Tennessee Waltzing Up Production Ladder as VW Chooses Chattanooga

Expect Tennessee to become the continent’s sixth-largest vehicle assembly region when production begins at Volkswagen Group of America Inc.’s new site in Chattanooga.

VW announces today that it will spend $1 billion on a greenfield plant in Tennessee to further the auto maker’s goal of tripling its U.S. customer base in the next decade. Scheduled to launch production in 2011, the plant will ...