The new midsize sedan Volkswagen will make in Chattanooga will share about a third of its parts with the Mexican-made Jetta, according to the automaker.
Volkswagen is close to turning the key to start the most complex part of its Chattanooga assembly plant as the carmaker readies its state-of-the-art paint shop.
Volkswagen’s top Chattanooga official said Friday at the opening of a new parkway to the automaker’s plant that it’s looking at a second vehicle to produce at the site.
Most of the Volkswagen Team, the special unit created to focus on helping the automaker and to spur related business, is being folded into Chattanooga’s ongoing job-growth work.
Erlanger Health System’s chief said Tuesday that work should start in September on its multimillion-dollar health and wellness facility at the Volkswagen auto assembly plant site.
A Chinese group in October will travel to Chattanooga to check out Volkswagen’s plant, which will serve as the model for factories the automaker is building in that vast market, officials said.
Volkswagen Drive, which links Interstate 75 to VW’s auto assembly plant in Chattanooga, will open for traffic next Friday after a ceremony, according to an official.
A Volkswagen dealer said Monday he likes the look of what’s believed to be the new midsize sedan scheduled for production at the automaker’s Chattanooga plant.
Volkswagen’s chief in Chattanooga said Friday he does not expect the city to win a new VW engine plant that the German automaker is planning for North America.
Volkswagen and the city are trying to hammer out an innovative green plan in which the automaker would use methane gas from the Summit landfill to produce electricity for its plant.