Volkswagen's Chattanooga workforce now numbers 500, with some of employees now actually building cars.
Workers in the body shop are currently building the pre-series version of the new midsized sedan by hand.
It will be a few months before they complete the first vehicle using German prototype parts. VW Chattanooga CEO Frank Fischer says "and now the next step is to take the supplier parts, the first parts coming from the suppliers and build the vehicles here so this is kind of an approval process, training process, debugging process whatever you call it in order to get more experience with the car and more experience with the factory."
Members of Volkswagen's Board of Directors traveled to Chattanooga to review the plant earlier this week. Fischer says they're pleased with the speed the plant is coming together.
Construction remains on track for a summer completion.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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