VW to suspend production at showcase Phaeton plant

BERLIN (Reuters) -- Volkswagen will suspend production at its modest case factory in the German town of Dresden next year as the car-maker changes its version strategy to cut prices in the aftermath of the discharges evaluation scandal.
Volkswagen said in October it would discontinue manufacturing of the Phaeton sedan, which will be assembled in the glass-walled plant in the eastern state-of Saxony. The design -- a pet-project of former Chairman Ferdinand Piech which cost over 1 1-billion euros ($1.1 billion) to create -- has never met revenue goals since coming to market in 2002.
Creation of the Phaeton, gathered by 300 of the Dresden plant's 500 employees, will finish in late March. The website, the tiniest of Volkswagen's 10 German factories, will subsequently be reconfigured for in regards to annually to get ready for making an all-electrical Phaeton by about 20-19.
"Creation in Dresden is going to be frozen through the restructuring period," Jens Rothe, head of the works council of Volkswagen's businesses in Saxony, stated on Wednesday, including the plant could be given a fresh merchandise for when it reopens, ensuring "occupation will in future be guaranteed on today's amount".
Volkswagen has vowed to expand its offers of hybrid and all-electric automobiles as its rigging of U.S. diesel emissions evaluations is viewed by analysts as throwing a shadow over the whole diesel vehicle sector.
Volkswagen said on Wednesday that, as intended, it'd begin changing numerous diesel automobiles by the end of January to ensure they matched discharges regulations. The program calls for recalling 8.5 million automobiles across European Union countries, including 2.4 million in Germany.
Analysts have long anticipated cutbacks in Dresden where out-put of the most high-priced VW-badged version has dropped to about eight vehicles per day as a result of poor demand. Production sections of the plant have all-parquet floors with employees wearing white uniforms, or even even white gloves as they assemble automobiles by hand.
The planned creation shutdown, declared at a staff party, gels with strategies by Europe's biggest automaker to cut about 600 short-term occupations next year at still another Saxon plant in Zwickau.
Rothe stated creation staff in Dresden impacted by the shutdown must commute to Zwickau, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Dresden, where VW builds the Golf hatchback as well as the Passat sedan.
Labour representatives at Volkswagen's Porsche arm are in discussions with all the sportscar producer on providing at least a few of the temporary employees from Zwickau the potential for job at Porsche's two German websites.

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