Uitenhage

Volkswagen South Africa has now built 200 000 sixth-gen Polo units!

Volkswagen Group South Africa says the 200 000th example of the sixth-generation Polo has rolled off the production line at its Uitenhage plant in the Eastern Cape. The local arm of the Wolfsburg-based firm says 153 582 units were exported and 46 418 were produced for the SA market, with production ...

Volkswagen SA says Uitenhage production is 'maxed out'...

The head of Volkswagen Group South Africa says production at the Uitenhage plant is “maxed out”, with the local automaker heading for a record year in terms of number of vehicles built.Speaking to Engineering News, VW SA CEO Thomas Schäfer revealed the firm was on target to produce nearly 162 000 ...

VW SA to boost Uitenhage plant’s annual capacity

Volkswagen South Africa says it expects to produce 133 000 vehicles at its Uitenhage plant in 2018, up from 110 000 in 2017.This year, the local arm of the Wolfsburg-based brand plans to export 83 000 of those units to various global markets, including some left-hand drive countries (particularly now ...

VW SA preps Uitenhage plant for new MQB model

Volkswagen Group South Africa says it has installed some 320 new robots at its Uitenhage factory as part of the R4,5-billion investment announced in 2015.The 320 new Kuka-branded robots have been added to the plant's body shop, with VW SA saying they will "form an integral part of the Modular Transverse ...

SA plant rated top factory in VW's global network

Volkswagen's Uitenhage factory has been rated the top manufacturing plant in the German brand's global production network, the first time it has managed to do so in its 64-year history.For 2015, Volkswagen Group South Africa's plant achieved the highest index score (a whopping 113,2%) of the 13 VW plants ...