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Volkswagen says it will build a mid-size, seven-passenger crossover SUV at its Chattanooga, Tenn., factory in 2016, adding 2,000 jobs and helping VW plug a hole in its U.S. lineup. In simultaneous announcements today at Chattanooga and VW's Wolfsburg, Germany, corporate headquarters, the automaker said it also will establish an "independent National Research & Development and Planning Center of the Volkswagen Group of America" at Chattanooga, intended to better include U.S. priorities in vehicles. About 200 engineers will work there. "The Volkswagen brand is going on the attack again in America," said Martin Winterkorn, chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, the parent company, in Wolfsburg.
Volkswagen says it will build a mid-size, seven-passenger crossover SUV at its Chattanooga, Tenn., factory in 2016, adding 2,000 jobs and helping VW plug a hole in its U.S. lineup. In simultaneous announcements today at Chattanooga and VW's Wolfsburg, Germany, corporate headquarters, the automaker said it also will establish an "independent National Research & Development and Planning Center of the Volkswagen Group of America" at Chattanooga, intended to better include U.S. priorities in vehicles. About 200 engineers will work there. "The Volkswagen brand is going on the attack again in America," said Martin Winterkorn, chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, the parent company, in Wolfsburg.
