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Date:         Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:27:38 -0400
Reply-To:     B Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
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From:         B Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
Subject:      Re: VW's New Chattanooga Plant
In-Reply-To:  <dad0e8a40807280820w254abea5gbe9dd77a1c178716@mail.gmail.com>
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What "Missed opportunities" were we discussing?

Bryan

-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Florian Speier Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:21 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: VW's New Chattanooga Plant

Sorry guys, I just dont get it. Why are you all talking about missed opportunities from VW? Have you ever compared prices for VWs between the german website and the american one? Are you aware that 1euro is 1,60Dollar? There is absolutely no incentive for VW to sell any car in the United States that is built in Europe. I am reading autoblog, and there are vw dealers in the u.s. complaining that they get hardly ever a tiguan and then its a badly configured one. Hmmmm, lets see. The Tiguan starts in Germany at 27200Euro, that is 43520 USD, and there is a six month wait list. Ok, these figures include 19% sales tax, but still... in the U.S. it starts at 23000USD. If you were the automaker, would you ship over any tiguans besides some mis-configured custom order that got cancelled? You can do the same comparison on most other vehicles, try the Touareg for example...... One way VW deals with this is by selling its cheapest to build crappiest engines stateside. MAybe its also the only ones they manage to build in their mexiko plant. Ever compared the lineup of gas engines available for the Rabbit/Golf in Germany and the u.s.? The U.S. only has the 2.5l, while there are a plenty 1.4-1.6l engines available in germany with the same horsepower. Really, at this point VW can only keep a foot in the market at the lowest cost possible and wait until the euro drops or they have a decent stateside plant.

FLorian


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