[DOC] [TLE] Volkswagen Westmoreland Assembly - Wikipedia [PAR] Volkswagen Westmoreland Assembly was a manufacturing complex located 35 
miles (56 km) south of Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania near 
New Stanton. The complex manufactured 1.15 million Volkswagens from 1978 
until 1987. ... Chrysler had called the facility the New Stanton plant; Volkswagen 
changed... [DOC] [TLE] Volkswagen Group of America - Wikipedia [PAR] Volkswagen Group of America, Inc is the North American operational 
headquarters, and ... The Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant was 
inaugurated on May 24, ... intense competition from American and Japanese 
automakers caused VW ... Westmoreland Assembly Plant near New Stanton, 
Pennsylvania, in 1978. [DOC] [TLE] Volkswagen - Wikipedia [PAR] Volkswagen About this sound listen (helpinfo); shortened to VW) is a German 
automaker ... The company's current international slogan is "Volkswagen". ..... 
Westmoreland Assembly Plant near New Stanton, Pennsylvania in 1978. .... VW 
began marketing the Golf under the Rabbit name once again in the U.S. and 
Canada... [DOC] [TLE] VW PAVED THE WAY FOR MANUFACTURING IN THE NEW WORLD [PAR] Jun 26, 1996 ... But VW made automotive history as the first foreign automaker to set up a ... The 
decision to build Rabbits in the United States was driven ... to assemble cars in 
1983, but the plant was never opened. ... When Westmoreland assembled its first 
production Rabbit in April 1978, it had 1,200 employees. [DOC] [TLE] When South Carolina Met BMW [PAR] Last April, the Spartanburg BMW plant rolled out 23,059 ... VW opened the first 
European car assembly plant in the United States in 1978 to build the. Rabbit. 
The effort was plagued by mechanical problems and ... international airport, 
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automaker,. [DOC] [TLE] VW, UAW look to avoid Pennsylvania missteps in Tennessee plant ... [PAR] Oct 21, 2013 ... When Volkswagen decided to open its first U.S. assembly plant in the 1970s, it 
assumed it ... How the German automaker will deal with the U.S. union today at 
its ... No Bunny," referring to their refusal to build the VW Rabbit unless they .... 
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 4: Globalization | Bureau of Transportation Statistics [PAR] Today, the transportation sector represents 11 percent of the overall U.S. Gross 
.... 1978 Volkswagen's Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, plant opens for production 
of the Volkswagen Rabbit, making it the first international automaker to build... [DOC] [TLE] Chattanooga: VW's Next Stand - Cars.com [PAR] Apr 11, 2012 ... Honda wasn't the first foreign automaker to open an assembly plant in the U.S., ... 
In 1978, German automaker Volkswagen converted an unfinished Chrysler plant 
in Westmoreland County, Pa., to build the Rabbit, but like the lost ... Volkswagen 
at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. [DOC] [TLE] Volkswagen to Shut U.S. Plant - NYTimes.com [PAR] Nov 21, 1987 ... LEAD: Volkswagen, the first foreign automobile company to build cars in the ... 
When the Pennsylvania factory was opened in 1978, Volkswagen ... VW began to 
produce Rabbit models there in April 1978, and it has since... [DOC] [TLE] Foreign Auto Plants | Good Jobs First [PAR] As the U.S. automakers downsized their domestic manufacturing operations over 
the past two decades, foreign car makers opened one U.S. assembly plant after 
another. ... States was Volkswagen, which opened a plant in Pennsylvania in 
1978. ... Mazda announced plans in 1984 to build an assembly plant in Michigan,
... [DOC] [TLE] Blind Spot: The Chattanooga Two-Step - DailyKanban [PAR] Sep 13, 2013 ... Opened in 1978, the VW Westmoreland plant was the first foreign ... was an 
object lesson to the Japanese automakers in what not to do. ... to the VW Rabbit 
built there), Toyota, Honda and Nissan opted to open ... Volkswagen's UAW 
experiment gave the American South the auto industry it enjoys today. [DOC] [TLE] Chattanooga and VW have a lot riding on Passat | Times Free Press [PAR] Jan 16, 2011 ... VW said slumping sales of its Golf hatchbacks and Rabbit cars made ... But

Question: This international automaker opened a U.S. plant in 1978 to build Rabbits
Answer: Volkswagen