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Volkswagen will invest $900-million and add 2,000 jobs as part of a decision to build their long-awaited mid-size crossover in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The plant, which already builds the Passat, has been the site of a number of disputes, pitting the UAW and organized labor against an equally passionate opposition that includes the state level government and other anti-UAW entities.
The new crossover, considered a vital part of VW’s success, will be based on VW’s MQB platform, and be produced in 2016.
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Yeehaw!
As a Tennessean, I approve this.
I really thought it would get built in Puebla with all of the recent union crazyness. Good for Chattanooga though. And hopefully these things sell better than the Passat, which seems to be dying on the vine with all of the better choices out there (unless you want a reasonably priced larger diesel sedan).
I hope its not that crossover above, looks bland enough to make one think its a jacked up Camry, that’s lived it’s life in the ghetto.
Well it is likely going to have a Passat basis like the Highlander is Camry based. VWs goal is to be #1 in the world and so far that has consisted of trying to figure out what the segment leaders are doing and copy it plus one.
It looks bland enough to be a VW, what VW isn’t?
That was my underlining thought, but I just isn’t transfer it to writing.
Didn’t*
So, did VAG just play everyone like the fool?
Yup, awesome isn’t it.
Yup. Zee Germans are quite clever.
Does this mean that Corker was right?
Evidently.
If they put the Diesel-Hybrid powertrain in this, I will be the first in line to buy one.
“The plant, which already builds the Jetta and Passat”
It does not build the Jetta, just the NA Passat.
Looks like an Explorer mated with a Jeep GC.
A lot of high quality options in this space, if the do produce the TDI version, will it have the same entry fee as the Toureg diesel?
No. While bigger, this will slot in below the Touareg in therms of price.
How hot will the price be?
Yes, I see a lot of Jeep GC in it too.
“Crossover” is, especially in this example, code for “station wagon with oversize wheels”.
By the way, VW, Volvo called. They want their roof rails back.
Looks like the same roof rails (roughly) as my ’04 Passat; just silver instead of black.
They look indistinguishable from the silver-painted rails on my ’13 Forester.
Maybe someone at VAG had a sudden, blinding, game-changing insight and decreed: The Americans buy them! We’ll build them them there! Crazy ain’t it? PS, I am loath to admit this; but we really needs good ole Bertle’s spin all this VAG stuff.
This will make a great car for the US. I would take one with a 3 peddle diesel. The diesel for the MPG’s and the stick to make ME happy!
This comes at least 15 years too late to get VAG out of the sales hole they’ve dug for themselves in the U.S. I don’t see how this is going to boost the numbers for VW by entering a market that is already saturated with all manner of SUV’s. This is probably will be a fine vehicle, but it’s very presence screams ‘Ich habe nichts.’ VW made a name for themselves bringing cars to the US that no one else thought of building, much less importing around the world. Good thing they didn’t have their current mindset back when all they had to sell was a rear-engined, air cooled compact car, they’d have looked at the American market and said ‘nah, no one will go for that.” Why not import or build the Polo and the 3rd gen Sirocco here?