Thursday, July 21, 2011
Volkswagen Mexico starts production of the Volkswagen Beetle
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Volkswagen has officially started production of the new Beetle in Puebla, Mexico. On this occasion Dr. Guido Westerwelle, the Federal Foreign Minister, Felipe Calder�n, the Mexican President, and Hubert Waltl, Board Member for Production and Logistics at the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand, visited the Volkswagen plant in Mexico.
�The Beetle is a strong symbol of our brand. It combines the emotional heritage of the original Beetle with the future of Volkswagen,� Hubert Waltl said in Puebla. �At the same time, the new Beetle and the engine plant we are building in Silao represent the great confidence we place in Mexico as a manufacturing location. As one of the main manufacturers of compact class vehicles, Volkswagen de M�xico is a key building block in our growth strategy for North America.� Some 300 guests from politics and industry attended the ceremony in Puebla.
The Beetle wrote a success story in the USA in particular: That is where the mobility icon from Wolfsburg was sold almost five million times between 1949 and 1981. The New Beetle took up the thread of this Beetle Mania, with a total of 1.15 million units built in Puebla selling between 1997 and 2010. The latest Beetle celebrated its world premiere in April this year and will be in dealers� showrooms in Germany from this fall.
The Puebla plant is the largest automobile factory in Mexico and one of the Volkswagen Group�s biggest vehicle manufacturing plants. It supplies North and South America as well as Europe with the new Jetta volume model. The Beetle and Golf Variant are built exclusively by Volkswagen de M�xico for world markets. In 2010, the factory produced some 435,000 vehicles. Puebla also manufactures engines for the American continent and with its workforce of over 15,000 is one of Mexican industry�s largest employers.
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The cautious design of this tweaks have a lower profile and the windscreen, which has moved further back. New Beetle is 3.3 inches wide and 6 cm longer than its predecessor car. It is 71.2 inches wide and 168.4 cm in length. Volkswagen said in a statement that the reform of the car was to be free from "Beetle design geometry is defined by three semicircles (front wing, rear wing, the curved roof above it.) Employees referred to this as" Mickey Mouse "looks , because the car design seemed borrowed from three circles to create a face famous cartoon character.
Even the car cabin in 2012 Volkswagen Beetle based on car elements of the original Beetle. For example, the New Beetle glove box Spare integrated into the dashboard. It is also equipped with a split folding rear seat.
Volkswagen of America said in a statement that the 2012-Beetle will offer three carr engines: a gasoline engine of 170 horsepower 2.5-liter five-cylinder, a 140-hp 2.0-liter four-cylinder TDI clean diesel and a 200 -hp 2.0 - liter four-cylinder TSI turbo petrol. Transmission choices include a five-speed manual or optional six-speed automatic on the 2.5-liter car models. Six-speed DSG double clutch will be an option on 2.0-liter TDI and TSI car models.
2012 Beetle TDI model will be the chief fuel economy, according to VW. Is expected to return 29 mpg city and 40 mpg on the highway. The EPA has not evaluated the Beetle 2012. The 2.5-liter Beetle is estimated at 22 mpg city and 31 mpg on the highway back, Volkswagen said. The sporty 2.0-liter TSI Beetle should return 30 mpg on the highway, Volkswagen said. Do not assign a rating to the model sports city car. |  |
The reason for the conservative design approach can probably be found in statistics on the Volkswagen Beetle original. He said he sold about 5 million original Beetles in the U.S. alone, between 1949-'79. By way of comparison, has sold the 477,347 New Beetle in the United States from 1998 to 2010. Volkswagen said it has built more than 22.5 million Beetles worldwide since the car starts.
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2012 Beetle will arrive in North America, and only then the car will be launched in Europe in October and in Asia in February 2012.
