Volkswagen plant in America?
#1
12-15-2007, 09:20 AM
Volkswagen plant in America?
Came across this article on MSNs web page. It explains how manufacturers are planning on building plants here in America to reduce on shipping costs to the States. Numerous companies including Fiat and Volkswagen!
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...MadeInUSA.aspx
Check it out!
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...MadeInUSA.aspx
Check it out!
#2
12-15-2007, 10:59 AM
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RE: Volkswagen plant in America?
it'd be cool, only if they reduced the price of their products, to reflect their new, lower infrastructure maintainence costs, but, since it's simply so they can keep more of what they're already overcharging me for... I'm less than impressed.
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12-15-2007, 12:01 PM
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RE: Volkswagen plant in America?
i don't think it's a good idea.
part of the reason i think american cars suck is that the work force here is lazy and doesn't care about the products they put out.
part of the reason i think american cars suck is that the work force here is lazy and doesn't care about the products they put out.
#5
12-15-2007, 01:17 PM
RE: Volkswagen plant in America?
ORIGINAL: Khardysius
Came across this article on MSNs web page. It explains how manufacturers are planning on building plants here in America to reduce on shipping costs to the States. Numerous companies including Fiat and Volkswagen!
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...MadeInUSA.aspx
Check it out!
Came across this article on MSNs web page. It explains how manufacturers are planning on building plants here in America to reduce on shipping costs to the States. Numerous companies including Fiat and Volkswagen!
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...MadeInUSA.aspx
Check it out!
#7
12-15-2007, 02:25 PM
RE: Volkswagen plant in America?
Current status of GM, Ford and Chrysler are directly related to current management and the stranglehold the CAW/UAW has on them. The big three have been overshadowed by Toyota.
Toyota will not employ any of the CAW/UAWmembers and no one is complaining and they are building yet another plant in the US
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/...isfaction.html
Toyota will not employ any of the CAW/UAWmembers and no one is complaining and they are building yet another plant in the US
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/...isfaction.html
#8
12-15-2007, 03:54 PM
RE: Volkswagen plant in America?
ORIGINAL: Nocturnal_A62.7
I will give up my Audi, if they will plan to start manuacturing one in US. The American cars are not that bad....it's the idiots working in Detroit that make shitty cars to avenge the management....that was the reason, the guy who put the idea of Saturn, took the car totally outside Detroit. Saturn's are the most reliable of the American lot. The management in Detroit sucks, and the workers too. Having said that, where ever they put a plant, they still can't make anything close to Europeans. Another example...X5 from BMWs have the lowest reliability ratings...cause they are made in USA.
ORIGINAL: Khardysius
Came across this article on MSNs web page. It explains how manufacturers are planning on building plants here in America to reduce on shipping costs to the States. Numerous companies including Fiat and Volkswagen!
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...MadeInUSA.aspx
Check it out!
Came across this article on MSNs web page. It explains how manufacturers are planning on building plants here in America to reduce on shipping costs to the States. Numerous companies including Fiat and Volkswagen!
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...MadeInUSA.aspx
Check it out!
#9
12-15-2007, 04:55 PM
RE: Volkswagen plant in America?
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i don't think it's a good idea.
part of the reason i think american cars suck is that the work force here is lazy and doesn't care about the products they put out.
i don't think it's a good idea.
part of the reason i think american cars suck is that the work force here is lazy and doesn't care about the products they put out.
I'd still buy Audi if it were made here, but I would be leery about it.
Look at the mk4 golfs and jettas compared to the german made mk3... the brazillians and mexicans may be to blame, but maybe it was just a poorer design. Mk3's were solid little cars... mk4's rattle and stuff from brand new.
#10
12-16-2007, 04:01 AM
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RE: Volkswagen plant in America?
theres a volkswagon plant in tiajuana...like two minutes from the border
I would suspect that the US would prolly put together a more quality VW then mexico
but if VW starts assembling in the US, the pruce of the cars are going to skyrocket
NAFTA FTW!
I would suspect that the US would prolly put together a more quality VW then mexico
but if VW starts assembling in the US, the pruce of the cars are going to skyrocket
NAFTA FTW!