Volkswagen Favors Supplier Merge
July 18, 2008
Forbes.com: Market News / Javier Espinoza
The German carmaker said it is in favor of a friendly merger between its suppliers Schaeffler and Continental.
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VOLkswagen and East Tennessee
July 16, 2008
No Silence Here / Michael Silence
The announcement Tuesday that Volkswagen Group of America Inc. will build an automobile manufacturing plant in Chattanooga was greeted enthusiastically 112 miles away in Knoxville by those who say East Tennessee and the entire state stand to benefit from the plant's spin-off economic activity.
VW: Deal not revealed, and not everybody's happy
July 16, 2008
No Silence Here / Michael Silence
Plant incentives not revealed NASHVILLE - Tennessee officials say they won't know for several weeks how generous their incentive package for the new Volkswagen AG plant to Chattanooga will be. Gov. Phil Bredesen and other members of his Cabinet told reporters Tuesday that the German automaker is still working on designing the $1 billion plant, so it's not clear which infrastructure improvements the state will need to be made to the site.
Euro Buffer: Volkswagen To Open US Plant
July 16, 2008
SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
Twenty years after the closure of its last American plant, Volkswagen is returning to the United States. With its planned factory in Chattanooga, the company is hoping to regain US market share and also buffer itself from euro-dollar currency fluctuations.
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July 19, 2008
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Ahoy! VW Touareg “North Sails” Study
July 19, 2008
CARSCOOP / noreply@blogger.com (John)
Just in time for summer, VW has unveiled a one-off study inspired from the world of sailing boats. Created in cooperation with North Sails, the...
'Bug Jam' Volkswagen festival
July 19, 2008
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What is Illegal in this Volkswagen Ad?
July 16, 2008
TreeHugger
> What is illegal about this ad showing a Volkswagen Polo Blue Motion chained to a bike rack? Sorry, bicyclists. It's not the provocative suggestion that automobiles further invade bicycles' territory.
ET hoping to cash in on Chattanooga's VW plant
July 16, 2008
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The announcement Tuesday that Volkswagen Group of America Inc. will build an automobile manufacturing plant in Chattanooga was greeted enthusiastically 112 miles away in Knoxville by those who say East Tennessee and the entire state stand to benefit from the plant's spin-off economic activity.
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Wild- Jet powered Beetle will teach you Newton's 3rd law, the hard way.
July 19, 2008
Top Speed / Top Speed.com
Posted on 07.19.2008 11:23 by Shrawan Raja Filed under: Volkswagen | USA | compact cars | hatchback | Volkswagen Beetle | car tuningA little while ago there was a remarkably strange and one-off Beetle, that was pieced together using metal stands, which you can see for yourself here just in case you have missed it.
Volkswagen deflates electric-car enthusiasm
July 19, 2008
Monsters and Critics World News / DPA
Wolfsburg, Germany - Volkswagen's top researcher warned Saturday that pure electric cars would not became a major product for
Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen a winner
July 19, 2008
dailystar | www.azstarnet.com ®
Somebody please remind me why the station wagon has been dismissed as uncool, the generic mom-mobile. The 2009 Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen is an exciting and enjoyable compact car.
Remembering a Wave That Was More of a Ripple
July 19, 2008
washingtonpost.com - Style / J. Freedom du Lac
Alternative-rock godhead Thurston Moore wasn't part of New York's "no wave" music scene in the 1970s. But he was on the periphery, and there's photographic evidence to prove it: a black-and-white shot featuring some of no wave's central figures -- including Lydia Lunch, James Chance, Diego Cortez.
WTO Challenges China on Tariffs
July 19, 2008
washingtonpost.com - Business Policy / Mark Drajem
China violates global trade rules by requiring automakers operating there to buy most components from local suppliers or face higher tariffs, the World Trade Organization ruled.
Nurburgring Return: Volkswagen With Positive Interim Tally
July 18, 2008
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VW ships 1st new-generation Jetta kits from Mexico to India
July 18, 2008
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Volkswagen AG has shipped the first new-generation Jetta sedans from Mexico to India as complete knockdown kits. This year, VW plans to export 3,250 Jetta CKDs from Mexico to India, a spokesman at VW's Puebla plant told Automotive News today.
VW considering Polo for the U.S.; Passat successor to be built in U.S. under new name
July 18, 2008
Leftlane - news, reviews, and info for the auto-industry / dejz28
Since gas topped $4 a gallon in the U.S., consumers have been flocking to small cars in record numbers. The dramatic shift caught many automakers off guard, with most scrambling to ramp up their small car efforts in the U.
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