Hi Kezo,
good assessment. I recall chatting to my Cathay Pacific mate about the VW factory in China. Aha he said. They just want to copy the engineering and manufacturing know-how, same as Geely with Volvo. Allegedly, bmw bought land rover to gain 4×4 expertise, then launched the X5 and sold JLR on. The British hifi industry largely made and in some cases owned, by China. The west is on a slippery slope, not helped in VAG case, by some terrible haptic switches, unlit heater sliders, poor software and unresponsive touch screens creating an ergonomic disaster. Own goals unbecoming of the brand. My Touran is built this week and being old school, avoids most of the above. Hopefully.
interesting that they have a facility in Xinjiang district. Back in the early 1990s our route to Hong Kong over Russia entered China over Xinjiang province. A very long way from any port! Home to the persecuted Uyghurs who are “encouraged” to work in the silica and silicosis plagued processing plants. Coming to the UK in a solar panel to satisfy Ed’s green agenda. To the north in Mongolia, mining and production of Neodymium for electric motors is almost as toxic. Boris’s British Volt battery factory has gone the way of his bridge to Northern Ireland. Now we cannot produce our own steel to build windmills and the grid cannot supply power for the new electric, steel recycling, furnaces at Indian owned Port Talbot, we are truly doomed. China and India have already won. Sad
