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Audi: No Decision Yet on N. American Plant
Volkswagen AG's Audi unit denies a report last week by Der Spiegel claiming the carmaker has chosen Mexico as the site of its first North American assembly plant.
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Volkswagen AG's Audi unit denies a report last week by Der Spiegel claiming the carmaker has chosen Mexico as the site of its first North American assembly plant.
The German magazine, which cites no sources, says Audi's board will finalize the Mexico plan when it meets on April 18, and the company will begin making the Q5 crossover there in 2015. An Audi spokesman says only that no final decision has been made.
Germany's Manager Magazin reported last July that VW would prefer to build its own plant in Mexico rather than share the company's new plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Audi has said it will choose a location for a plant somewhere in North America by summer. The unit also has emphasized that Audi and VW vehicles currently ride on separate platforms and could not be easily be assembled on lines set up for VW's own models. VW makes Passat sedans in Tennessee and Beetle coupes and Jetta sedans in Puebla, Mexico.
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