VW's New US Plant To Source At Least 80% Of Its Parts Locally

brilliant idea. FULLY improve the customer service reliability, being back boxy styling and TDI, then I'll take a looksee at 'em.

God I hope that they build it in NC. We have been rather depressed locally with so many textile factories being shipped overseas. That along with the demise of tobacco and the furniture industries it would be great to have a real auto industry here. All of the other states that they are considering already build cars for one company or another already.

Sorry Nite. I hope VW comes to ATL. They can move into the old ford plant and it's near the airport.

Just a little competition.

I thought it was common knowledge they were going to build in NC, near Greenville (eastern) is what I hear...

Wow! That is big news, Agent 009, you should receive a medal for such groundbreaking contributions.

Yawn...what?

Unles VW starts designing better and more reliable cars this plant is unnecessary.

TurboSpyder:
"http://www.freewebs.com/car_stuff_vw/VW_Appreciation_Page.htm"
oooo... second propaganda site from TurboSpyder(Midengine) . could you tell us your other projects ?

not only on this , hire are your two propaganda sites :
1)http://www.freewebs.com/car_stuff_vw/VW_Appreciation_Page.htm
2)
http://www.freewebs.com/not_pc_facts/JapaneseCopy.htm
You copy paste from various sites some segregated textes ,tests,photos that fit to your "theories" that giving overall untrue presentment.

i think you TurboSpyder don`t learning in school and every think that is invented you invent for the next time and then you do somethink or invent somethink new (if you learn in school you copy someone inventions and knowledge) .
your citation:
"Japan became isolated from western technological development, and after the war 'Japan faced a huge 'backlog' of technologies **to be imported**.' (Goto 1993: 279)."
i think there were later also some technologies exported .
ferdinand porsche who in germany designed first volkswagen also "imported"(practically copied Hans Ledwinka tatra T97, tatra sued volkswagen and volkswagen payed DM3,000,000 after war) technology . if germany would been isolated there very probably not be VW and porsches today(porches to today`s are based on that same design invented by Hans Ledwinka).
the whole think is not doing the same(copy) and innovate no mater when e.g. japanese automakers build their position becouse they innovate in terms of reliability and quality what european and american automakers do much later .

TurboSpyder like i said:
"You copy paste from various sites some segregated textes ,tests,photos that fit to your "theories" that giving overall untrue presentment."
and example from this your site:
http://www.freewebs.com/not_pc_facts/JapaneseCopy.htm
you say austin 7 was copied by datsun but austin 7 was also copied under license by bmw and this was first bmw called dixi and by french Rosengart as his first car .
ps : austin 7 have copied from cadillac type 53 modern loyaut(three pedals for foots , gear lever and hand brake in the middle of the front two seats and key started ignition)

i said:"you say austin 7 was copied by datsun but austin 7 was also copied under license by bmw and this was first bmw called dixi and by french Rosengart as his first car ."

isn`t this importing technology by germans and french too? only few years earlier.
TurboSpyder about coping rolls:
"http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6355/toyotalimo1500eb5.jpg"
i think when this car would be for sold nobody would buy it and would "die" , but it is looking differently than rolls , i say it has rather british character mixed with japanese.
TurboSpyder:
"The difference is that Japanese car companies (as the Chinese guy pointed out above) have been copying for decades and not just one or two isolated examples."
what do you think this chinese guy can say if he only want to make money but not good cars , he must justify himself . for decades ? there are only few japanese copy and mainly in term of design , lexus ls430 i say was a copy of design from mercedes s , there was mazda rx-7 that was design copy of porsche 9...somethink(i don`t remember) but completly different from technology site ->wankel engine . tell us others if you know .
ps. from today readed magazine i fink out that 1968 opel gt(from germany) was design copy of corvette.

TurboSpyder datsun also later pay license payment to austin.
TurboSpyder:
"What about the rest of the cars that I pointed out on my web page? The second generation Lexus LS430 is almost a perfect styling clone of the 1990's Mercedes S-Class"
i said above that ls430 was a design copy:
"lexus ls430 i say was a copy of design from mercedes s"
strange think is that ls430 have even VERY similar rims to s class . they wanted to ls430 look similar to merc s . that`s why i don`t like lexis ls even if that new ls460 have nothing copied from merc s .
TurboSpyder:
"Princes engineers had taken an deep hard look at the Mercedes engines of the early 60's, and had come up with some nifty little SOHC engine designs of their own.”
was only prince engineers that were learning on merc engines?mercedes i think have then one of the best engines . if this would been blatant copy i think mercedes would sued prince . not so long ago bmw sued nissan even for trivial using M in infinity model name . remember that petrol engines generally are similar one to other . in mercedes i think have been working the best engineers from europe not only germany like you think e.g.Béla Barényi-did more for mercedes(practically build mercedes mark as innovator) then germans did later without him . in japan i doubt there are working many engineers from outside japan , becouse who know this language to live there , only asians.
about nissan and autin engines:
http://www.earlydatsun.com/austin.html
"But to call the Nissan engines built after the Austin agreement a blatant copy would be to sell them considerably short. Yes they were based heavily on the Austin designs, but they also made significant changes to the designs. The Nissan engines were built with a degree of engineering precision the British couldn't come close to matching. The British engines were notoriously oil leakers (the old standard joke was Q/ how do you tell if an Austin needs oil A/ it's stopped leaking ) , but even 40+ years down the track old Nissan engines just don't leak oil. The other thing the did was significantly improve the cylinder head and manifold design, Nissan engines all produce more power than their Austin equals. (for example 1965 Fairlady 1600 = 96hp, 1965 MGB 1800 = 95hp, or 1966 Datsun Bluebird SS 1299 = 77hp, 1966 Austin Healey Sprite 1275 = 48hp etc.) The other thing Nissan had that Austin lacked was reliability, the Austin engines weren't bad mind you, it's just that the Nissan versions were practically indestructible. The biggest impact Nissan made on overall vehicle reliability was it's use of Japanese made electrical components. Nissan's electrical component suppliers such as Hitachi, EverWing, Mitsubishi Electrical, Niles and Myamoto supplied 100% reliable and totally dependable parts, Austin has Lucas."
TurboSpyder:
"Cameras"
this poratal isn`t about electronics and i`m not very interested in electronics but if you want:
sony did first walkman and it was copied by companies in

whole world from this what i know.

TurboSpyder - can you show other then some early datsuns and lexuses ls430 copies . what about honda , subaru , acura , infinity , mitsubishi , mazda (in exception rx-7 design and mx-5 overall conception), later nissans(exception 92-02 micra like mini but it hasn`t mini badge like bmw with paid for mini badge) , toyotas , suzukis ?

"abcd, have a look at this video at the 1:23 mark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91WVgzP_XS0"

driving competition cars definitely isn`t coping . what they copied? suspension , engine,styling,chassis?i know they copied becouse at the end of projecting this car they was tuning suspension to be better than bmw 335(but i`m not saying it`s better).

VW all the way!