700
Reply-To:     jimt <wetwesty@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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From:         jimt <wetwesty@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      From the wire news
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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

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• jimt Planned insanity is best. Remember that sanity is optional. http://www.tactical-bus.info (tech info) http://www.westydriver.com


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