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According to a story circulated today by Reuters, Audi is to build its new A1 compact in the VAG Brussels factory that is to lose Golf production next year because of falling sales. According to Reuter’s informant, identified simply as ‘a source familiar with the matter’, production will begin in 2009 at the rate of 100,000 units a year. If this is true, Audi will have got its partner out of a scrape: the last thing Volkswagen needs at the moment is a damaging confrontation with an angry and potentially militant workforce.
Now that Audi boss, Martin Winterkorn, has been confirmed for the big seat on the Volkswagen-Audi board, I suspect there will soon be other examples of Ingoldstat’s emerging primacy.
