Though no word yet has come down from Volkswagen on where the confirmed seven-passenger SUV for the U.S. market will be assembled, U.S. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee says that decision would come "in the very near future."
Detroit Free Press reports the senator couldn't put a time frame on when VW would deliver its announcement, but did believe the automaker's plans were "moving in the right direction," despite Tennessee governor Bill Haslam stating no meetings were set up between his administration and VW since the end of the tumultuous fight over the Chattanooga plant between the United Auto Workers and anti-union opposition earlier in the year.
In response, Corker proclaimed:
I think if you had that conversation with the governor today he'd give you a different response. Again, the election was just certified within the last few weeks and you know things are moving in the direction that we thought they would.
He further stated that while the plant may not be the clear winner it once may have been, he had no indication that anything else has changed.
The Haslam administration offered a $300 million subsidy to VW if it chose to build its CrossBlue Concept-based full-size SUV in Tennessee, only to withdraw the offer in January 2014 ahead of the contentious organization election at the Chattanooga facility.
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