Volkswagen logo Volkswagen Officially Revealed Chakan Plant Today In IndiaAs we said earlier, Volkswagen officially declared today that it will start production at its new Chakan plant placed near Pune. Chakan plant has an annual production capacity of 110000 units and it was build with an investment of Rs 3800 Crore.

Volkswagen will build Skoda Fabia, New Polo and A Polo based Sedan at the Chakan plant.

“The Pune plant will begin building the Skoda Fabia compact car in May,” a VW statement said.

“Production of a hatchback version of the Volkswagen Polo specially developed for the Indian market will be added from 2010,” the statement added.

Chakan plant sports a flexible assembly line which means Volkswagen Group brands – Audi, Skoda, Volkswagen will make a range of cars here.

“Thanks to the local production of Volkswagen and Skoda models in Pune, we will benefit even more from enormous growth on the Indian automobile market in future,” VW board member Jochem Heizmann said at the opening ceremony.

Kindly Send Your Resume to recruitment.india@volkswagen.de

Once the company starts its production at the Chakan plant, Fabia will be localized up to 50 percent in three years from the present 15 percent means you get value for money Fabia soon to you. What you say?

 

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