1 billion to expand its vehicle assembly plant in Mexico鈥檚 Puebla state and prepare it for production of the new Tiguan compact crossover SUV, the company said on Monday. The investment is focused on new assembly lines and will generate some 2,000 jobs, Andreas Hinrichs, chief executive of Volkswagen Mexico, said as he unveiled the expansion plan. Production of the Tiguan will begin in late 2016, the company said, with the vehicles hitting the market the following year. Volkswagen will produce around a million of the vehicles at the plant over eight years, Hinrichs said. Some of the Tiguan produced will be sold in Mexico. 19 billion under President Enrique Pena Nieto, who took office two years earlier, according to government data. Volkswagen, which opened its Puebla plant in 1964, last year produced 475,121 vehicles out of about 3.2 million autos manufactured in the country, Mexican Automotive Industry Association (AMIA) data show. Mexico is the seventh biggest manufacturer of autos and the world鈥檚 fourth largest exporter, according to AMIA. Over 80 percent of those vehicles are destined for sale abroad. Mexican auto production jumped 14 percent in February to 282,856 units versus the same month a year earlier, the Mexican Auto Industry Association (AMIA) said on Monday. Exports rose 12.6 percent to 222,351 units, AMIA added.
The Routan. It was the porridge that was too hot - and too cold - all at the same time. The 2011 Jetta sold a bunch but left many wanting more VW-like traits. Built cheap and priced to sell, the 2011 VW Jetta made the 2010 version look like a greatest-ever sedan. Yet it still sold. And sold. And sold like no Jetta ever before. This was a Jetta with downgraded interior materials and an inferior driving experience, among other weak points. Sure, it had more rear-seat legroom and a large trunk, but the 2011 Jetta lacked what had endeared previous generations to so many U.S. This wasn鈥檛 a German sedan. Problem was, Volkswagen wasn鈥檛 going to become the top automaker in the world without U.S. 1 million sales each year. And the Jetta was the volume car that could compete on price across a wide array of vehicles, while contributing significant profit to the bottom line. 26,000, according to Edmunds at the time. At the time, the strategy behind the 2011 Jetta was to compete via website comparison tools by spreading the price point into favorable segments and letting the numbers do the talking.
Meanwhile, hard plastic, solid rear-axle suspensions, and stunted powertrains ruled. Since the 2011 model year, Volkswagen has re-oriented the Jetta toward a higher quality and more dynamically capable sedan, which is what I think people want and expect from a VW anyway. In fact, today鈥檚 Jetta is a far cry from the 2011 sell-a-thon model. The Volkswagen Clean Diesel TDI. A global scandal built on deception. If you鈥檙e unaware, in order to gain a competitive advantage, VW installed emissions testing 鈥渄efeat devices鈥?on a half-million diesel-powered cars in the U.S., and on around 10.5 million worldwide. These devices could detect when an emissions test was being conducted and then switch the vehicle鈥檚 powertrain to a clean mode of operation, one that would pass the test. During actual driving, however, another mode was used that improved performance but emitted higher nitrogen-oxide (NOx) emissions. I鈥檓 not sure that any VW executive has ever really answered that one simple question. But no matter鈥t no doubt has something to do with becoming King of the Car World. Such a simple question. And yet the answer is so complicated. Did you find this article helpful? If so, please share it using the "Join the Conversation" buttons below, and thank you for visiting Daily News Autos.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - German automaker Volkswagen had record sales of 10.74 million vehicles last year, but its bid to remain the world's largest carmaker was disputed by rival Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi. Volkswagen's sales rose 4.3 percent from 10.30 million in 2016, when the company passed Japan's Toyota to become the globe's largest auto producer for that year. The figures show the Wolfsburg-based company continuing its effort to move past a scandal that broke in September 2015 over cars it had rigged to cheat on diesel emissions tests. Sales last year were boosted by a strong December, when sales rose 8.5 percent. For the year, the company saw big jumps in Russia and Brazil, and significant gains in China and the United States. Following a press conference, members of the media photograph the 2019 Volkswagen Jetta at the North American International Auto Show Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018, in Detroit. CEO Matthias Mueller said in a statement. Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, told a committee of the French National Assembly that his group was the world's biggest with 10.6 million vehicles last year, the French business publication Les Echos reported. Ghosn said that 200,000 of Volkswagen's vehicles were trucks that should not count. Toyota estimated in December that it sold 10.35 million vehicles last year. Final figures are expected around the end of January or the beginning of February.
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