VW Weighs Building China-Designed Cars in Europe
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What was long regarded as taboo becomes more concrete at VW: Individual China models could in future be sold in Europe and later also built in German plants. There is already a test order.
In order to avoid seeing its historic factories turn permanently empty, Volkswagen's management is now exploring a track that had a sacrilege a few months ago, that of repatriating to Europe models entirely designed and developed in China. By thus reversing the flow of engineering, the brand hopes to reduce its costs and save its national industrial sites, even if it jostles the pride of its home engineers. The made in China to save the German j…
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In Hefei, VW develops cars for China and in perspective for many other countries. The exciting question: When do they come to Germany?
Volkswagen is apparently considering for the first time the concrete possibility of offering VW-branded models developed in China in Europe. According to the Handelsblatt (Wednesday edition), citing company sources, the considerations range from importing the models to later production in Europe. Potential candidates include an SUV developed jointly with the Chinese partner SAIC and another model based on VW's new China platform, CSP. The latter…
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