VW Expands Bratislava Factory for Bentley’s SUV

VW Group’s Bratislava factory is getting ready for the production of bodies for Bentley’s new Bentayga SUV.

The Germans are going to invest €500 million to expand the factory and add a new car-body production line at the plant where VW Group builds the VW Up, Skoda Citigo and Seat Mii triplets, next to the VW Touareg and the Audi Q7. The Slovakian factory also builds Porsche Cayenne bodies and adding the body production for Bentley’s new SUV is expected to add “hundreds of new jobs”, according to a company’s spokesman.

The raw bodies then will be shipped to Bentley’s Crewe factory for the final assembly, where the British brand is investing £40million for the expansion of their model line-up, creating 300 new jobs at the same time.

“Bratislava will build the raw bodies, everything else will be done in Crewe,” a Bentley spokesman told AutoNews.

Bentley’s target is to double their annual sales to 20,000 vehicles by 2020 and the new Bentayga SUV will play a major role in achieving this target.

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