Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably know that most major auto manufacturers have scaled back production of their products due to dwindling sales. That’s not true with VW cars, however.
Volkswagen announced earlier today that it plans to “boost production at its new U.S. plant and its Mexican plant as part of a push to triple its U.S. sales by 2018.” The automaker has a goal of increasing sales to 800,000 units per year by 2018 in the United States alone. As such, the company has decided to increase production in order to achieve this lofty goal.
If everything goes according to plan, the automaker will produce 300,000 VW cars in the United States. In addition, it will import about 375,000 from Mexico and 125,000 from plants in Europe.
Increasing sales in the United States market, according to Volkswagen, is crucial to the automaker’s global expansion. That is why Europe’s largest automaker is building a new manufacturing plant in Tennessee for producing a mid-size sedan beginning in 2011.
Before long, you will see many more VW cars on the roads and highways around you. It’s nice to see that some auto companies are still planning for a profitable future while others are essentially begging for money just to stay in business.
