Volkswagen has a few problems in China. The biggest one is finding more customers for the vehicles it produces in China with its joint venture partners. Turkey could help with that, and the German automaker seems interested in local assembly of Chinese-developed models with Dogus Otomotiv.
This arrangement would offer the Wolfsburg-based group another way to use production capacity that its Chinese business no longer needs as badly due to shrinking demand in the People's Republic of China. During the first nine months of 2026, the group delivered 1.38 million vehicles in the PRC, down a whopping 30 percent from the same period last year.
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