Volkswagen to do R&D in India for global cars

Germany based automaker Volkswagen has said that they are now planning to establish their global research and development center here in India.

This center would work on development of cars for the global market.

This would be similar to how Suzuki and Honda are now developing cars in India.

Volkswagen Executive Vice-President and Member of Board Ulrich Hackenberg was speaking at the Paris Auto Show: “India has a good resource of engineering talent. We will build up our technical centre at Pune. After sometime, may be in 5-6 years time, we may have global car developed in India.”



Volkswagen Group Chairman Martin Winterkorn added: “We, as a big automobile company, constantly keep evaluating possibilities. Emerging markets, including India, are key to our expansion programme not only in cars but also in commercial vehicles.”