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Archive for August, 2008

2001 Volkswagen Beetle GLS review from North America (Carsurvey.org)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
"I will NEVER purchase a volkswagon ever again!!!" What things have gone wrong with the car?

Chattanooga: Manufacturing fortune driven by VW (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
After losing nearly one-fourth of its factory jobs since the year 2000, Chattanooga is poised for a rebound in manufacturing employment over the next decade.

Commerzbank, Allianz, Volkswagen, Bayer: German Equity Preview (Bloomberg.com)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies may have unusual price changes in Germany. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are from the previous close.

Chattanooga: Coppinger to focus on VW, education (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
New Hamilton County Commission Chairman Jim Coppinger said his experience as Chattanooga’s fire chief will be a big boost for him as he takes the helm of the county’s legislative body. Working as chief helped teach him how to work with people and talk through problems, he said.

New commission Chairman Coppinger looking toward VW, education (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
New Hamilton County Commission Chairman Jim Coppinger said his experience as Chattanooga’s fire chief will be a big boost to him as he takes the helm of the county’s legislative body.

Feels like Brigadoon (Boston Globe)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
THREE MILE BAY, N.Y. - Tonight, home is a tent in Long Point State Park, on a peninsula jutting into Lake Ontario. The neighbors include four women and a dog in a big tent with an American flag staked out front, two young couples in VW Vanagon campers, and an older man in an RV bedecked with Christmas lights. It's ...

Porsche, VW lovers invade former Mansfield prison (Mansfield News Journal)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
MANSFIELD -- His neighbors call him "The Volkswagen guy."

Volkswagen to boost local incomes (Daily News Journal)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Tennessee Commissioner of Economic and Community Development Matt Kisber released an analysis of the Volkswagen project in Chattanooga which shows the recently-announced assembly plant will boost incomes in the region by $511.1 million dollars annually and generate more than $55 million dollars annually in new tax revenues for both the state and local governments.

INSIDE DETROIT AUTOS: VW says it passed Ford for 3rd place (Detroit Free Press)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Ford Motor Co. lost its third-place spot in the global sales rankings for the first half of the year. So says the Volkswagen Group. Volkswagen delivered 3.31 million vehicles during the first half of 2008, up 7.2%. Ford delivered 3.22 million cars and trucks through June, down from 3.42 million vehicles during the same period a year ago.

Chattanooga: VW site work in high gear (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

Saturday, August 30th, 2008
At first, they met around the hood of a car.

 
 

 


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