“I am very pleased we have been able to safeguard the future of Osnabrück as a car making location. Osnabrück has enormous potential. The strengths of the employees and their comprehensive enormous know-how, for example in building cabriolets, are a perfect fit for Volkswagen Osnabrück as part of the wider Volkswagen Group,” said German President Christian Wulff.
The carmaker’s facility in Osnabruck covers the entire process chain from vehicle development, through tooling and onto production. Apart from the Golf Cabriolet it is also planned to use the plant as an overflow facility for manufacturing the Porsche brand Boxster and Cayman models in the near future. Osnabruck has a total annual capacity of roughly 100,000 vehicles. Volkswagen has plans in place to invest approximately €300 million there by the end of this year.
“As premier I am particularly delighted that Volkswagen now has six locations in Lower Saxony and produces in Osnabrück as well as in Wolfsburg, Hanover, Emden, Brunswick and Salzgitter. Osnabrück’s long car making tradition is being continued. Volkswagen Osnabrück will establish itself in the Group as a competence centre for small series vehicles,” Premier McAllister commented.
The President, Lower Saxony’s Premier David McAllister, Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Horst Neumann, Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft responsible for Human Resources, and Bernd Wehlauer - Deputy Chairman of the Volkswagen Group Works Council, were all at the plant to open production of the new-generation Golf Cabriolet.
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