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Volkswagen Expands in Russia |
Volkswagen is growing by buying new brands and building new facilities. In the end of 2007 the company built an assembly plant in Kaluga, Russia where it started building Volkswagen Passat and Skoda Oktavia.
From the beginning the German automaker planned to expand the capacity by 2009 and assemble up to 150,000 vehicles in the facility. The 10,000 sq m building is going to give jobs to 3,000 workers by the end of this year. The representative of Volkswagen Group Rus, Natalia Gorelikova, says that at this moment the plant assembles 14 VW models including Golf VI and Touareg and several of Skoda cars.
The manufacturer is planning to start working with such marques as Seat, Bentley, Lamborghini and Scania at the facility in the nearest future. There have also been talks about bringing Audi to the Russian plant.
The vehicles will be delivered to Russian and foreign dealerships and VW promises that their price range will not exceed $10,000 for Russian customers.
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