VW 集團買了一個兩輪的品牌 Ducati (是 VW 旗下的 Audi 買的)，看來世界第一的位子指日可待。歷史顯示英國和美國公司無法好好經營多品牌汽車廠。英國只剩 Aston Martin 仍是英國人所有，其他的車廠都賣給外國了。而美國廠都只剩下一半的品牌，括號內的品牌停產或已出售。
GM 有 Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, [Daewoo, Geo, Hummer, Opel/Vauxhall, Oldsmobile, Saab, Saturn]
Ford 有 Mercury, Lincoln, [Aston Martin, Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar]
VW 現在有 Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, Lamborghini, MAN, SEAT, Giugiaro, Škoda, & Scania.
旗下有兩輪的車廠(量產規模)有 Honda, Suzuki, BMW, PSA, VW。
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2012/04/18/add-ducati-motorcycles-to-volkswagens-insatiable-appetite-for-growth/ 擴廠方面，上個月就宣布了墨西哥 (Audi) 與中國的新投資計畫，分別要投入 10 億與 2.24 億美元興建新廠。此外明(2012)年也要投資葡萄牙 2 億歐元建廠。還有去(2011)年十月宣布的 34 億歐元投資巴西。
Caracas, Wednesday
May 2,2012
VW to Invest $1 Billion in Mexico Over Next 3 YearsMEXICO CITY – German auto-making giant Volkswagen said it plans to invest $1 billion in Mexico over the next three years and that that country is also a possible option for a new engine plant in North America.
VW executive Jochem Heizmann, a member of Volkswagen AG’s executive board, made the announcement during a ceremony to inaugurate a new section of Volkswagen de Mexico’s plant in the central Mexican city of Puebla, where a special version of the company’s Jetta model will be manufactured.
The company said that “under ‘Strategy 2018,’” plans are to invest up to $1 billion in Mexico over the next three years.
Referring to the new engine plant, Heizmann said Mexico is the company’s first option and it hopes to announce its final decision shortly.
The VW production chief added that the new plant “is to supply our factories in Puebla and Chattanooga with the latest generation of engines from 2013. These engines will set the benchmark in terms of consumption and emissions.”
Referring to the expansion of the Puebla plant, Heizmann said the project “is a major step toward the future for Volkswagen in Mexico. As a result, Puebla remains the main supplier of compact-class vehicles in North America.”
At the ceremony, Volkswagen de Mexico CEO Otto Lindner said the new Jetta will be a “special contribution” to the celebration of the bicentenary of Mexico’s independence and added that “more than 70 percent of the parts installed in the Jetta come from Mexican suppliers.”
He added that the vehicle is equipped with an unprecedented amount of parts developed and designed “by our more than 900 Mexican engineers.”
Volkswagen’s plant in Puebla, some 125 kilometers (77 miles) from the Mexican capital, has an annual production capacity of 525,000 units and is “one of the largest car manufacturing plants in the Volkswagen group.”
The press release said a portion of the $1 billion to be invested over the next three years will go to “constructing a new production plant for the Beetle successor.” EFE
Volkswagen to invest $225 million in new Chinese plantReuters – Mon, Apr 23, 2012
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen , the world's second largest carmaker, will invest about 170 million euros ($225 million) building a new plant in Urumqi, western China, capable of making 50,000 vehicles annually starting 2015, the company said on Monday.
VW's two Chinese joint ventures are investing a total of 14 billion euros by 2016, and the German-based group has said in the past its annual production capacity in China would rise to 3 million cars as early as next year.
Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn had told reporters in January that Beijing had approached the carmaker, the first to enter China, with the request to consider extending its substantial manufacturing footprint to the western part of the country.
Urumqi is the capital of the province Xinjiang, a relatively poor part of the China where there are ethnic tensions between the Muslim Uighurs and the Han Chinese.
The relatively modest investment sum and production capacity reflect the risks.Compared with the 50,000 cars that Volkswagen and local partner Shanghai Automotive (SAIC) intend to build in Urumqi, VW-SAIC plan to build six times as many in a new plant in Yizheng near Nanjing near China's wealthy eastern coast.
Winterkorn referred in a statement to a "30-year success story" that united Volkswagen and China.
"As a pioneer of the Chinese automotive industry we gave important momentum to China's industrial development and to German-Sino economic relations," he said.
He added: "Together with our partners we will now carry this pioneering spirit into Western China as well."
Volkswagen also said that it agreed to extend the joint venture formed in 1991 with FAW, its second Chinese local partner, by a further 25 years.
The two had announced in June 2010 they would invest about 520 million euros to build a plant near Guangzhou, VW's first in southern China, which can build as many as 300,000 vehicles.
(Reporting by Christiaan Hetzner; Editing by Helen Massy-Beresford)
