VW Mexico Sees Short-Term Hit from Scandal Expatica
go to original September 24, 2015

Volkswagen's emission scandal worsens (CBS Evening News)

Update: VW Board Vows to 'Get to Bottom' of Scandal, Orders Shake Up (USA Today)

A Mexican state home to a major Volkswagen factory that exports to the United States expects a short-term impact to production following the German firm's pollution-cheating scandal.

It comes just months after a May announcement that the German automaker would invest $1 billion to expand the sprawling plant in the central state of Puebla.

Other manufacturers have also ramped up production in Mexico in recent years, vaulting the country into seventh place among auto-producing nations.

"Obviously a situation like this one will have a short-term impact on sales and export capacity, and, as a result, on production at the Puebla factory," Puebla Governor Rafael Moreno Valle said.

...The company faces a US criminal investigation and worldwide legal action after admitting that as many as 11 million of its diesel cars are equipped with software capable of fooling official pollution tests.

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