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Can you update us on GoPro and how many jobs they brought to the states?
VW is current a failed company. The TN plant is producing 100's of thousands less cars than anticipated.
Here are some basics....when built and started:
"The plant will be able to make 150,000 vehicles a year when it opens, but Volkswagen already is planning to start construction in 2011 of a second phase that would increase capacity to 592,000 vehicles a year.
Building a new sedan in Chattanooga is part of VW's plan to expand sales in the United States to 1 million a year by 2018, or more than four times the number sold last year. "
OK, so based on VW, they should have been up to easily that 600K per year plus by now in TN, 7 years after their second phase started. I don't think they hit 200K in 2108.......
VW is a screwy company - their own worst enemy and their failure to understand the American market has killed them. I challenge any of you to stop in a VW dealer and try to buy something...they have nothing to sell. I tried two or three times to buy a car from them and can't (arteon delayed many months, passat behind the times, no Alltracks, etc.)....
Hey, I hope they make and sell a lot of electric cars. I hope "conservatives" come around to buying them.
Volkswagen destroyed themselves with their self-inflicted emissions scandal. They have not recovered from that, and maybe never will. Their reputation in the market has been destroyed, which is why their sales have plummeted.
Volkswagen destroyed themselves with their self-inflicted emissions scandal. They have not recovered from that, and maybe never will. Their reputation in the market has been destroyed, which is why their sales have plummeted.
LOL, where is this destroyed VW? VW is #2 worldwide just behind Toyota.
Ahem. In a right to work state, just like Volvo in SC. Union organizers tried but failed to bring unions into the Tennessee plant. At the time any of the CD union sympathizers said that was the end of VW in Tennessee.
Ahem.
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Originally Posted by vacoder
BMW started putting plants in U.S. when Obama was president. You knew that though.
Ahem. In a right to work state, just like Volvo in SC. Union organizers tried but failed to bring unions into the Tennessee plant. At the time any of the CD union sympathizers said that was the end of VW in Tennessee.
Ahem.
Well then you should find these CD sympathizers and tell them. I have idea why you are responding to my post.
As I said foreign car companies have been starting plants in U.S. for decades. Started in the 1980s. It is not some new phenom.
BMW started putting plants in U.S. when Obama was president. You knew that though.
Foreign car manufacturers make their entire lines here now, not just select vehicles.
Ford, Chevy & Dodge, were trying to make certain lines in different nations and import them back.
Smart v. Dumb.
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