{"id":47181,"date":"2009-11-23T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/23\/report-volkswagen-confirms-karmann-purchase-plans-to-build-new\/"},"modified":"2009-11-23T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T14:32:00","slug":"report-volkswagen-confirms-karmann-purchase-plans-to-build-new-car-at-factory-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47181","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Volkswagen confirms Karmann purchase, plans to build new car at factory in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/euro\/\" rel=\"tag\">Europe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/plants-manufacturing\/\" rel=\"tag\">Plants\/Manufacturing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/volkswagen\/\" rel=\"tag\">Volkswagen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/23\/report-volkswagen-confirms-karmann-purchase-plans-to-build-new\/europe.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20091120\/ANE\/911209997\/131%207\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/karmann-ghia-724944-630op.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/volkswagen\/\">Volkswagen AG<\/a> has announced it will be establishing a new manufacturing unit in Osnabrueck, located in VW&#8217;s home state of Lower Saxony, Germany. Interestingly enough, VW will be purchasing the land, equipment, and machinery formerly owned by Karmann &#8212; the coachbuilder and convertible roof specialists who manufactured the classic Beetle-based Karmann Ghia coupe (Karmann filed for bankruptcy protection in April, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/10\/26\/report-vw-bids-to-save-karmann-but-coachbuilder-holding-out-for\/\">has been struggling since<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Production of a new vehicle at the plant is slated to start in 2011. In the meantime, 200 people will be needed to open the plant next year, and VW is estimating more than 1,000 new jobs will be created by 2014. Volkswagen AG has not disclosed which model will be built at the plant, or any financial details. <\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/europe.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20091120\/ANE\/911209997\/131%207\">Automotive News<\/a> &#8211; Sub. Req.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/23\/report-volkswagen-confirms-karmann-purchase-plans-to-build-new\/\">REPORT: Volkswagen confirms Karmann purchase, plans to build new car at factory in 2011<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:32:00 EST.  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Interestingly enough, VW will be purchasing the land, equipment, and machinery formerly owned by Karmann &#8212; the coachbuilder and convertible roof specialists who manufactured the classic Beetle-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}