Volkswagen AG, long an adherent to the virtues and benefits of mass production, is taking a new shine to niche vehicles built in relatively small volumes.
In its Autoeuropa plant in Palmela, a short drive outside of Lisbon, Portugal, VW is now building three different vehicles - the VW Sharan and SEAT Alhambra minivans and the new VW Eos - in relatively small numbers. Next year, VW will start to build a fourth vehicle, the reborn VW Scirocco, in the same plant, which has maximum capacity of 160,000 units annually.
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