Volkswagen considering offering Polo in U.S. market

Volkswagen considering substance traveller in U.S. market

Posted Jul 18th 2008 3:33PM by friend Lavrinc
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchbacks, Volkswagen

The Rabbit is currently the most fuel-efficient gasoline-powered container in Volkswagen’s U.S. fleet, try around 26 mpg on the EPA’s compounded city/highway cycle. But V-Dub wants something meliorate for the U.S. market. Speaking with Bloomberg, VW CEO, Stefan Jacoby revealed that the maker is considering transfer a auto vehicle, kindred to the Polo, to the U.S.

With the Toyota Yaris rated at 32 mpg and the Honda Fit reaching in at 31 mpg (combined city/highway), Volkswagen is hoping to foregather or top the competition. While it’s implausible we’ll wager the underway traveller on U.S. shores anytime soon, it’s due that the incoming procreation module be acquirable in the States in 2010 when the newborn Jetta is released, followed by a newborn midsize litter that module change the Passat.

The additions and revisions to VW’s creation distinction is an try by the maker to increase U.S. income to 800,000 units by 2018, nearly tripling the 230,571 vehicles it oversubscribed in 2007. VW is also hunting to physique a newborn engine being in Mexico, along with its fresh declared river plant.

[Source: Bloomberg]

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