VW picks Tennessee to build new Camry and Accord rival

I think this was one of the reasons VW looked in the US, more educated people to work in these factories.

— atomicbri (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 12:21:37 PM | | Votes: 1   

atomicbri, Tennessee!?! J/K, LOL

— 0to60 (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 12:57:40 PM | | Votes: 0   

But that was an ignorant statement atomicbri

— 0to60 (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 12:58:39 PM | | Votes: 1   

Actually no it wasn't, VW even said themselves they needed a bit more qualified workers and engineers and the problems in the Puebla Mexico plant was the lack of educated and professionally trained people. Mexico had originally stated they would offer tech courses and such to the people, but never did.

As fo 0to60 I have many friends from TN and let me tell you, Vanderbilt is a great school as well as UTK with many great educational programs. My point was that here in the US, TN had agreed with VW to start specialized courses in teaching production courses, manufacturing courses, etc. The Mexican govt never went through with these original plans (I have an insider friend at VW and he told me this was an issue with some of the quality issues in Mexico...lack of trained workers and they were having to train them on the job,,, not such a good idea, but they had no choice to since they had already spent $100Ms into the plant there)

— atomicbri (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 1:38:29 PM | | Votes: 2   

I wish VW all the best in their efforts. It's pretty sad, though, when someone wants only negative things to happen to people. Kind of reveals the headspace they're in.

— _43LE (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 3:30:36 PM | | Votes: 4   

They're going to need more than your permission.

— M35MT (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 4:43:44 PM | | Votes: 2   

Well the Passat already has a myriad of features that add to the price and complexity that the buyer doesn't see.

— Agent009 (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 12:38:35 PM | | Votes: 2   

Hopefully high-speed stability isn't sacrificed.

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 12:57:55 PM | | Votes: 1   

"Hopefully high-speed stability isn't sacrificed."

Hopefully not like first generation Audi TT with their severe high-speed stability problems that caused fatal high-speed crashes .

— abcd (View Profile)

Posted on 7/16/2008 6:27:54 AM | | Votes: 0   

Still not as bad as those Polish cars though, right?

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 7/16/2008 12:44:44 PM | | Votes: 2   

Right , and not as bad as those east germany cars also ( trabant , wartburg ) . But not big progress , trabant and wartburg were safer at their top speeds - though their top speed was lower due to not sacrifice safety .

— abcd (View Profile)

Posted on 7/16/2008 4:22:34 PM | | Votes: 1   

Elaborate.... if you would please.... ; )

— atomicbri (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 8:20:13 PM | | Votes: 0   

I think price was more important than any reliability concerns. In that market price point and payment are the key factors.

— Agent009 (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 2:33:41 PM | | Votes: 1   

anyone expecting to compete against camry and accord HAS TO GIVE reliability high consideration.

both those cars remain more trouble free at 8 years of age, than ANY rivals only 1/2 as old. and vw has always been LESS reliable than average to begin with.

vw can compete against the malibu and the koreans. they'll never get camcord owners to switch. ever.

— ChicaneShooter (View Profile)

Posted on 7/16/2008 3:38:47 AM | | Votes: -1   

Building cars in the US will allow VW to avoid the price increases that result from the out of whack exchange rate between the dollar and the Euro. The upshot of this is that the product will be just as well engineered and built, but will be more competitive on price.

— MattB (View Profile)

Posted on 7/15/2008 9:37:41 PM | | Votes: 3